Conversation with Self Script and Video

G1- Hey?

G1- Do you know what time it is?

G2- Yeah its 11:45

G1- What time do I have class tomorrow?

G2- 8:00 am as always

G1- hmm, I really feel like dancing, I think ill go to the studios

G2- Are you sure that’s a good idea?

G1- Ofcourse, why?

G2- Think of how much you’ve already danced today?

G1- yeah but its my passion mom

G2-  you have already danced 8 hours today and gone to the gym..

G1- So, what else is there to do tonight?

G2- You can finish your DMA project or catch up on sleep

G1- What does it look like im doing right now…and sleep is for the weak

G2- Actually as active as you are your body really needs enough sleep to maintain energy & avoid injury

G1- Ill be back by 1:30 though

G2- Even if you went to sleep now you would not get the needed 8 hours

G1- You have a point, but I have too much energy to sleep right now. Plus I need to work on comp

G2- Then take a benedryl, it will help you sleep. You can find time tomorrow to work on comp

G1- Benedryl is stupid, ill take 5 just to prove you wrong (takes it)

G2-  noo.. (too late) hahah good luck

(15 minutes later)

G1- alright peace out G$, im heading to the studios soon

G2- Bye (Drinks water)

G1- Wait do you know where my head phones are?

G2- In your blue back pack

G1- (checks) no there not

G2- Oh wait there right here (hands them over)

G1- Also can I use that water bottle

G2- No

G1- You don’t need it

G2- Yes I do, im using it right now

G1- just finish you water and give it here

G2- No, ill take my damn time

G1- *Yawns* cmon man

G2- Why don’t you try to get it

G1- tries to reach but is really tired

G2- Wow, all of a sudden your not doing so well

G1- nah im fine, just gonna go dance it off

G2- alright see you later

G1- *tries to get up and falls over* zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

G2-hehehe *drinks water*

 Although it took me a few takes to get the whole conversation and some patience to edit the video,I am generally happy with the result of this video and the composition process that i went through. A few of my transitions and cuts could have been cleaner, however I am becoming more confident with editing and executing such video compositions. I decided to write a script on an internal struggle that I have almost every night; To go work on dance in the studio vs.spend such time doing homework, catching up on sleep etc... I have had a long history of dance related injuries thus far at UNCSA, largely due to muscle overuse. My mind tends to get ahead of my body, and this video has actually helped me think clearly and weigh out my decisions regarding this issue. I understand that it is important to take care of my body and stay patient in both my academics and dance classes.

Composing a New Media Video

 Composing a New Media Video

Composing my new media video (in comparison to my past audio composition), turned out to be more difficult, yet a much more rewarding experience. Completing last week’s audio composition was almost too simple- possibly because I frequently use audacity to edit music for dance purposes. However, prior to this weekend, I have never been challenged with recording, organizing and editing video clips. Consequently, this was definitely a learning experience. I struggled making this video by myself of a few hours, before turning to a friend in the film department for an editing tutorial and advice concerning which software to use. Sometimes while composing media through unfamiliar processes, you need to be resourceful, and at times, ask for help. In this case, I used “Final Cut Express.” I set alarms throughout each day to remind myself to take videos. After looking at my first 6 seconds of video (from Monday), I realized how boring and un- original all my clips were. So, instead of just taking the usual videos of the cafeteria, my room, etc… I decided to take videos of the unusual/ obscure things that I experience throughout my week. With this being said, though it is unique, my final product seems relatively fanatical and non- sequential. It was especially hard to use only 30 of my 600 total seconds of footage. Finally, I am curious to see how the mood/ feeling of my new media composition would change with a completely different sound score, such as a song or poem.

Digital Media Composing New Media Audio

 

My new audio composition provides insight into my daily life; in this case Tuesday, March 25. My composition begins with audio of my footsteps walking around campus (which is layered and looped throughout the new media audio composition). Next, you can hear Bob King giving a lecture in DMA class, followed by more foots steps. After this, I briefly hang out with friends in the pickle and walk over to a dance class. In this dance class, Ming Yang, recites a poem in Chinese. Finally, another set of footsteps takes me to my final location, the cafeteria and then back to my dorm to get some sleep.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3v4XAztfAU

Week Nine- Network Style Diagram

        This network style diagram represents a visual insight into my everyday life from an auditory perspective. I have used the larger shapes to show my typical acoustic environments. For example I have used images of nature, parties, houses, cars and theaters.  Additionally, I have grouped smaller images that show particular sounds that I hear, along with associative emotions in relation to each given environment.

