new: Final Assignment
Apparently, Wednesday is a great day. It's all downhill after.
that's why they call it
hump day
This Wednesday, April 14, at 5:30, students of Achimescu's intermediate and advanced Digital Art classes will show their work in Fayerweather Hall.
In case you did not see us on Channel 13 yet, here is the brief:
In the course of this academic year all of us (students and teacher) reached out of the Department to the Charlottesville Public Access TV. We took courses in TV production and worked (as volunteers) on various sets, ranging from cooking shows to teleevangelist-style ones. As a result, every single one of the students got certified as a TV producer.
But the main offspring of this work is a Reality TV show, airing Wednesdays at midnight and Thursdays at 10PM. This show, recently reaching episode 4 (5 is in the works) is called
nothingatall
Make no mistake, this is a really dumb thing. In that sense, it follows a canon: all reality TV is dumb.
Public Access TV’s director Cal Tate is extremely helpful, supportive and happy to work with us. The only previous initiative of this sort coming out of UVA has gone belly-up a while ago (maybe because it did not come out of the Studio Art program!). To us, the main excitement is to have a show that is actually airing in the community, rather than being confined to UVA intramural channels.
As part of the project, Prof. Frances Myers and students of the University Wisconsin in Madison participated with video shooting and editing as well as printing one hundred DVD booklets and labels for our limited edition publication.
Come and see us this Wednesday in Fayerweather. Refreshments. No entry fee. Good company. Bald people.
For you info-hungry, tech heads hiding out there:
We shot using Canon GL1 miniDV cameras in studio setting (lights, backdrops, gels, lav and boom microphones, stage directing closed-circuit sound system)
We edited in two standards:
Online editing system consisted of 3 analog video feeds through a multichannel switcher, up to 4 sound lines, mixer, titling machine. The setup requires simultaneous coordinated work by up to 7 people not including the talent (2 to 3 on the cameras, 2 to 3 in the control room, floor director).
Offline editing was done mostly on Macintosh G4’s. The partial list of software used includes: Apple Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express, iMovie, Adobe Photoshop, AfterEffects, Amadeus.
Tasha Byers, Lin Qiu and Bogdan Achimescu in particular consider themselves victims of the ALCD (Adobe Learning Curve of Damnation).
Additional work (from t-shirt design to TV promos and DVD labels) was done in Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Powerpoint.
The final (distribution) DVD will be mastered in Apple iDVD.
If you think this is not enough software, let us know, we think we can find some time to learn Internet Explorer. :-)
Humpday Soiree 2004 imminent!!!
Wednesday the 14th, 5:30.
What is Humpday Soiree???? nothingatall, ma'am, nothingatall!
Diane is the Humpday Manager: check with Mr. Bennett for space availability (Fayerweather) and with Mr. Schmit for projector. Melissa, Kim, Rupa are on the Hump Committee as well.
Information about scheduling:
We now have two weekly slots on Channel 13. Our two broadcasting time slots are Wednesday midnight and Thursday 10PM. As soon as we have the next episode (hopefully on Monday), we can start airing weekly.
assignment 07 (after spring break stuff)
assignment 06 (spring break stuff)
nothingatall - our class project script