Mid Term Part 2

1. Are you glad you signed up for this class?

I am very happy I signed up for this class. Doc Chris teaches in a way that not only motivates his students but allows for one to have fun while learning. I personally think this is a great stratergy because it allows for a variety of learning types to grasp a good understanding of this course. This is clear because in my group we all learn differently and because of Doc Chris's teaching, interacting and motivation skills is work applies to us all.  Also I have had three hour classes in the past and to speak for myself and some of my classmates it is hard to pay attention to your teacher the entire time. However, with Doc Chris class seems to go by way faster and I am involved with what we are learning or doing in class. Doc Chris also teaches us how to work on one thing in a verity of ways. I really admire this because I am learning a lot more this way. I am very happy to be in this class. It is more than what I had expected and I appreciate every moment of it.

    

2. What did you learn that you did not know before coming into this class?

Before coming to this class I did not know much about any other website other than google search and facebook. Sad but true. After the first week of Doc Chris class he assigned for us all to have twitter, facebook, blogger and google plus accounts. With all these accounts he thought us how to connect and really take advantage of these sites and just being able to adjacent technologically. Also I learned about the idfferent types of liginting. Light is something we have in our everyday life and can sometimes take forgranted. I never knew that lighting had types. In class we learned about
KEY LIGHT
- Key light functions as the main source of illumination for ones scene.
- 45 degree angle from where the camera is a safe spot to set up the key light
FILL LIGHT
- Also 45 degrees from the camera... and the key light.
- Less in tense than the key light
BACK LIGHT
- Helps subject pop out
-Set up so the light is above the frame
- Low intesity
-Shine down on the subject to create a rim of light around the shoulders and head
  

We still have more to learn and cannot wait for what is next.  

3. Evaluate your group's performance, your own personal growth in this course and please give your opinion of this class.

My group in the beginning had a very hard time  communicating. However as time went on we got better at this one aspect. As a group we figured out ways in which to divide the assignments and put them together while demonstrating flow and proper understanding. Joyce and I work well as leaders of the group and we reach out to our group members to help and motivate them.
 

4. Hows the structure of the class? The professor?
  The structure of the class is well put together and positive. Doc Chris really knows how to keep our attention in a three hour class. Every class session I leave learning numerous new things. At first using the bombarded amount of new social media was tough however, Doc Chris worked to help us understand and take advantage of all the technological discoveries that are available to us. As a professor Doc Chris is well rounded in this field and knows what he is doing. He is overall a great professor.
   

Mid Term

                                                                          

First of all I would like to begin by saying this video to the right defines the great connection between the students and Doc Chris. His eagerness to teach and how he enlightens us with his intelligence is demonstrated in this course. This class is called Introduction to Multi-Media. And this project is about Sight, Sound and Motion. Watch this video and see a clear example of these as Doc Chris demonstrates.

 

                                                                                                                                                                    

                          This video was taken during this summer at Disney World.
                          I visited Disney with my family and during one of the Disney 
                          parades the lighting was so well done. As you can see from
                          the video there is a variation of lights, by its colors, brightness 
                         and size. Along with the amazing lights are sounds. You hear
                         the sounds of the people in the crowds and also the music of 
                         the bands. The show at Disney was amazing. The lights music, 
                        along with the story really grasped the crowd's attention. I love 
                        Disney. Take a look and see the great, Sights, Sounds and Motions 
                         in this video.

                                                                                                                                                         

                   

                                             This next video has no sight nor motion, and 
                                             I filmed this purposely because I wanted it to
                                             be a Sound video. Part of this assignment is
                                             to create a blog demonstrating Sight, Sound
                                             and Motion through videos and images.
                                             Listen to the video and try to guess what
                                             it is. Its the vent on the streets and here I
                                             am pulling my suit case around 6:30 am in
                                             Washington DC walking to my train. Below
                                             these vents are the train stations. The Sound
                                             is very loud and rumbles.

                                                                                                                                                                  
Another Sound video is the one my group and I composed. Here, Gina is creating sound through her voice. There are also Sights such as the green trees, volleyball pit. blue sky, and building. Also we have Motion. The people moving around.

                                                                                                                                                   

This is a picture of my little brother and I. When looking at this picture there is a lot of natural lighting. The color of the sun really brightens and enhances the color of the tree and sky. You can't tell because of the flash and light contrasting but behind us is a beautiful hilltop view of the ocean and cliffs. Great Sight.

