FIELD TRIP TONIGHT!

A reminder that we are having our field trip tonight!

Let's meet at 5:45 at the MIT List Visual Arts Center.

We'll be done by 7.

See you soon.

Find a good movie, take a drink and enjooy!

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Enjoy (1:12)

Brushing my teeth

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A typical night before bed.

making green pea pudding

A short instructional video on how to make green pea pudding. It's delicious.

This and That

When posting your videos, can you include the tag "video_assignment"? That way we can group them all together!

Also -- tonight (Fri.) is the Graduate Reception for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Faculty Club. Note: the notice that went out said 250 Columbus Avenue, but it's actually 716 Columbus Avenue.

How To Change A Bicycle Tube

A Brief Instructional Video on how to change a Bicycle Tube shot on a web cam (01:45)

Tigger's Insulin Cycle

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A demo of how I administer insulin to my diabetic cat Tigger

Assignment for November 29

1. Post your compressed video assignment and cross-post to this blog.

2. Research a genre/topic/example of time-based media that we've not looked at yet -- post your findings as a comment in THIS post.

3. Meet at 6pm at the MIT List Visual Arts Center (if possible arrive at 5:45 pm, please). We'll wrap up by 7.

4. Have an enjoyable and safe Thanksgiving!

How to make instant noodles

A short video of the process for cooking instant noodles. Mmm yum. (00:90)

Finding the keys....should be a simple task....

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for most of people...

Making Coffee

80sec- Making coffee with an Aeropress

Engin's Project

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A how-to-instructional video showing an interview question with dangerous consequences. (00:18)

How to Put in Contacts

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A short instructional video on how to put in contacts for class DM3225 (02:53)

4x4 Burger 11/14

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4 minute by 4 minute burger cooked by Steve Feiven at the Hurricaine in Marblehead MA  

On the subject of Video Cameras

Some thoughts on different video camera choices, as passed on through Wired's Test issue.

Also, some hard drive video-based cameras: Flip Video and the Wall Street Journal's reactions on it.

WNYC's Radio Lab

This is a great podcast that really covers a lot of diverse, interesting topics.  Here is the main site, and the direct iTunes link is here.

The episode I'd encourage you to download is entitled "Making Radio Lab," which has some fantastic examples of sound editing.

The Remix Tour

in case anybody interested in.
http://www.apple.com/education/tours/

Assignment for November 15

1. Capture and edit your footage into a final edit (preferably in iMovie, though you can use other programs if you let me know about it). Remember you can add animations to it!

2. Explore adding audio to your piece if you don't have any audio in the piece (of if you want to add some).

3. Output your movie into a compressed format (A good standard size is 320 pixels wide by 240 pixels high -- for wide-screen consider, 480 by 270).

4. Bring on a USB or burn on a CD to bring into class. Don't post it yet! We'll look at them and look at posting options on Thursday.

Don't forget...

Ravi - Don't forget to post the assignment!

Dangers of Flash

Be aware, this may happen to you if you attempt too much while animating in Flash.

Assignment for November 8

1. Post your simple task as comment on blog.

2. Storyboard your "simple task" w/ identifiers.

3. Create a shot list.

4. Shoot shots (w/ "slates" aka wipeboard text).

5. Bring camera and footage to class.

Types of camera shots

http://www.mediacollege.com/video/shots/