The workshop will focus on combining digital media, drawing, and collaborative practices into large-scale video installations. Participants in the workshop will have the opportunity to experiment with various techniques for creating video footage, short looping animations, and large-scale collaborative drawings.
Students will work individually to accumulate images about Stillwater, and then Scott Kolbo will work with the group to create a video that will be projected over a large piece of paper.
The final stage of the workshop will involve drawing with charcoal and other drawing materials – resulting in a static image that interacts with the moving video projection.
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| It will end up looking something like this... |
Pre-workshop tasks (the stuff you need to do before we meet on Wednesday September 10th).
DROPBOX LINK (you should be able to use this to request permission to put things into this Dropbox folder. If you have trouble e-mail scott.kolbo (at) gmail.com).
You need to do a bit of work before we meet in person. This project will be a highly collaborative (team based) adventure, so you will need to manage your artistic ego a bit and be prepared to let other people mess with your work. This means you shouldn't offer up anything that you are overly attached to, and you can't be offended if we don't use it! I think you will find that the collaborative process uncovers surprising things that you would not have thought of by yourself, and sometimes it can be a great way to unlock creative solutions. If nothing else it will be interesting... so don't worry about it being some lame "team building" activity that leaves you feeling uncomfortable and exploited. The project we created in Taos surprised all of us and I think everyone learned something useful from it.
...So I need you to spend some time looking around Stillwater and thinking about the following themes:
PLACE: Natural Environment + Human Environment = Intersections. How does the natural world that surrounds OSU intersect with the human built things that you see? Where do those things contrast with each other? Where do these things compliment or clash with each other?
PEOPLE: What are the various cultural interactions in Stillwater? How does the natural environment influence how the people around you live? How does the human-made environment impact how people act in the world?
Once you have reflected on these themes for a while start making things that we might be able to use in our video. You will post your "components" to a Drobox folder and I will create a video out of what you submit (in consultation with the group once I arrive on campus). We will project this video over a large piece of paper and draw collaboratively together to complete the work.
Possible "components" you could create:
Looping Animated Elements: Check out this tutorial on how to make a bird with flapping wings. Create a 12 frame looping animation in photoshop and submit it - we can make these things move around or just leave them in one place in the final video. If you know how to do other animated technical things feel free to go for it, just keep in mind that we will need to make this footage fade in and out, change scale, loop, etc... SUBMIT as PSD or small Quicktime (H264) files.
Still Images: Identify landscapes or “backgrounds” that we could use. These could just be quick images captured with your camera phone, video footage of scenery or objects (again - it's really important that the camera stays in one place), or scanned drawings you have created. SUBMIT as JPEG images (1200 Pixels wide should be plenty).
On-Campus Activities.
Scott Kolbo will assemble a rough cut of a video using the "components" that are posted to the Dropbox folder. On Wednesday Sept. 10th we will gather for the introduction to the project. Kolbo will show students a rough cut of the video and we will decide as a group what changes to make.
Looping Animated Elements: Check out this tutorial on how to make a bird with flapping wings. Create a 12 frame looping animation in photoshop and submit it - we can make these things move around or just leave them in one place in the final video. If you know how to do other animated technical things feel free to go for it, just keep in mind that we will need to make this footage fade in and out, change scale, loop, etc... SUBMIT as PSD or small Quicktime (H264) files.
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| Actors filmed against a white/blank background |
Live Action Footage: Think about “characters” or scenarios that might be acted out in front of white/blank background. You MUST keep the camera in one place if you choose to do this (on a tripod - no zooming in and out or anything fancy). Just set up the camera and do something in front of it. It's a good idea to keep these short and simple. Slow movements are often best, and if your characters wind up in the same pose that they started with it can really help - or if they walk in and out of the frame. SUBMIT as small Quicktime (H264) files.
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| This box was photographed and added to the video. Also see the landscapes in the background of the Taos project. |
On-Campus Activities.
Scott Kolbo will assemble a rough cut of a video using the "components" that are posted to the Dropbox folder. On Wednesday Sept. 10th we will gather for the introduction to the project. Kolbo will show students a rough cut of the video and we will decide as a group what changes to make.
Kolbo will work on making changes to the video and the group will meet on Friday Sept. 12th to see the final version of the video projected on a large piece of blank paper. We will then work collaboratively to draw static imagery that interacts with the moving images.
This "Stillwater" drawing will be on display next to the "Taos" drawing that was completed by OSU students in the summer of 2014.
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| The video and drawing will end up doing something like this. Clip from the Taos Project |
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