CUASTA512 : Semester 2, 2022
CUASTA512 Manage Show Control Operations – Guide to what is being assessed (PDF)
Assessments :
Assignment 1 – Quiz
Assignment 2 – Performance ( week 7 / week 8 )
Assignment 3 – Performance ( week 14 / week 15 )
The performances will be 3-4 minutes, using VDMX to play a sequence of media files to match cues in a song or speech.
Examples of live video ‘show control’ :
Live Performance, Installation / Video Production showreels, and SuperEverything, APB: 9th Innings + Book of Changes – all by The Light Surgeons (UK)
Borischimp AV performance ( http://borischimp504.com )
Cityscape 2095 , Mécaniques Discursives +Mécaniques Discursives “Framed Series” – (Narrative installations) by Legoman (FR).
3Destruct (Audiovisual synchronisation, layering of light) ,
Onionskin (formal geometry explorations),
+ The Ark (Mapping onto organic shapes, Oaxaca gardens, Mexico) – all by AntiVJ
Planning a video
Developing atmosphere: what are moodboards?
Planning your sequence of shots – what is storyboarding?
What is motion design? ( 9 minute video )
Staying organised – creating a production timeline to create everything needed.
What is VDMX?
Introduction to VDMX – helpfully broken down into these sections:
- MEDIA FILES, GENERATORS, AND LIVE INPUTS
- IMAGE PROCESSING AND OUTPUT
- CONTROL AND AUTOMATION
The VDMX manual
A good place to start exploring VDMX? The tutorial series of ‘Video fundamentals’.
What Is Video?
This very technical overview of video – https://lurkertech.com/lg/video-systems – is worth a look at, to help understand why video standards can be so quirky.
Video is complicated. “If we take a moment to understand the bigger picture of video.. how it is transmitted electrically, how it is displayed by TVs and monitors… then suddenly it becomes tremendously easier to understand where these videosyncracies come from”
“Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media.[1]
Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode ray tube (CRT) systems which were later replaced by flat panel displays of several types.
Video systems vary in display resolution, aspect ratio, refresh rate, color capabilities and other qualities. Analog and digital variants exist and can be carried on a variety of media, including radio broadcast, magnetic tape, optical discs, computer files, and network streaming.” – Wikipedia’s definition of video
1. Neil Armstrong – Moon Landing 4:23
https://archive.org/details/Greatest_Speeches_of_the_20th_Century/TheMoonLanding.mp3
2. Amelia Earhart – The Future of Women in Flying 2:03
https://archive.org/details/Greatest_Speeches_of_the_20th_Century/TheFutureofWomeninFlying.mp3
3. Kim Preshoff – Why is biodiversity so important? 4:18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK_vRtHJZu4&ab_channel=TED-Ed
4. Lisa LaBracio – The “myth” of the boiling frog 4:40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=128fp0rqfbE
5. Paul Keating – The impact of European settlement on Indigenous Australia 4:35
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAFaHP6w6tE
6. Professor Diona Damain – How does sunscreen work? 2:50
7. Alan Watts – The Dream Of Life 3:38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU0PYcCsL6o
8. Leonardo DiCaprio – Climate Summit Speech 3:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka6_3TJcCkA
9. “I am the Edison Phonograph” 2:10
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/i-am-the-edison-phonograph-1906
10. ABC – Lisa Leong + Kari Leibowitz – “Embracing the wintertime mindset” ABC Radio ( 0:30 – 4:03 )
https://www.abc.net.au/melbourne/programs/sundays/wintertime-mindset/13976814
11. Sammy J + Meg Goulding “Historical find proves Melbourne has always bean a coffee kinda town” ABC Radio 2:43
https://www.abc.net.au/melbourne/programs/breakfast/coffee-bean-stash/13969238
12. David Astle + Kelly Lehmann “The Aboriginal flag will fly permanently over the Westgate Bridge.” ABC Radio 3:47
13. “How Global Warming Works in Under 3 Minutes” 2:53
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVshm-xKsVo
14. “Project Net Zero” 3:08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMeRncEdou8
15. “2-Minute Neuroscience: Autism”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEBsTX2OVgI
16. Stewart Brand – “What squatter cities can teach us” 2:52
Week 2
introduction tutorial to VDMX
We’ll also be developing production plans for the songs or speeches, that you will be performing cues to in week 7 + 8.
Please choose your song or speech by Wednesday.
List of Speeches (also found under Modules)
What is Motion Design?
“Motion Design is the art of giving life to graphic design.” (9 min video)
Moodboards – eg tutorials at milanote / canva
Storyboarding eg part of planning process / storyboards for motion design / storyboard examples
- Photoshop 2021 Quick Start (Links to an external site.)
- Getting Started with Premiere Pro for the Non-Video Pro