look at ebay, one man's trash is another man's treasure. i think it is good for the old to learn from the young and vice versa. it is a negotiation. That is teaching, not one way. That is constructivist theory and I think it fits right well with experimental philosophies of filmmaking.
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:25 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > This is what I do / did for semester one. Project one:one week, one > minute, one shot, no sound. Project two: one week, two shots, and so on > (including, or not, shot one from the previous project, building up to more > complex structures. Drawing on film early on in the semester. A B&W > project etc. > > Years ago, on the Time Based Media course founded by David Hall at KIAD > Maidstone (UK), we used to have the students make no-technology time-based > work before they got their hands on camcorders. This generally meant > performance, a walk-through environment, sometimes a crawl through > environment, > eg, where the spectator had to crawl through a tunnel made of cardboard > boxes whiles they were subjected to human-generated effects from outside > the tunnel, or an object that could only be seen in a series of > successive moves etc. Worked well. > > Nicky. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Knecht <[email protected]> > To: Experimental Film Discussion List <[email protected]> > Sent: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 20:39 > Subject: Re: [Frameworks] query for those who teach filmmaking > > > Tim, > > I would hold their first projects to one minute in length. Talk to them > up front about each frame being "precious". Hold them responsible for what > they shoot. Talk to them about light, color, motion (the camera moving and > what is being shot as moving). Keep it extraordinarily essential. If they > can learn to appreciate the shot that they are making, if they can think > about composition, color, and the semiotic system within each framed > rectangle, then they will be able someday to make any kind of film; > narrative, doc, or strictly formal. Forget this "story telling" stuff. > That is something else. Teach them about light and motion. You will then > have empowered them to use a cinematic tool to convey the content of what > ever it is that they want to say to the world. Then they can tell their > stories if they have something to say. > > > jk > > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Tim Halloran <[email protected]>wrote: > >> But with our students it actually is "speed" that's killing creativity, >> as they become more and more acclimated to working "fast"--digital cameras, >> digital editing systems, etc. Ah, it's just terrible--so much junk. >> >> Shoot slow, edit slow, experience slow. ;] >> >> Tim >> >> ------------------------------ >> From: [email protected] >> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:29:52 -0700 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] query for those who teach filmmaking >> >> On Apr 18, 2014, at 15:26 , Tim Halloran <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Slow=bad?! >> >> Bah. >> >> Tim >> >> >> It's nice to work slowly if you are trying to do so; it's insanely >> annoying if you are not. >> >> Imagine if a painter put a stroke on the canvas and couldn't see it for >> 30 seconds afterwards. Not too many painters are striving to achieve that >> workflow. >> >> ;-) >> >> -- >> ** WHERE'S MY ARTICLE, WORLD?* http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Flick_Harrison >> >> ** FLICK's WEBSITE: * >> http://www.flickharrison.com >> [image: Zero for Conduct]<http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ZeroForConduct/~6/2> >> ↑ Grab this Headline >> Animator<http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/headlineanimator/install?id=90rffbei3nr88m9ci3u0qr9d14&w=2> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Apr 18, 2014, at 1:16 PM, "Flick Harrison" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> ...will sloooooow you down, and that's bad creatively... >> >> - Flick >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> >> > > > -- > John Knecht, Russell Colgate Distinguished > University Professor of Art and Art History > and Film and Media Studies > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing > [email protected]https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > >
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