Week 12 Lab Tasks

• As of today you should all have:
  
  
  
  • a 150 word summary of your first 2 assignments.
  
  
  • your 10 words (drawn from your summary)
  
  
  • a single word which will drive your video, concentrating on an idea of movement.
  
  
  • an overall idea for your video/environment.
  
  
  • a 20 second clip for each word (10 clips), showing aspects of your built environment.
  
  
  • IMPORTANT!---a storyboard with a minimum of 16 panels to highlight interesting moments in your proposed final video.---IMPORTANT!
  
  
  • an idea of what music and video editing techniques you would like to use to support the mood of your final video.
  
  
  
  


• Keep refining your models, clips and concepts, aiming towards a final cohesive 3-5 minute video.


• Get your tutor to comment on your storyboard, and refine your final narrative to visually capture the concepts you have proposed.


• Log into MyUNSW, and fill out the CATEI feedback forms for the course. Be nice!

Independant Study for Week 12

• Create the final two required clips of your 10 words. You may still want to add extra clips in as you should have a fairly complex model of your built environment at this stage, and there may be aspects now apparent that weren't before that you would like to capture in your final video. Post all work to your blog.


• Draw a storyboard with a minimum of 16 panels to highlight interesting moments in your proposed final video. These should be considered well drawn pieces of art in their own right. Post it to your blog.


• Start thinking about music, or sound effects that you would like to use in your final clip, that help to support your ideas.


• Also start considering video editing techniques that you will use to start tieing everything together into a coherent cinematic visualisation that captures your themes and concepts. Remember to think as a director.


• This should be a fairly fluid process. As you define the narrative of your final video, you may find you need to go back and redo, or create extra clips of your models to support your themes, and storyboard.

Week 11 Lab Task

• Get your tutor to read through your words and look at your concept for your built environment.


• Take one of your ten words which has an aspect of motion incorporated into its definition. Concentrate on this word as the main theme of your animations. If you would like, you can use this as a working title for your final cinematic visualisation. To think deeper about this process, you may consider your ten words, and come up with a 'new' word or theme that runs through all of your ideas as a tieing together factor to draw your animations together cohesively. Post the word to your blog.


• Create 5 more clips (one each, for 5 more of your ten words, bringing your total to 8 clips) modelling a visual aspect of these words, again, to a fair level of geometric complexity, with a relationship back to structure, or the built form you have decided on. This will include texturing your objects extensively. Post them to your blog.


• Most of the modelling that you should be achieving for these words should aim at being in one conceptual max file, leading towards a complete built environment.


• As you are undertaking your modelling tasks, and considering the short clip individual animations for each word, start to think about an overall storyboard for your final video, considering your themes and progression of your video. ie. a beginning an end, and a narrative.


• If you are looking for textures for your models, you can use the collection of images you have gathered for the course in the first two assignments, as well as considering using your short clips you have created in the first two assignments as textures. (Using a .avi in the defuse map channel of your materials.)

Independent Study for Week 11

• For Thursday's class, I would like you to have a concept for your built Environment. Base this on your reflections from Assignments 1 and 2, and the 10 words that you have drawn out from your ideas.


• You will already have made 3x20 second videos that should help you start thinking about a built form, structure or urban Environment.


• Your concept can take the form of rough sketches that will help you define the rest of your videos, or a short piece of writing that details your ideas for what the rest of your modelling will roughly look like.


• In Thursday's class, we can start to think about how your animations will help to support your concepts.

Week 10 Lab Task

Since I only got the tasks out for this weeks class a few days ago, I will add them to the tasks for today's lab.

• Get your blogs up to date! Before the start of Assignment 3!


• Write 150 words reflecting on the concepts you have developed in your writing for Assignments 1 and 2, as well as the modelling techniques you have discovered.


• Concentrate on formulating concise language, being sure to use descriptive words that describe the themes and techniques that have been explored, and the relationships created between your modelling development and theoretical concepts.

After you have got your blogs completelyup to date, then you can move on with the tasks for today.

• From your 150 word reflection (and concepts derived from Assignments 1 and 2), formulate a list of 10 words, that display either an emotive connection with your concepts, or an aspect of the "built" form that can be drawn from your ideas.


• Post these 10 words to your blog.


• Before you start on this project, you may want to think about what type of built environment you would like to create. It should have a strong founding in the themes and concepts you have created so far, during this course.


• Model a visual aspect of three of these words, chosen at random, to a fair level of geometric complexity, with a relationship back to structure, or the built form. This will include texturing your objects. You will be making a video for each of these words, so it doesn't matter which you choose at this stage.


• Create three 20 second clips in Max, based on the three words you chose to model an aspect of.


• Do all of this in a single Max file.


• If you are struggling with your concept ask me, or Daniel for help. If you are really struggling, you can start with the city model as an example, and build your ideas around the city. I believe most of you should be able to avoid this approach, but it may help in giving you a starting point.


• The city model of Sydney can be found at:
  \\emustore\Resources\samples\benv\BENV2402 Time based Visualization - Harkins\Assignment 3 Resources

Independent Study for Week 10

I hope you enjoyed your Session break, managed to have a good rest and are ready for four to five weeks of intensive work!!!

Assignment 3 is now available in the samples folder for this course at ://emustore/Resources/samples/benv/BENV2402 Time based Visualization - Harkins/Resources/briefs
as well as on 'Courses on the Web' for BENV2402/7143 Time-Based Visualisation.

It has become apparent that a lot of you have fallen behind considerably on keeping your blogs up to date! So for Thursday's lab, please upload all your work form Assignment 1 and 2 to your blogs!

This includes your 50 and 100 words of writing for each Assignment. Images for each Assignment, your short clips from each Assignment, and your final animations from each Assignment. If you are unsure of what was required to be on your blog, look back through the blog posts for this course, as well as the marking schedules for each Assignment.

For Thursday

• Get your blogs up to date! Before the start of Assignment 3!


• Write 150 words reflecting on the concepts you have developed in your writing for Assignments 1 and 2, as well as the modelling techniques you have discovered.


• Concentrate on formulating concise language, being sure to use descriptive words that describe the themes and techniques that have been explored, and the relationships created between your modelling and theoretical concepts.