In-camera edited post-card video 

Make a short (30 second to 1 minute maximum) in-camera edited videotape (a video post-card *) of a place, building or designed object. You may wish to consider lighing, materiality, color, texture, spatial sequence, the juxtaposition of physical forrms or the pathos and observable symbols of the objects you encounter.

Try a practice run first and then a final shoot of the in-camera edited movie. A cell phone camea or separate video camera is fine for this exercise. Work towards deliberate camera movement and yet take an open and experiential approach towards what you discover in the process of recording images and sounds.  Develop a few well selected sequences rather than necessarily a full description of your subject. The in-camera approach is that you will create a rough assembly edit rather than one which is finely edited.

You may perform this assignment on your own cell phone camear of video camera if you have access to one that allows you to export the movie to a standard movie file format (mov, mp4, avi).

Sign out of a camera may be possible according to procedures by Dick Smithin the School of Architecture. Sign out of a camera is also possible through the Robertson Digital Media Lab (RDML) on the third floor of Clemens Library under more restricted procedures due to the pandemic. See the details below for borrowing theses camera. Ensure that for any camera that you use, you can output the recorded video to either the Quicktime mov or mp4 formats.

Very basic camera use is all that s anticipated in this exercise. The specific camera you use will have some standard instructions typically available on-line to download as a PDF file. Check with RDML and DIck Smith regarding documentation related to the use of basic features of their cameras, and also you are welcome to meet up virtually with Earl Mark, Ammon Shepherd, or the SIA Iting Chen (appointment pending) during our office hours to be announced.

Exercise Submission

Place the completed video in your individual CLASSES server submit folder. That is, as will be demonstrated in class, upload your video in either Quickime mov or mp4 format on the School of Architrecture server Classes.arch.virginia.edu/Classes and in the folder:

ARCH5424-Mark-SPR2022/submit/lastName_firstName/exercise1.

We will review all of the videos in class. When you've completed the exercise, send a short email description of your exercise and any observations to Earl Mark, ejmark@virginia.edu, Ammon Shepherd, aes9h@virginia.edu and Iting Chen, ic7ej@virginia.edu. Also, see how to connect to the CLASSES server.