FREE VJ Clips!!!

First of all, thanks for the patch that Tim provided, which saved my life. It's really AWESOME !

This blog is about the link of FREE VJ Clips.

You can download without uploading new one.

Check it and have fun :P

http://www.archive.org/details/ANALOG_RECYCLING_VJ_LOOPS

Link Update

Sorry, links didnt load on last post:

LandEscape Teaser 2011 from John H. King on Vimeo.

After Effects PLugin Similar to Rutt Etra

Here is a cool After Effects plugin similar to the Rutt Etra plugin used in Jitt.

A lot more control with this plugin but it is an additional $500 smacks to purchase as well as the $900 price tag for AE. Gets a little pricy:) But, Some cool stuff can come out of this app.

http://vimeo.com/25597708

http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/trapcode-form/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6C-YNMXxG8&feature=related

Enjoy

-Tim

The Contrary of the Movie Theatre Response and Vasulka

I should not have been surprised that this article would somewhat bash movies by just the title alone. Like Pat said in class, Menotti pretty much defines projection design aka VJing, by everything movies aren't. For instance, movies and projections are both art form and they both have a performer, but unlike VJing, movies have a negative performance where the audience coherence depends on the story. Also the medium in which projections are displayed also contradicts movies. Menotti believes that movies are perfect for theaters because they contains the audience and enables them to keep focus. Projections on the other hand, can illicit a variety of mediums because setting can actually be part of the piece or provide an intimacy that a movie can't.

Vasulka Art of Memory

So, I watched a few vasulka clips and I still don't understand what is going on on this site. I mean I get they are mutations of videos with unique filters, but I feel they lack substance. It seems like they all were just experiments on how to use this tech at the time. The one thing I did notice that most of the clips had, were there synthesia aspects. The works flow with the sounds but the sounds are just that; Sounds. No musical quality of about them.

CONTRARY OF THE MOVIE THEATER

CONTRARY OF THE MOVIE THEATER

The reading presented an interesting point, contrasting VJs and traditional cinema roll projectionists. The author believes that the main difference is in improvisation vs. following a score (or script), as well as the performance emotion involved. In the first case, Menotti discusses the meticulous task of loading and connecting film roll for cinema. The projectionist needs to work within a confined time frame to allow the cinema to continue to roll without flaw or blemish. No one can argue that this requires a special skill and can be viewed as an art in it self, a performance if you will. As for VJs, the roll is less scripted and more along the lines of improvisation, where the arts has more freedom to create and manipulate inside their artistic influence. The two contrasting views can be akin to classical music vs. jazz improvisation. One if scripted and the other is free form.

Another point the author makes is the emotional result of the performance. A cinema projectionist invokes a negative emotion with their performance because the only time they are noticed is if they screw up. The film needs to run perfectly. A VJ has the ability to create and explore which creates a positive emotion. This point is interesting to me.

I also created several design in Jitter using the Etra Rutt plugin. This effect is very very very similar to After Effects inside a plugin called Red Giant, Form. It pretty much does the same thing with particles. It is pretty stinkin amazing.








This one is blown out using a thing called threshold: I tried to get different exposures.. not a fan of this one:(




Here is a duely video mixer I made with two chroma keyers and some graphics I made in After Effects:

The Contrary of the Movie Theater Response and the Rutt-Etra Synthesizer

This week’s reading by Gabriel Menotti delves further into the theory behind VJing by looking at the history and evolution of audiovisual performance. Gabriel Menotti looks at the metamorphosis of cinema into the digital medium, and compares its implications with VJing’s precursors such as “cinemas of attractions” and traditional cinema. One thing that I noticed about Menotti is his disappointment with the traditional cinema’s stiffening and prevention of digital cinema’s true potential. This potential is what Menotti’s whole arguments is mainly about, which is that traditional cinema seeks to force the audience into a frame, while VJing and digital cinema allows the audience freedom to interact and find their own narrative. Ultimately, Menotti is defining the projection specialist as a old, ridged model of cinema and the projection designer as a new, almost performer-like, free model of cinema.

As for the Rutt-Etra Synthesizer, it took a while to get it working, but I was able to get it to run with a properly formatted video. Whatever the case, this patch is amazing and it definitely creates some amazing images that could be used for other designs. Personally, I liked this tool. I’m still trying to get it to work with other examples, but the one I got to work so far is a with a video of machinery. I would like to find a video that doesn’t have too many black spaces for a later test, but so far this is a great patch.


-Nathan D

The Contrary of the Movie Theater and Scan Processing

I enjoyed this week's reading as the theorist (Gabriel Menotti) had a concise conveyance of opinion on the presentation of VJ projectionists. Menotti notes the improvisational, non-narrative form of VJ material, and contrasts it to the highly planned and produced works of the cinema. Lastly, Menotti notes the similarities between the highly technical roles of the VJ and the film projectionist, offering one large difference: he assigns the role of the VJ as a "positive performance", in which the VJ creates coherence from imagery. Menotti conversely assigns the role of a "negative performance" to the film projectionist, as it is the projectionist's job to avoid incoherence during the film.

I also downloaded the Rutt-Etra Synthesizer in Max MSP but was only able to get it to behave properly once [image of the chimp from this run-through]. The effect on the Rutt-Etra image looks very similar to the Woody Vasulka video I found, entitled "C-Trend", from 1974.






When I looked into further meaning for "C-Trend", I read that a Scan Processor was used to manipulate the raster and the line deflection of the image. The black areas of the image are not affected as they lack voltage, but the grey/white lines contain energy and can be heightened or depressed. The "Rutt-Etra Scan Processor" I then found out, is another name for the "Rutt-Etra Synthesizer", which I thought tied everything together nicely!