Final Project

The Final Project is a combination of Sound (Unit 4) and Video (Unit 5). This project demonstrates the skills you will be learning using audio recorders and editing programs, as well as video and animation. Your goal is to combine sound and image in a meaningful and thoughtful manner. Sound is often an afterthought to videos and movies, but in this project your goal is to think of ways that sound can contribute significance or meaning to the content of your images. The following are required:

1) A significant, thoughtful sound track that includes, but is not limited to:

a) at least two (2) sounds recorded by you (using either hand recorders or studio mics- can be abstract, narration, instrumental or any variation thereof)

2) An image component that can be:

a) stop-motion animation, digital video, or found images

b) consider things like:

-an interview project

-an audio and image tour of a place or landscape

-an abstract collage of images and sounds

-a video projection onto a wall or object

-a cinematic and "movie-like" experience that has a narrative (a beginning, middle and end, plot, characters)

Start now! Gathering materials is an important aspect of your work- check out a recorder and start getting sounds or interviews. Check out a camera and start taking pictures and recording video. Put these in a file for your Final Project. Become familiar with the technology. Gathering sounds and images is only one part of the process. Editing is an entirely creative and time-consuming process that can lead to exciting discoveries. The more materials you have to work with when you begin editing, the better.

Think about whether this is something that would loop continuously in a gallery or would it be an experience that requires the viewer to watch it from the beginning to the end? Please consider the importance of editing, narrative arc, and the position of the viewer-- your entire work should be between 4-8 minutes.

Your Final Project is due Wednesday, April 28 and should be placed in my DropBox or given to me on a CD by this date.