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I noticed this as well with a try-out screening I did in a small cinema; if the sound is only coming from the backspeakers, or only from the frontspeakers, the sound is not spacial enough. | I noticed this as well with a try-out screening I did in a small cinema; if the sound is only coming from the backspeakers, or only from the frontspeakers, the sound is not spacial enough. | ||
Here I wanted to upload my three different sound-recordings on the garagedoorpiece so you can hear the difference but it does not work??? (Help?) | |||
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= Thesis / Graduation seminar= | = Thesis / Graduation seminar= | ||
Revision as of 13:36, 23 March 2013
Graduation work / progress trim 5
Description
350 words including aims of the theoretical and practical research as well as its outcome.
Media
Process Garagedoors
Research on difference between 17mm lens and a 20mm lens
Still 17mm lens
This is a still from a garagedoor video shot with a 17mm lens, the disadvantage is that the lens gives distortion in the image and needs to lens-correction in the post-production.
Still 20mm lens
This is a still from a garagedoor video shot with a 20mm lens, I placed the tripod on a bigger distance to the door so I had more or less the same frame as with the 17mm when the tripod was placed closer to the door, the 20mm lens gives no big distortion and does not need lens-correction in the post-production.
Conclusion:
In my opinion the 17mm videos work better. The viewing angle is bigger and the image looks more surreal in this wider shot.
There is more 'distance' between image and viewer because 17mm decrease the landscape-view: it seems further away.
Maybe the 17mm works also better because the angle on reality differs quite much from our own purview.
(a 20mm as well but the difference isn't that huge as with 17mm)
Video
optional unless the final outcome of the project, or one of its main components, is a video/film/animation.
- allowed containers/codecs combos:
- WebM (preferred):
- Video codec: VP8 (3-5 Mbps data rate)
- Audio codec: Vorbis (-q 6)
- Ogg:
- Video codec: Theora (3-5 Mbps data rate)
- Audio codec: Vorbis (-q 6)
- MP4:
- Video Codec: H.264 (3-5 Mbps data rate)
- Audio Codec: AAC (160kbps or 384kbps if 5.1) or MP3 (-V0 or -b 320)
- WebM (preferred):
- resolution: 720p if source >= 720p, native resolution otherwise, progressive.
- FPS: 24, 25, 30.
- Sample rate:
- 44.1kHz if source is 44.1kHz or 88.2kHz
- 48 kHz if source is 48kHz or 96kHz
- 44.1 kHz for everything else.
Audio
In januari I took part in the School Of Sound workshop with Larry Sider. In this workshop I used self made recordings combined with music and sound grabbed from an online sound-databank to create a soundtrack together with Danny (alumni).
With video offcourse you have medium/close-up/wide shots. I learned that this is actually also the fact with sound. You have sound in the background/distance (environment sound) you have medium sound and close sound (dialogue for example)
For the audio of the 'Garagedoor-pieces' I tried out different recordings. Normally the sound recording device is placed in the shed; hereby the shed functions as a kind of resonance box. The sound is recorded on four channels (2x stereo sound) In one video I placed the recording device outside the shed; close to the door. Another recording was made by placing the device in the field itself.
Outcome: I made one edit in which all audio is placed underneath one video, this was a good exercise for practicing my skills on synching sound and make it lower to avoid the audio-meter in the red area (when sound is too loud) The outcome resulted in too much gain/noise in the sound and I concluded that best is to record in the shed. Now I am busy editing/sync sound underneath every video (as it was shot) to listen to the difference in these 3 soundtracks.
In my screening of the Garagedoor-pieces in the videolounge I asked for 2x stereosound in the space. One is coming from the frontspeakers (stereo) which are placed underneath the projection and one set of stereospeakers is placed in the back of the space. This results in a more spacial sound then if the sound is only coming from the back. I noticed this as well with a try-out screening I did in a small cinema; if the sound is only coming from the backspeakers, or only from the frontspeakers, the sound is not spacial enough.
Here I wanted to upload my three different sound-recordings on the garagedoorpiece so you can hear the difference but it does not work??? (Help?)
Thesis / Graduation seminar
Exhibition in the Sub Urban Videolounge - Rotterdam
Documentation exhibition
11.03.2013 -24.03.2013
ASTRID VAN NIMWEGEN : GARAGE DOOR PIECES
Living in the middle of the farming fields, Astrid is strongly connected with and inspired by the landscape and the ever changing weather of the Dutch south-west. At the same time she travels – literally and figuratively. It is as if these oppositions are reflected in her work: passionately connected to video, her work is an ongoing search for balance between minimalism, conceptualism, theatricality, the language of cinema and ritualistic forms of storytelling. Garage Doors as presented in Sub urban video lounge is a studious collection of shots, where the artist´s only decisions seem to be the position of the camera, the moment of the shot and the duration of the opening of the door. By these decisions Astrid gives us the possibility to really see something, the changing of the light, the movement of the clouds, the reflections on the wet concrete floor, a leave blown by the wind... text by: Toine Horvers / Astrid van Nimwegen
non optional
- One page itemised budget estimate