Kismet Arts Tangent

First day of New Media for the quarter.

We go through past work of previous groups that have done the modules we’re about to do.

There’s a one minute video entitled Deja Vu that resonates. I still think it was very witty. And the long awaited Spice Demon video. Due to technical difficulties, this first module made video was shown this day and we all laughed. A good trick for movie props: Buy your puppet, shoot with the tag still attached and return upon completion.

First day of photo essay class. We pour over photographs. They are a series. They tell stories. Their captions clash, accentuate and steal the show. The captions sometimes say where the action is happening. Sometimes, they are editorial. This series by Bill Owens, entitled Suburbia, struck me as particularly powerful and very creative captions.

We ran down the syllabus, some of the pages included advice on brainstorming, critique guidelines, storyboarding information, interview tips, collaboration tricks (a.k.a. conflict resolution) and ways to caption photographs.

Here’s an acronym (also in the syllabus):

Points of View in Shooting a Subject: EDFAT

Entire- Observe/shoot the entire subject

Dissect the subject into specific details

Frame those details into strong original compositions

Angle- Shoot from a  variety of angles

Time- Use slices of time