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..how good was that exhibition!
The V & A curated a superb group of digital work. We must try to create/ make more installation ideas at college.
+ the looping short video clip wall for the degree show would be an excellent idea even if its not interactive!
Post your photo and video blog links from Decode in the comments.
this is just the most awesome news
the indie version of unity 2.6 (previously $199) we have 10 licenses in room 106 is now F R E E
the pro version is still $1500 but the indie version is what you need to get started and very fully featured – it recently went cross platform and is just an amazing piece of software and it works brilliantly with C4D – we will be having a quick look in year 1, we teach it in semester 2 and last year a number of students used it for their double projects
F A N T A S T I C news – the news of the year to be honest – grab a copy before they change their mind
for some web demos (you ned to install the web plugin first) see this page
Don’t forget you have a presentation today
Today we watched a short film about Bill Viola’s work called Emergence.
(Other short work within Emergence were: Silent Mountain, Five Angels of the Millennium, The Quintet of the Astonished and Going Forth By Day).
Here are some of the themes discussed and alluded to:
the idea of representing presence
no longer around, echoes, silence
knowing something before and without words
using symbolism to convey thoughts
film time is not real time, not our time
simultaneous existence and representation
stirring without formal structure.
We also briefly looked at photomontage artist called Sean Hillen and his Irelantis work. Reconstructing history, retelling a narrative through multiple layered visual means.
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further to andy’s earlier post here’s the relevant passage from the information commissioners regulations for the installation of cctv
the full document is available here
9.2 Subject access requests
Individuals whose images are recorded have a right to view the images of themselves and, unless they agree otherwise, to be provided with a copy of the images. This must be provided within 40 calendar days of receiving a request. You may charge a fee of up to £10 (this is the current statutory maximum set by Parliament). Those who request access must provide you with details which allow you to identify them as the subject of the images and also to locate the images on your system. You should consider:
• How will the staff involved in operating the CCTV system recognise a subject access request?
• Do you have internal procedures in place for handling subject access requests? This could include keeping a log of the requests received and how they were dealt with, in case you are challenged.
• A clearly documented process will also help guide individuals through such requests. This should make it clear what an individual needs to supply.
You should decide:
• What details will you need to find the images? Is it made clear whether an individual will need to supply a photograph of themselves or a description of what they were wearing at the time they believe they were caught on the system, to aid identification?
• Is it made clear whether details of the date, time and location are required?
•What fee will you charge for supplying the requested images (up to a maximum of £10) and how should it be paid? Make this clear to people making access requests.
• How will you provide an individual with copies of the images?If images of third parties are also shown with the images of the person who has made the access request, you must consider whether you need to obscure the images of third parties. If providing these images would involve an unfair intrusion into the privacy of the third party, or cause unwarranted harm or distress, then they should be obscured. In many cases, images can be disclosed as there will not be such intrusion.
Example: A public space CCTV camera records people walking down the street and going about their ordinary business. Where nothing untoward has occurred, this can be released without editing out third party images.
Example: Images show the individual who has made the request with a group of friends, waving at a camera in the town centre. There is little expectation of privacy and the person making the request already knows their friends were there. It is likely to be fair to release the image to the requester without editing out the faces of their friends.
Example: Images show a waiting room in a doctor’s surgery. Individuals have a high expectation of privacy and confidentiality. Images of third parties should be redacted (blurred or removed) before release.
Where you decide that third parties should not be identifiable, then you will need to make arrangements to disguise or blur the images in question. It may be necessary to contract this work out to another organisation. Where this occurs, you will need to have a written contract with the processor which specifies exactly how the information is to be used and provides you with explicit security guarantees.
and here is an interesting article from the guardian
terms:
withhold
obstruct
abstract
replace
slur
blur
affect
remove
repeat
intend
silence
intimidate
remember/ reflect/ return/ rework
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second years – you have a module called Digital Narrative in the second semester
here’s a good example of the sort of thing – a childrens song (sesame street) with a single word bleeped out
what’s the word?
and it’s NOT the first one that comes to mind!
Next Monday’s lesson , we will be analysing and deconstructing the visual language of photographer Sally Mann.
Specifically from the ‘Immediate Family‘ work.
Each of you have to find 2 images from this series and be expected to talk about them to the group in a sophisticated and appropriate way. The group will then debate your conclusions and add in other ideas about the visual narrative.
FOR THE 2ND YEARS
Today, we have a visit from Lisa Gagliani the Chef Executive of the Kingston Chamber of Commerce who will be introducing the Kingston Business Champions awards ‘digital trophy’ project to you.
This will be in the LSDS portion of the session and we will start at 1.30pm promptly. So please be on time!
Do remember to bring your digital cameras this afternoon so that we can get on and experiment with staging images in the Digital Narrative session.
Digital Narrative – Monday 17th
*BRING YOUR DIGITAL CAMERAS*
We are going to be staging moments, using you as actors, choosing various nearby locations and props.
We’ll not be doing Reservoir Dogs etc.
A new video showing the basics of the Motion tab (i.e. Crop tools) via the Viewer window in FCP.
Also covered, the Opacity, Title safe, background colour and preview render (alt P) are in the tutorial video.
FCP MOtion tab – cropping tutorial in folder 111.
Today, download the footage located in folder 108 DN_footage.
1/ Choose one piece of footage and using a 1 minute long section, storyboard every shot and record the camera movement for each shot.
PDF storyboard panels x6 or x4 can be found in the same folder.
2/ Exactly choose two 30 second pieces of footage and edit them together using alternate shots from each piece to create a new 1 minute long narrative.
We will gather together at the end of the session to view the results.
For this coming Monday afternoons Digital Narrative session (+LSDS) you need to bring 3 things for the lesson:
1 a digital stills camera
2 clothing (which you’ll wear and photograph) that demonstrates something about class and another piece about gender
3 at least one newspaper from this week
We are going to start experimenting and combining ideas from different sources to create new outcomes.
