PURPOSE

To explore how text can function in relation to image and sound, producing new relationships - formal/rhythmic, pictorial/compositional, symbolic/semantic, spatial - between sound, image, word.

ASSIGNMENT

Choose an existing text, and create a "reading" of it through video/image, sound, and graphical type. Your resulting video should last around a minute, and should be exported as a quicktime movie in full quality dv format. Bring your finished project to class on your lacie drive or burned on a DVD.

You may use sounds from any source you like, but use video solely from found or pre-recorded VHS or DVD sources.

You may do as much or as little editing as you like.

Your work should possess images or video, sound and type at all times, in simultaneity. Consider the construction of your piece as a 3-layered project - sound, image and type.

Your images should establish specific and intentional relationships to the words and sounds, and may include pictures of text or found words.

The three layers will likely come in and out of synthesis - for example, we might hear a word spoken at the same time we see the word printed over top of an image clearly associated with the word, creating emphasis - but we might often see jarring juxtapositions as well - a given word in your original text for example, may not ever literally appear in the video, but would instead be heard, or seen pictured.

TECH

Your images and sound will be constructed using the same techniques we've already seen.

You may use transitions and transparency, but no animated type.

There are a number of ways to get type into your movie.

1 - use a title effect and just pause it long enough to never animate
2 - use a title effect and edit out want you don't want
3 - to apply multiple titles, export as quicktime, reimport.
4 - extract a still - add titles to it, and reimport it.
5 - create a still in photoshop with text, import it.
6 - (advanced) create a photoshop image with an alpha channel and add it to a quicktime movie.