Here is another example of Motion. This summer I wanted to paddle board. And went to a private beach where there weren't a lot of people around so that I could have space and enjoy the beautiful view, smell and Sound of the ocean. Here there is variety of Motions going on. 

1. The waves 

2. Me paddling

3. The board moving

Though this is a still shot, theses are all the movements that occurred during my time paddling boarding. 

 

In this image both the Sight and Motion is very interesting. I was on a lake just canoeing and relaxing during a beautiful summer day with my family.  Sight- The natural lighting reflects well on the water and branches. Lighting is very important to see the true beauty of this image because at night one would not be able to see such and amazing view. Also depending on the time of the year the lighting also varies. Motion- Again the small waves in the ocean shows Motion and the movement of the canoe which is hard to see 

because this is a still image.

 

This image is of my baby cousin dressed up as Bella from Beauty 

And The Beast. By moving her wand back and forth she is

demonstrating Motion.

  

 In this Image my friends and I built a pyramid. Sight, and Motion can be found here. 

Motion- Us trying to bulid the prymid. Some people moving. And many are in mid motion

Sight- The different colors of clothing, the grass and buildings. 

Reflection for 9/29/11

What did we learn today?

Today in class class we did presentations and learned about The Extended First Field: Color, Structure Color: Function and Composition, and The Tow-dimensional Field: Area.

What do you think about the direction of the class? 
The direction of the class is going very well. Everything is coming to together and moving in a very good speed.

What would you like to do more of to improve the class?
I am a little confused on some assignment but now that we have a syllabus I think things will work out better.

How did your group work together today?
My group and I worked very well today.We worked on making videos and presenting out chapter outline to the class. Our outline reflected our hard work.

How did you grow as an individual?
As an individual I think I continue to grow because I am very helpful and want for as a group for us all to excel.  

How did Dr. Chris perform today? Specifically, did he work to resolve any problems that you had as a group or individually, did he answer any questions that you had and did he get the information across to you?

Dr Chris as usual always makes class very entertaining. When doing this I have more of a passion for learning. He keeps the class very interested in what he has to teach. 


 This is Joyce take on today's class

Three Point Lighting Tutorial And Anylasis

Above is a very interesting, descriptive and educational video about three point lighting.
- Three point lighting illustrates important lighting concepts that is very important
- The main point is to get even distribution of light
- Therefore three types of lighting is "key" to this process. 
              - Key Lighting 
              - Fill Lighting 
              - Back Lighting 

KEY LIGHT
- Key light functions as the main source of illumination for ones scene.
- 45 degree angle from where the camera is a safe spot to set up the key light


FILL LIGHT
- Also 45 degrees from the camera... and the key light.
- Less in tense than the key light


BACK LIGHT
- Helps subject pop out
-Set up so the light is above the frame
- Low intesity
-Shine down on the subject to create a rim of light around the shoulders and head

The video demonstrates how important having proper lighting is.

Enjoy!

Chapter 4 Summary The Extended First Field: Color

Chapter 4: The Extended First Field Color

Our observe color through the lens of our eye. It reflects the colors we see in our everyday life whether it’s in our home, our environment, in objects and people. 

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WHAT IS COLOR?
Color is the property of light, not of objects or liquids. (pg. 53)
The eye receives light of wavelength,
It reflects off objects transmitting through fluids.
White light is a reading lamp or the sun that is divided by a prism.
It is a rainbow color of red and purple that is called a spectral colors of wavelength
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HOW WE PERCEIVE COLOR
Basic Physiological factors
The lens of the eye focuses light on the light-sensitive cells of the retina which is a combination of cones and rods.
Rod and Cone are movement to the light in different ways
Cones need More light to fire than rod
One group is sensitive to the short waves that makes up blues
Second group responds to a medium waves of green
Third to a long wave of the red end of the spectrum

Basically the colors are mixture of wavelengths and the groups are action of bright lights. The cones fire its own signal that results in a high resolution image of color.

