Author Archives: Manuela Toro

Hello everyone!

I asked prof. Kaufman today what we were going to do in our last class, and she suggested that we had a conversation about wether we want to do something special or not. We are probably watching a movie on Netflix,  but we can have a little breakfast too. What do you guys think? any ideas?

Hello everyone!

My video is an interpretation of “A Quiet Poem” by Frank O’Hara. I wanted to make an animation first, but when I started to analyze the poem verse by verse I realized it had a different, deeper meaning, and decided to show it this way. The poem touches the issue of sound, how noise and the activity of certain environments isolate us from what’s really happening around us, so my video uses a lot of different sounds. It was easy to choose the scenes, but very hard to find all the different noises. I am happy with the result, and hope you guys enjoy it! Hope to hear your opinions about the message I’m trying to send.

Thanks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF7R-WKtnfo

Hello guys!

I hope the videos are working out for everyone. I’m almost done but have a  little/major problem, I recorded a voiceover in a friend’s cool recording equipment, its saved as .wav, now I’m trying to open it in Garage Band to cut it in various “clips” so that the verses match with the scene I want them to, and it won’t open! Does anyone know how to convert it so that it opens in Garage Band, or maybe another program that will let me do this?

I know I can record voiceovers in iMovie, but this one has no background sound at all and I really like it. Plus, I don’t know if I will have enough time to record it again (I asked a friend with a nicer voice than mine to read the poem for me)

Thanks!

Hello everyone!

Has anyone used a Hitachi Camcorder before? I borrowed one from the library and spent the weekend filming my video, and now I want to import the clips into my computer and I can’t! I installed the software they gave me in the library and read the manual, but when I connect the camera to the computer there’s no way I can see the videos or import them, not even to the program I just installed.

Suggestions? I’m getting very nervous.

Hello everyone!

I just noticed something went wrong when I tried to post this afternoon, so here it goes again! It was very hard for me to choose a poem for this project, but I think I just found the perfect one. I’m going to work with “A Quiet Poem” by Frank O’Hara, which is a short poem that has a lot of simple images and an important message, and that’s just what I needed.

To make the video I first had the idea of drawing the poem in a sort of RSA Animation, but this weekend I came up with the idea of making a sort of collage by using a white board as “the stage” and then mixing drawings with clippings. I’m not sure if I’m explaining myself very well, its hard to describe, but I hope I can give you at least a sense of what I’m planning to do.

At this point I’m not so scared about the video anymore (I still am, but I feel like at least I have some ideas), but I’m having trouble finding my thesis statement because I haven’t come up with a concrete and specific argument about my poem yet.

I wish we could discuss all this further in class tomorrow. I’ve read some ideas and they look pretty cool, good luck to everyone.