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2002 Digital Music & Digital Moviemaking Collaboration |
The following statements have been received from students interested in collaboration in 2002. Students were encouraged to make spontaneous statements that were not necessarily polished or fully developed as a basis for encouraging contact on a collaborative project. Digital Moviemaking students are listed first in alphabetical order, followed by Digital Music students. Students took the intiative to contact each other via the email addresses shown. A similar arrangment may be organized for Spring 2003.
| Digital Moviemaking Students |
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"I would like to do
something that combines animation and video to explore how light, shadow
and reflection are affected by movement. One possibility is to film the downtown mall from twilight to dark and then transform it into an animation. The idea would be to morph the mall into a canal ( a la Venice) focused on the positive forms created by light. It would be a limited color palette or possibly black and white." - Samantha Beadel swb3f@virginia.edu |
| "I am shooting a film about insomnia and would like to collaborate with a music student for it. The sound I had in mind would mimick the racing thoughts in the insomniac's head. Spoken word and noise would build to a cresendo, stop, and the softly begin again." - Linnea Beyer pinnea@lycos.com |
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"i'm planning on filming a piece about Lethal Wrecker Service here in charlottesville. i've talked to the owner about it. sounds farfetched but it actually is intended to be a short that has architectural, industrial and landscape components to it. meaning i don't see it as a straight documentary, but more about the trucks (they are awesome), the working parts of the tow mechanism, and the social aspects of going out on a road call. not to be mtv about it, but i kind of see it as a sort of video - emphasis on editing, hand held shots, some effects - so i thought a music student might be interested - sound aspects would be interviews, machinery, engines, and, of course, music...." - Kent Dougherty pkd2h@virginia.edu |
| "I am interested in the music partner but am unsure of the direction I would like to take the final project. I would like to use both animation and video but may just stick to video. I have been thinking about using my site for studio which is located about an hour north of here in Virginia - there is nothing around accept a road which crosses with railroad tracks. I was thinking about the use of the train, the light cast both thru the train cars and the quadrant of trees, and the contrast in materiality b/w the tranquil surrounds and heavy rusting steel cars / bolts / etc. to come up with something funky - BUT again, simply a first run thought off the top of my brain".- Emily Mottolese mottolese@hotmail.com. |
| "I am interested in collaborating
with a music student in making a short movie about a work of architecture;
the concept and context behind it. The piece I am looking at is Rem Koolhaas's
Villa Bordeaux. The Villa was built for a man confined to a wheel chair
after a car accident and no longer able to move through the unhindered
world. In Koolhaas' concept of the Villa, it redefines the world around
the handicap of the man. He becomes stationary while the villa itself changes shape as needed." David Mullen dam2q@virginia.edu |
| "I am going to do an
animation of the space shown in this example. This is a house of a photographer,
it can easily be transformed into a studio. By moving furniture, changing
lights, etc.. I think I want to do an animation with the camera moving and showing this space in different times of the day and different situations, with people, etc...I also plan on having a TV, an cd player that can maybe turned on and off(??)" - Veronica Page vp5d@virginia.edu |
| "For my final project, I am thinking about generating a robotic buggy model that will roam through several parts of my room. I will be required to collaborate real-life recording of my room and play with chroma-keying. I am thinking that either techno or hiphop track as a background music may be interesting. Moreover, different sound effects for movements of the machinery may heighten the quality of animation." Calvin Park cyp6e@cms.virginia.edu |
| "LAPSE: A cinematic exploration
of narcolepsy Have you ever been awakened suddenly, not aware that you had fallen asleep? You jog your memory, but nothing comes. You look around the room, a room you know intimately, and something feels different, as if some has moved things around while you were asleep. Have they? Has someone been in the room with you? You try to remember, but nothing comes up. Your heart rate quickens, you try to find some solution, eyes looking around frantically, attempting to pinpoint what has changed, what is different from before. The clock on your desk reads 5:30 -- where have you been for the last 4 hours? What were you doing before then? Everything is a blur. The phone rings. You pick it up out of instinct, and wait for the voice on the other end. You hear nothing. You speak -- "hello? hello?" No reply. You hang up the phone, and it rings again. At the same time, your alarm clock goes off -- did you set it? Why would you have set it for 5:40pm? You struggle for the answers, but none come.." - Rob Walker rwalker@virginia.edu rwalker@virginia.edu |
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"I am interested in collaborating with a Digital Music student. I am not exactly sure what I would like to do, although I was fascinated with the piece we heard at Old Cabell of the cacophany voices and broken bits of conversation. Perhaps that could make for an interesting film on how human interaction (communication) can change our perception of a specific place. I would also like to include music, what type? I'm not sure right now." - Sudie Wentling saw7b@virginia.edu. |
| Digital Music Students |
| "I would like to collaborate with someone doing something like a pinball machine. I think it would be neat to use the perspective of the ball following through the pinball machine." - Jeff Woraratanadharm jefftw@juno.com |