Independent Study for Week 6

• Write 100 words about an architectural premise that you pull from your original concept of 'Fence'.


• Be inventive, and concise in your wording, essentially creating an architectural theoretical position based on the ideas you formulated in assignment 1.


• Find a song that you would like to use as the basis of your video clip.


• Bring headphones to class next week so you can hear your music.

Week 5 Studio Task

• Peer Review: Pair up with another student and review their work for Assignment 1.


• You can find the Assignment 1, Peer review .doc at:
  //emustore/Resources/samples/benv/BENV2402 Time based Visualization - Harkins/Peer Review forms/


• Submit the Peer Review, with the Reviewers name and student number to:
  //emustore/Submit/BENV2402 Time based Visualization - Harkins/Peer Review 1/


• Also post the review done on your work to your blog as an image.


• Install Resolume from the install file at:
  //emustore/Resources/samples/benv/BENV2402 Time based Visualization - Harkins/Resources


• Use 3D Studio Max to continue making footage for your music video.


• Group up with one or two other people, and share your media files with each other.


• Play with resolume, and your videos from the first assignment, using the Resolume manual at:
  http://www.resolume.com/support/manual/index.html#mjpeg

Independent Study for Week 5

• Assignment 1 Due Monday 25th August at Midnight!

Hand in Requirements

• BLOG


• 50 WORDS HIGHLIGHTING YOUR THEORETICAL STANPOINT ON A THEME RELATING TO ‘FENCE’


• 15 IMAGES SUPPORTING YOUR VIEW OF ‘FENCE’


• 7 VIDEOS OF HIGHLIGHTING MAX SKILLS, AND ELEMENTS OF ‘FENCE;


• 1 STORY BOARD SHOWING A ROUGH OUTLINE OF THE PROGRESSION OF YOUR FINAL VIDEO


• 1 EDITED VIDEO COMBINING YOUR GATHERED MEDIA INTO A SINGLE ‘MOVIE’ of 60 seconds in length

Next Week

• Check back here over the next couple of days so you can see what is required for next week's class. The beginning of Assignment 2!

Week 4 Studio Task

• Work on your blogs, making sure they are up to date with all of the required content!


• Get your tutor (either me or Daniel) to make sue that your blog is linked into the course blog, so that your wok can be marked.


• If you haven't finished your task from last week (creating test videos using video editing software, do that today!


• Be sure to get either Daniel or I to look through you blog, giving feedback on where we think your work may be improved.


• Refine video editing techniques that you have practiced, so you can make a smooth video for your first assignment

Independent Study for Week 4

Since there has been an extension on Assignment 1 to 9am Monday 25th August, I would like you to:


• Experiment with video editing software over the next week.


• Find a short clip from the net (eg: from Youtube), that displays a technique or atmosphere that you would like to convey in your own video.


• Using your storyboard as a basis, tie your created clips together, to start defining a narrative to convey your concept of 'Fence'.


• Make a few test videos, using video editing techniques.

Week 3 Studio Task

• Continue to make videos, and gather images relating to your concept, using Max.


• Test more of the tools and modifiers available to you in Max.


• Explore the tools available to you in video editing software like Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere Pro, or Final Cut for Mac users.


• Using video editing techniques, experiment with your created videos from 3Ds Max.


• There is a trial version of Sony Vegas in the samples folder (\\emustore\Resources\samples\benv\BENV2402 Time based Visualization - Harkins\Resources on emustore

Aversis

Here's a link to a very handy site with tutorials, examples, and all things realated to 3D Studio Max and visualisation.

www.aversis.be

Independent Study for Week 3

• Draw a story board for your animation for Assignment 1.


• Scan it in and post it on your blog.


• Create 5 videos between 10-15 seconds long, exploring further the ideas of ‘Fence’.


• Upload to Youtube, and post to your blog.

Week 2 Studio Task

• Experiment animating materials with the 15 images you have gathered relating to your concept of 'Fence'.


• Test a minimum of 3 Modifiers on objects that you have created from the 'Create' tab.


• Make sure to keep all of the videos that you make, even if you think they are no good. They can be used for source material in the video editing process.

Independent Study for Week 2

• Create a blog for the course using blogger


• Name the blog:
  
  yournameBENV2402.blogspot.com
  
  Or
  
  yournameBENV7143.blogspot.com


• Write 50 words which pull out a theoretical context relating to ‘Fence’.


• Gather a minimum of 15 images relating to your text


• Create 2 short (no longer than 10 second animations).


• Post everything to your blog

Week 1 Tutorial Task

To be completed during Lab

• Complete simple tutorials from the link on the BENV2402/7143 Time-Based Visualisation 'Courses on the Web' page.


• Explore the 'Create', 'Modify', and 'Modifier' tools in Max.


• Explore the 'Animation' features, using the 'Auto Key' tool.

Welcome to Time-Based Visualisation

This is the Course Blog for Time based visualisation. Use the links on the side to navigate to students blogs within the course.

This elective will align process based design techniques with time based 3D digital environments. It extends digital visualisation skills by introducing sequencing and storyboards to digital environments.