25 Project Ideas

1. Six Degrees of Drunkenness
“Mockumentary” featuring the types of drunks: such as happy, angry, and sleepy.
2. Shapeshifting Parkour
Person in green jumpsuit runs around campus and downtown doing flips and shit. Green jumpsuit will be chroma keyed in Final Cut Pro and replaced with shapeshifting abstract patterns
3. Flash Mob Compilation
A collage of flash mob videos to create one huge virtual flash mob or perhaps the title.
4. Surveillance/Voyeur Live Facebook
Crowds of people and passerbys doing ordinary things. However, text pops up above them in 3D as a live status update.
5. StompClap Live Music
Video of people stomping and clapping to create rhythm. However, instead of having the actual sounds project out, actual instrumentals and percussions will project out.
6. Beer Pong Portal
Players throw ping-pong balls into red cups. Instead of the cups having a “bottom,” the cups turn out to be portals leading to actual red cups. Akin to playing mini golf.
7. Reverse Sobriety
Reversed clip of an alcoholic’s night, focusing on the sobering process. Split screen to a parallel metaphor.
8. Apples and Oranges
Stop motion of apples and oranges having a battle on the kitchen counter. Would involve lots of “air” shots.
9. Synchronized Man and Music
Ambiguous take on daily life and how routine actions create a music-box song…or maybe how a music-box song creates routine actions.
10. Real-Time Inebriation
Spoof of “Real-Time Inception” YouTube video. Shows how time passes by for a sober person, tipsy person, drunk person, and a passed-out person.
11. How to Create Video Art
DIY video of how to create the ultimate video art. Includes step-by-step instructions on music and editing.
12. Cooking Grades
A cooking show spoof involving recipes on how to make certain types of homework, and the nutritional facts (grades) that come along with it.
13. Replicating Insomnia
Narrative of how one sleepless art student begins to affect those around him, and how insomnia starts to turn into a “virus” during finals week.
14. White Noise
Starts off with black-and-white security footage of daily occurrences in a convenience store. Zooms out to view several B&W stock footage, before viewer realizes all the video clips create a white noise effect.
15. Falling Asleep
A person plops into a bed, but rather than landing on it, goes through it as if it was a portal/gateway. Several levels of person falling from sky/ceiling and going through sleeping bags, hammocks, etc, before ending up in black space in the fetal position.
16. Sleeping Bag Catapillar
Metamorphosis of a restless college student in a sleeping bag. Several stages of physical development, before finally coming out as a member of society.
17. Cardboard Skateboard
Stop motion of using cardboard cutouts shaped like skateboards, scooters, and segways in order to get across campus.
18. Nerf Gun Wars
Hip-hop music video involving kiddie alternatives to motifs such as guns, drugs, and cars (nerf guns, pez/candy, go-karts/cardboard cutouts respectively)
19. Green Screen Zero Gravity
Creating surreal environments through green screening. People in front of it would be suspended by green or blue string/yarn.
20. Animation Intro
Title sequence intro done through animation regarding a mock video entitled “Video Art” or ArtBash
21. Suicide Flashback
Moments before Cody Zuccari tries to commit suicide, a long flashback sequence is shown in reverse, split screened with forward-shown flashbacks of those around him.
22. Cardboard Turntable
A random turntable in the Architecture atrium appears. A regular student walks up and tries out the turntable. As he/she starts using the turntable, music bursts out and a lightshow starts being projected on the architecture building windows.
23. Time Lapse of Weight
A time lapse of a college student losing weight as work and social events consume most of his time and sleep.
24. Time Lapse of Gluttony
Time lapse clips of people eating at restaurants, specifically fast food and food considered to be unhealthy and hearty. Focuses on massive weight/amount of food ordered.
25. Telekinesis
One pill/injection from the UF Health Department gives a student telekinetic abilities, and uses it to entertain himself.