Narrative Image: Technology vs. Nature

Inspired by the narrative photographer seen in the video example, I also chose not to focus on the short term occurrences before and after the moment this picture was taken. As seen in this picture are two of my friends (Art Davidson and Ryan Civale). Though they are both friends, besides the physical fact that they are sitting next to each other, they do not appear to acknowledge or even appreciate each others presence. They are separated and unable to break the barriers created by modern day technology. Interestingly enough, the dim and almost disapproving lighting in this picture comes from my natural aquarium.

Dynamite Diagram: Conceptual and Media Assets

      One of Marshall McLuhan's concerns that resonated most with me regards the observation that we tend

 to focus on the obvious. By doing, it can be historicly seen that we largely miss the structural changes in our

 affairs that are introduced over long periods of time. Whenever a new innovation or idea is created, many of

 its properties are fairly obvious to us in the sense that we generally know what it will nominally do, or at 

least what it is intended to do, and what it might replace. We often know what its advantages and 

disadvantages might be. But it is also often the case that, after a long period of time and experience with the

 new innovation, we look backward and realize that there were some effects of which we were entirely

 unaware at the outset.

      For example, Alfred Nobel thought dynamite, which he invented and was relatively stable, would make 

mining and other rock-blasting operations much safer than it had been with nitroglycerin. He didn't think it 

would be used for military purposes.

The Medium is the Massage Ramble

"Until writing was invented, man lived in an acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizon-less, in the dark of mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror.

This quote, regarding ones perception on life prior to writing technologies, really resonated with me. Although I believe that this thought by McLuhan is perhaps exaggerated, I found the idea of life being "boundless, directionless and horizon-less" to be interesting. The space lived in prior to the invention of writing is physically the same as now, however on a personal/ intellectual level the world is now seen and percieved completely differently

Peters Haiku Generator

Summer startles men.

The broken fortresses set.

The turning mouths clash.

Medium is the Massage: Quotes/ Themes

1. As soon as information is acquired, it is very rapidly replaced by still newer information.

2.The worldpool of information fathered by electric media—movies, Telstar, flight-

far surpasses any possible influence mom and dad can now bring to bear.

3. The professional tends to classify and to specialize, to accept uncritically the ground-rules of the environment. The ground-rules provided by the mass response of his colleagues serve as a pervasive environment of which he is contentedly and unaware.

4. At the high speeds of electronic communication, purely visual means of
apprehending the world are no longer possible; they are just too slow to
be relevant or effective.

5. Until writing was invented, man lived in an acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of mind, in the world of emotion, by primordial intuition, by terror.

Five Random Quotes

"Already almost lifeless, cold at heart, I descended the spiral staircase to the music room but there I found I had not been abandoned." -The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

"I asked you who brought you here?"-Beloved by Toni Morrison

"She slept with the radio blasting and the lights on." The Color of Water by James McBride

"I'm saying, yeah, its harder to get dates because there aren't any black girls around here." Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama

"We hit the used paper bag stalls stocked with greasy pulp novels and pinup magazines." Just Kids by Patti Smith

"Already almost lifeless, cold at heart, I descended the spiral staircase to the music room but there I found I had not been abandoned. I asked you who brought you here She slept with the radio blasting and the lights on. I'm saying, yeah, its harder to get dates because there aren't any black girls around here. We hit the used paper bag stalls stocked with greasy pulp novels and pinup magazines.

Rant

HOT Chocolate Rant


I love hot chocolate but sometimes it makes me very angry because I will be excited to drink it and then I will burn my mouth and tongue really badly and then I don't want to drink it anymore or eat any other foods even when I am hungry because it would hurt to eat food and I wouldn't be able to taste the food to its full potential except for ice cream because ice cream is cold and it makes my mouth feel better.

The Decomposition of "The Book of Awesome" by Neil Pasricha

Fire and Water

The Decomposition of "The Book of Awesome" by Neil Pasricha