Testing final exams

Hello

if you are reading this and have not tested your final you either need to be here before 5 pm today to test your final presentation or by 1pm on thursday to test for the 3-5 pm show.

No exceptions.

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A few words about HipHop Theatre

I had the opportunity to watch some of the live stream of HipHop Theatre hosted by the Digital Worlds Institute a few weeks ago. I wanted to quickly give you impression of the show, since I have never really seen anything similar.

The audio and video effects synchronization behind the whole act simply blew me away, given the fast paced environment with which they had to keep up. The video effects were very well crafted to reflect the proper mood throughout the presentation. The overall theme of the event was quite interesting and I thought that the short skits brought out the multitude of abilities in all the actors, while keeping the crowd entertained. Since I was viewing the event live on ustream, camera control was really important, so that the viewer would see and possibly feel like he was part of the audience. This part of the presentation was also very well executed but sometimes the audio volume created distortions when the actors spoke, hindering some of the experience.

Overall I enjoyed the HipHop Theatre and hope that the Digital Worlds Institute continues to fuse the latest technologies in order to tell compelling stories.

class today

is in the NAVE
we have administrivia to take care of please attend even if you are working on your project.

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Final Project

The plan is to use a video similar to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGE6GYiNENA and create an eerie atmosphere with ghost voices, heartbeats, screams and really anything that fits the theme.

Final Project

For my midterm I added sound to a silent film, "Development of a Salamander", that I downloaded from the Prelinger Archives. For my final project I will be mixing my sounds in 5.1 using Pro Tools.

Alvin Lucier - I am sitting in a room

Given the nature of this repetitive and monotonous listening exercise, I would say that it mostly tested your patience more than anything else. As Lucier’s voice becomes more garbled and disperses into the atmosphere of the room one has to appreciate the tedious fine-tuning that was required to bring this piece to fruition. After the 14^th minute any sign of intelligible speech is lost and after the 17^th minute Lucier’s voice is reminiscent to that of a robot. It sounds very industrial and metallic in nature and after the 34^th minute it morphs into something closely resembling chiming bells.