The rods do not respond equally across the color spectrum and are, for all practical purposes, colorblind.
Jump to action I gets dark
cones give up lack of adequate light
You don’t see color in dim light but things around you
Rod gives low illumination to deliver a strong signal for the brain to process. You see cones of fuzzy images that fires separately

Before the brain can make us see color, or adapt our vision to a certain level of darkness, the cones and rods must send their signals to neurons, which process the signals and code them into simpler ones. See 4.1 Color Perception


BASIC AESTHETIC PERCEPTION FACTORS

When we look at colored objects, we can detect three basic color sensations:
The color itself—red, green, or blue; the color strength—whether a red is deep and undiluted or looks faded and washed out; and how light or dark it appears to us.
These three basic color sensations we call color attributions. (pg 55)

Color attribute: hue: the Hue is a rainbow of different colors around us.
The hue helps you clarify colors
Colors of the spectrum are pure hues (
Most colors we see are impure (washed out)

Whole color is based on only four hues: Red, Yellow, Green and Blue
See color plates 2 and 3 next to page 54

 CP2 

CP3
(Sight Sound Motion)

All colors are computer or television screen created with only three hue colors from RGB which are: RED, YELLOW, GREEN and BLUE 

The computer displays different single one of these color combinations you could recognize it and tell whether it was bluish, reddish, greenish, or yellowish, light or dark.
The Color Palette, See CP8 Color Models

 CP8

(Sight Sound Motion)

Color attribute: Saturation, sometimes called chroma (a Greek name,) is a strength or purity of color. It is a highly saturated color looks rich; a color with low saturation looks wash out.
SEE COLOR PLATED 4, 5, and 6

(Sight Sound Motion)

COLOR ATTRIBUTE BRIGHTNESS: See Color Plate 7

(Sight Sound Motion)

GRAYSCALE
Black and white, or monochrome, video or film shows only achromatic colors which are various steps of brightness. These are steps are created by grayscale steps. There are different variations of gray ranging between white and black.

You can see a shadow not as uniformly dark but in various degrees of transparency.
It’s a light area that displays more of a differentiated bright area into an overexposed white area.

The video camera and a monitor deliver several measuring grayscale.
Video:
work with nine or 12 brightness, or grayscale
television white (a little off white) and television black (not pitch black)
Good Video camera delivers more brightness steps with HDTV
Computer graphic have a pixel that ranges 256, starting with black
254 shade of gray and ending with white

COLOR MODELS: These are all array of hues and degrees of saturation and brightness.
 See color Plate 8

COMPATIBLE COLOR
Color videos are encoded so it can be received and reproduced by black and white television.
Colors have enough brightness contrast that will present  a monochrome video screen in different shades of gray

Black and white video no longer exists only for industrial use and all movies produced in color
There are several reasons
Lightness and darkness elements gives picture its definition.
Black-and-white rendering produces a higher-resolution than a color one.
Monochrome scene has its very own aesthetic that is quite different from a colored one.
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HOW WE MIX COLOR
Additive color mixing by shining, or adding, colored lights on top each other.
Subtracting color mixing by mixing paints or combining color filters

The basic colors are: See Color Plate 10

(Sight Sound Motion)

ADDITIVE COLOR MIXING
The primaries of additive mixing are Red, Green, and Blue. These are your additive primaries, or RGB.

Additive mixing with colored light:
Mixing red slide in one slide projector,
Green slide in a second
Blue one in third and overlapping them
partially on the screen
See Color Plate 11

(Sight Sound Motion)

Additive mixing in video:
See color plate 12

(Sight Sound Motion)

Inside the CRT (cathode ray tube) of a standard television, receiver have three primary colors (Red, Green and Blue Light) that signals activate electron guns and each shoots beams of color dots inside the television screen,

See color plate 13

(Sight Sound Motion)
See color plate 14

(Sight Sound Motion)

Complementary colors: See color plate 3

SUBTRACTIVE COLOR MIXING
Involves filtering out, or subtracting from white light all colors except the one it displays
See Color Plate 13

MIXED MIXING

(Sight Sound Motion)
See  4.2 on page 61



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COLOR TEMPERATURE
- Our color perception are also influenced by the kind of light under which we experience them." (pg-62)

- "White Light"
-No light is ordinary pure or white
- For example,  midday we see sunlight that has an extemly blush tinge during sunrise or sunset
- Measured by Kelvin degrees (K)


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 SURROUNDING COLORS
- The way we pervice color is influenced by surrounding colors
 - Similar Colors 
Ex. Someone wearing blue on a set
- Contrast Colors
    - Contrast between foreground and background. 


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WARM COLOR COOL COLOR VIDEO

          

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i8rrplL0QM

All the pictures are from the Sight Sound Motion Applied Media Aesthetic by Herbert Zettl

And the video is from youtube.

