EXPANDED MOMENT
Students should note that this is a sample assignment. Instructors may alter its contents, and referring to the materials given directly by the instructor will always be the most accurate.
OBJECTIVES
- Become familiar with the difference and relationship between subject, form and context in a time-based artwork.
- Analyze the relationship between 2d Design concepts and time-based work.
Henri Cartier-Bresson,
Sale of Gold in the Last Days of the Kuomintang, Shanghai, China
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Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ireland, 1963
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THE ASSIGNMENT
The Assignment:
For this project you will take three videos without sound of a single framed shot (a fixed camera position). The video needs to show the passage of time. Each single frame video must be one minute in length. Importantly, the videos need to avoid cliché.
Each of three videos need to focus on an isolated component of art making. The first video needs to focus on the Subject, the second the Form, the third Context. You must write three 250-word essays describing how the video you made relates to the corresponding category. Turn in the essays alongside your video work.
For the video that focuses on Subject, spend time considering the best way to frame that subject. If the subject is a person, should the video show a close up of that individual, if so how close? What should that person wear, or hold? If the subject is a river, the outside of a restaurant, or a mountain, what particular camera angle will captivate that subject in the most compelling way? Remember the video needs to show the passage of time, so you want some form of movement in the video. Here are the specific parameters:
Watch clips from the below silent films. Silent Films, like the expanded moment videos have to accomplish visual story telling without the narration of voice.
The Assignment:
For this project you will take three videos without sound of a single framed shot (a fixed camera position). The video needs to show the passage of time. Each single frame video must be one minute in length. Importantly, the videos need to avoid cliché.
Each of three videos need to focus on an isolated component of art making. The first video needs to focus on the Subject, the second the Form, the third Context. You must write three 250-word essays describing how the video you made relates to the corresponding category. Turn in the essays alongside your video work.
For the video that focuses on Subject, spend time considering the best way to frame that subject. If the subject is a person, should the video show a close up of that individual, if so how close? What should that person wear, or hold? If the subject is a river, the outside of a restaurant, or a mountain, what particular camera angle will captivate that subject in the most compelling way? Remember the video needs to show the passage of time, so you want some form of movement in the video. Here are the specific parameters:
- Each of the three videos need to be one minute in length.
- There should be no sound in video.
- You may use a smartphone, or check out a digital camera at the VRC.
- The video should be fixed with no camera movement. Ideally, you use a tripod.
- The video should contain no edits.
Watch clips from the below silent films. Silent Films, like the expanded moment videos have to accomplish visual story telling without the narration of voice.
- – City Lights, Charlie Chaplin
- – Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage Dans la Lune), Georges Méliès
- – Metropolis, City Scene, Clock Scene, Maria's Transformation, Fritz Lang
VOCABULARY
- Subject
- Form
- Context
- Composition
- Point of View
- Setting
This project was inspired by the PBS Series “The Art Assignment”.
