Day 6

Today in our session was the most complex work that we have done. The tools that we used today were plenty. There was mylar paper to make the patterns and piping to make the lining of the leather look pretty. Of course there was leather, shoe glue to stick the leather to the shoes, and black shoe polish to change the original color of the shoe from blue to black.

Day 6

Children's Discovery Museum - Making Progress

Hello all,

Children's Discovery Museum projects are coming along very well with most kids in the final stages of production. We had the oppurtunity to exhbit some of the in-progress projects at a Youth Programs event at the museum a few days ago that was attended by about 100 people. The projects were met with much praise.

We have had a little trouble trying to post our works-in-progress to this blog for all to see, but hopefully they will be up soon.

Thanks

Nueva projects at the Maker faire

Greetings from The Nueva School!

This past weekend we showed some of the projects we are showing at the at the tech museum in the Maker Faire!!

Here are some photographs of the Interactive Art (Robotics and Interface video Art projects) and also a couple of still images from the climate cartoons (animations) that are almost done.

The animation class just finished the Animatics and know we are starting the animation process.

The Interactive art class is now fixing some of the final details and we will be ready to go. We are very exited to be part of this show!

All these projects were made by 7th graders and by a couple of 8th graders!

We look forward to meeting you all.

Daniela

And the still images of the Animations!

Kibera Youth Organize HIP HOP FILM FESTIVAL

Thanks to the commitment of the youth organizers, the second annual HIP HOP FILM FESTIVAL, held in Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi, Kenya, was a big success. The Film Fest offers Kibera youth their only opportunity to view and discuss quality films from around the world.

13th screen Yonkers

These are my notes on our first multicamera exercise, from here many things have happened.
Attached is a non sequential nice pict. of my students preparing cameras to work with dancers.


2/28 – plan for yonkers 4 camera shoot. This is what we know – there’s a house with some people.
Discussions about plan/ no plan – Ideas: what do we learn about these people, can we go through their trash, can I have sex in their bed? We’ll meet and ask them questions, about how to proceed. decision: let’s go there and see, less rules.

made groups of 3 and 4 same as their car. Meet 7:15 7:30 on the porch.
Hmwk. Make up a character. Write a dialog and a short sketch the story comes through the dialog. Your character makes a cameo.

3/6--- meeting in the house. Questions asked, rules placed – don’t open drawers, touch much, pick up the rabbits. Questions, can the groups split up? Restate hand over lens, whistles are thron out, but not too excited about them.
On direction: find the story.

Wandering ensues. Groups disperse, cameras remain in the hands of few. People loook lost, but keep going. I prod a few times.
45:00 in we reconvene and J.M.calls a game of hide and seek. It has a rough start. Then starts. The counter sits on the couch, some people remain in their hide-outs. Aborted.
Scene ends in the basement drum room. Cameras shut down characters walk out the back door and around the front as students we sit around the kitchen table and talk about it.

feedback: What were the stories you found. Snippet, how does this connect to what you find next?
C. and D. found a murder and trailed it. How did your character help or hinder your experience? Some helped them engage and some ie:downer characters hurt their activation. Some felt the energy was chaotic, weird and high.

My critiques, more direction, but does it have to come from me? Handing over of camera. Figure out motivation and intention. Remember the cameras are part of this. Wish I had opened the floor to ask the house questions in the closing forum.

Assignment given – come up with a direction for the class to produce. Work with x. make a packet that we can use with you there or not. I said it could be 1 cam or multi. I feel like changing that.

Read r. altman interview
Create a direction for the class of 15 (16 w/ Carrie) for either a 13th screen synchronized camera hand editing scenario with 4, 9 or 16 cameras Or another camera situation, with awareness to editing and how post production can or will be accomplished. Everyone in class must have a job. And the video must have a beginning middle and end..
The project you propose must be written (typed with or without story boards/graphs/drawings. You must present/sell it to the class.
(question – do we proceed with these scenarios, and keep short assignments, or a final?

Updates from Macedonia

Dear all,

“Progressing” is the name of the project on which I’ve been working in the past few weeks. I’ve been thinking of where is the whole tendency of making life better and easier taking us, if we are making our way of living better at all!

I think most of the people are not really aware of the situation in which our planet is at the moment and that maybe this progression is leading us to destruction. 

I’m posting here stills from the “Progressing” video.