Relecction

What did we learn today?
In class we presented chapter summaries. When listen to those chapter summaries we learned about: Applied Media Aesthetics, The First Aesthetic Field:Light,  and Structuring the First Aesthetic: Lighting

What do you think about the direction of the class? 
I think the direction of the class is going well. I like how Doc Chris has us working in a group to summarize and having the students speak about the summaries. For me as a student this helps me to get a better understand. Unlike in a lecture some may listen and others wont. However in this case we all learn from these chapter summaries more effectively I think.  

What would you like to do more of to improve the class?
Nothing for today.

How did your group work together today?
My group and I worked very well today. We did some final touches on our presentation and was very proud of out work.

How did you grow as an individual?
I grew as an individual because I have more knowledge about Applied Media Aesthetics that I can share with my peers. And as a member in my group I am working with others.

How did Dr. Chris perform today? Specifically, did he work to resolve any problems that you had as a group or individually, did he answer any questions that you had and did he get the information across to you?
As usual Doc Chris was very entertaining today. His personality honestly helps one pay attention and wanna listen to what he has to say. He also answered all questions we had today in class.

Chapter 1 Sight Sound Motion Outline

Applied Media Aesthetics

Introduction
“ Consciously without knowing, you make many aesthetic choices every day.” (pg. 3)
For example deciding what you are going to eat or how you are going to get it is  apart aesthetics thinking.
“Because of  vastly increased choices in digital audio and video manipulate, media aesthetics has become an indispensable tool for structuring content” (pg.3)
Does anyone know what applied media aesthetics is?
Applied Media Aesthetics: is of and abstract concept but a process in which we examine a number of media elements, such as lighting and sound, how they interact and our perceptual reactions to them. (pg. 4)


Applied Aesthetics and Art
Art is a form of expression of ones emotion
“Whatever medium you choose for your expressions and communication, art is a process that draws on life for its creation..” (pg.4)
Overall art is a form of aesthetic communication.


Art and Experience
Art and the experience for any artist is of importance.
In media communication a group of artist such as a video, film or production team.
Whit that when editing, recording or arranging visual elements on a computer screen “you are engaged in the creative act clarifying, intensifying, and interpreting some event for a particular audience.” (pg.4)  A clear example of art and experience.

Applied Aesthetics and Contextual Perception
“ We perceive out world not in term of absolutes but rather as changing contextual relationships.”
When we look at events we are constantly judging and comparing.
For exampling: Driving a car
One evaluates your the position of the car, surroundings, signals and direction.
A decision is made upon perception and comparing


Selective Seeing And Selective Perception
We notice what we want to see or are use to
“In habitual ways if seeing, we generally select information that agrees with how we ant to see the world.
Also know as selective seeing
“For example, if you are talking to a friend in a streetcar, you are probably not aware of most of the other sounds surrounding you unless they start interfering with your conversation or are especially penetrating such as a police siren or a crash” (pg.6)
Your selective of seeing shield you from seeing to many varieties of shades and colors so that you can keep your environment relatively stable. (pg.7)


Example:

 

 Part 2 of Chapter one

The Power of Context

Bottom-up Context: you have little control over it.

Top-down Context: it is based on the intentionality of your actions.

In the top-down context we have the Associative Context which consciously establishes and applies a code that dictates, at least to some extent, how you should feel about and interpret what you see. 

Example of a Associative context/top-down context:

Based on the context, your mind makes it so that even though both “A” letters really make it so its an “H” and an “A”. 

Aesthetic Context: 

Our perceptual processes are so immediate and forceful that we respond to certain stimuli in predictable ways even when we know that we are being perceptually manipulated. Great examples: Optical illusions 

The center circle in each drawing is actually the same size. 

-your behavior exerts considerable influence on how a specific message is received. 

Applied Media Aesthetics: Method

-is based on Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebooks where he describes the “Ten attributes of sight which all find expression in Painting” 

-Deductive Abstraction: it moves from photographic realism to the essential qualities of the event.

-Inductive Abstraction: Study the formal elements of painting, or of video and film, and then arrange those elements to express the essential quality of an event. 

Fundamental Image Elements

Five fundamental ad contextual image elements of video and film: Light and color, two-dimensional space, three-dimensional space, time/motion, and sound. 

Content-Encoding

-presupposes a thorough knowledge of such production tools as cameras, lenses, lighting, audio, and so forth as well applied aesthetics, such as selective focus, the proper framing of a shot, the use of color, the selection of music, ad the sequencing of various parts of a scene. 

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAfFfqiYLp0&feature=player_embedded