Comm Lab Final

here is my final flash
www.jodyzellen.com/a_life

I also worked on this
www.jodyzellen.com/comic

and this
www.jodyzellen.com/oog_news

Walter Ong

Walter Ong is not a writer I was familiar with and was excited to delve into his writings. For some reason I found his prose unreadable so my comments are minimal. I guess for me the basics are between reading, interpreting and interfacing. While reading might have been new at one time, story telling was always practiced. Now we read, write and listen using the computer and our dependancy on technology has for sure changed our relationship to orality and literacy.
Storytelling is interactive as one hears what one ones, in a way, takes that and passes it along. The idea of new media allows for that possibility in that one can follow any path in a complex web of information to discern the meaning and the knowledge they are after.

Comm Lab Final Idea

For my final project I will go back in to Flash and work an the animation I began in which little figures from my drawings move, and populate the screen in various ways. The project is something i have ben working on since I presented it for the stop motion animation project and had developed to this stage.

www.jodyzellen.com/a_life

in the next few weeks it will continue to develop. however the fate of the figure is still unknown

Comm Lab After Effects

In After Effects - just a low resolution movie.
To view
click here

This is another one (original is 1.4 GB)
click here

Comm Lab Movie

Eddie, Kim and I created this movie.

to see the low resolution version

click here

Comm Lab Story Board

For our movie we have a narrative/abstract idea.

A figure emerges from the subway into the light
He is bombarded by language he can not understand (Chinatown shoot)
Close up of figures talking in a language he can not grasp
Image of confusion

all this is shot in hight contrast black and white

Cut to fast paced montage of sign fragments that cohere in words
This is a color montage with a jazzy sound track

The film ends back in black and white where the figure merges with a silhouette that is part of an ad. The idea being that he merges with this other world.

Comm Lab Flash Animation

This is your life
a flash animation for com lab
to view click here

Comm Lab animation

without sound

with sound

Comm Lab garage band

Corey and I created this piece using garage band.

click here

we could call it Hugo's Ball.

It was inspired by a sound poem by Hugo Ball. Hugo Ball was a German author and poet born in 1886. He was a founding member of Cabaret Voltaire whose memeber also included: Tristan Tzara, Hans Arp, Marcel Janco and Richard Huelsenbeck. According to Hugo Ball, inventor of dadaist phonetic poetry, "we must withdraw into the deepest alchemy of words, reserving to poetry its most sacred ground."

For more sound poems by Ball and other great stuff visit ubu.com

Comm Lab Sound Collage

Here is a low resolution version of the sound collage Eddie and I created. We called it Artificial Earth. Funny thing is today, if you click on google (10/4/07) its the anniversary of Sputnik.

Comm Lab Marshall McLuhan

This is a visual response to McLuhan.
The Medium [MEDIA] is the Message.

Comm Lab Photoshop Assignment

Here are the 3 images our group made together:

Comm Lab 3 Video Sites

Explore three video sharing sites and write a review

You Tube is the accepted standard of video sites. It has a tremendous archive and a lot of art posts. Yes everyone can upload their work and share it, i guess thats the point. I put one video on You Tube but have spent little time viewing what is there. When I do visit the site I find it easy but I just don't make time to look at videos on line.

I noticed that google now has a video link as well. I guess it goes to You Tube.

Most sites, have the same interfaceas You Tube. ifilm.com was an early film site as was atomfilms.com. To me they are all the same.

Comm Lab Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin's The work of art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction basically talks about the idea of aura and questions whether an object's aura disappears with mechanical reproduction. In the digital world of today the question of aura and truth are further complicated. When Benjamin was writing the idea that a photograph could be massed produced and was seen as a reproduction of reality was new. Today we are used to photography's reproduction. What interests me is the idea of truth and how i no longer believe that any image I see is not digitally manipulated. It might still have an aura and wow me but I do not believe that it was what was framed in the view finder. Most photographers enhance their images, tweak the color or even combine negatives. These images are often presented without acknowledging this manipulation.

The following 3 videos were made in response to Benjamin.

Comm Lab 30 second video

This was a class project to make a 30 second video