25 Project Ideas

1. Tin Garbage Man (made out of garbage/recyclable products)
2. Create a flipbook of your favorite childhood memories.**
3. Illustrate a book cover. (children's/adult/romance/chicken soup for the soul)
4. Illustrate a magazine cover. (Essence, Life, XX, National Geographic)
5. Illustrate a CD cover. (Beyonce, Eminem, Lupe Fiasco, The Fray)
6. Create a painting with ketchup, mustard, and mayo. (any dimensions)
7. Make a life-size toilet-paper mummy sculpture.
8. Create a self-portrait from newspaper clippings. (Find clippings that influence you)
9. Design a deck of cards (could be for Uno, Phase 10, or a totally new game)
10. Gum sculpture (only using Winterfresh & Strident gum)
11. Appropriated sound project. (only using stuff breaking like dishes)
12. Calendar with on the stuff you celebrate.
13. Various refrigerator magnets that yell at you tasks you are supposed to do around the house.
14. Detailed blueprints of an all-purpose backpack that transforms with you as you grow up.
15. Windshield wipers that attach to your glasses/shades for those rainy/foggy days or when you
step off the bus.
16. Poster advocating for more parking on campus.
17. Animal photo frame with the cutest animals in the world.
18. Greeting card series for the world's fattest person.
19. Painted mural for homecoming game.
20. Biodegradable creations (Sprite flowers, robot made up of cans of tomato paste)
21. Ceramic 3- layer cake (vanilla & chocolate)
22. New line of Beats headphones with full color customization.
23. Ceramic converse. (USA edition_red, white, and blue)
24. Stop motion about how all my food gradually disappears from my fridge.
25. PSA expressing the importance of a college education.

Final Project Rubric

out of 25 points

7 points for concept: clarity of intention (for a (ir)responsible and engaged audience

6 points for creativity: not typical/imaginative/making connections analytically/well-thought

6 points for technique: craft, fluidity (is not distracting from its goals), has an appropriate relation to concept

6 points for presentation: prepared and organized, thoughtfulness in regards to the experience, documentation (which should recreate the experience in some way, deny the experience completely, or teleologically manifest from the event as material)

(this is what we've decided on in class. if anyone has questions or further clarifications please add them in the comments. good luck!)

also this is the list of processes that we made in connection with making work:
1. think about stuff/ brainstorm
2. research materially and conceptually
3. create
4. edit
5. refine
5.5 export
5.6 reflect
6. present
7. CRIT/ get feedback

My Stop Motion Video

Sound

Not sure if you guys like pogo or not but his work reminds me of our sound project.

Burning a DVD

Hey guys, these are the steps that you'll take to burn your DVD. This DVD will be an information or data DVD rather than a video DVD. The files that you should have burned are: 1) The Grab Bag Project 2) The Sound Experiment 3) The Stop-Motion Animation.

In the Mac OS X Finder (10.1.2 or later)
1. Insert a blank DVD-R disc in the drive.
2. In the dialog box that appears, enter a name for the disc and choose the format you want to create. An icon for the DVD appears on the desktop.
3. Drag files and folders to the icon. The space available will not completely update until all items have been copied.
4. From the File menu, choose Burn Disc.

Requirements to burn data DVDs:

DVD-R capable drive
DVD-R media
Mac OS X 10.1.2 or later

Can't wait for the critique,
Budd

designing women

Riva Starr Feat. Noze - I Was Drunk (Official Video HD)

Sound Art Project

Close your eyes. Listen to the millions of sounds around you: the hum of a refrigerator, the dedication of an oscillating fan, footsteps suctioning to the dirty linoleum of a kitchen floor. The waving of papers and thin plastic interrupted by teh occasional gurgle of the coffeemaker struggling without water to percolate. There might be a drippy faucet in your kitchen. A small child talking or breathing. A roommate sneezing. Beyond the kitchen and traffic and birds outside, there is still no such thing as silence. Miles away I can hear your favorite song blasting from your earbuds and your fingers snapping a rhythm (when the silence is a drone with staccato notes). I hear my blood traveling the rivulets of slicked tubing (when the silence is water). I hear satellites passing overhead (the silence's piercing crescendo) and the supernova of a star on the opposite side of the universe (when the silence is fire).

Use archive.org's sound section or some itunes jams to appropriate sounds. Then, with the help of Audacity, mashup, destroy, rearrange, repattern the sounds you have collected into a shorter length listening piece. Export your piece as an MP3 or AIFF.

DUE: October 6th
Length: 0m30s - 10m00s