New Lenses: Experimental Capture and Release Final Project

DUE MONDAY MAY 9TH

STILL ALIVE- STILL LIVES FOR THE MODERN DAY N00B

Congratulations for making it to the end of the semester! We will spend the rest of our class time working on a final project:

Prompt:
For your final, I’d like you to create an experimental capture based project using techniques and themes we’ve explored in class AND I’d like you to situate your project online for a virtual audience or irl by having it engage with a platform of your choosing.

Your project can be an intervention in an online space. Or it can use a public platform for an unexpected, critical, poetic or mundane purpose. Your goal can be virality OR to reach the smallest and most niche audience ever. You can approach this as an artwork, a design intervention, or a media content creation project. You can use platforms for their intended purposes, or misuse them creatively. This is super open ended so feel free to deviate from this prompt if you would like so that this project can become a portfolio worthy project for you going forward.

Consider the relationship between the subject of your work, the techniques you use, and the platform for engage with to ensure all three cohesively work together to best showcase your idea and reach your intended audience, whoever that may be.

I suggest approaching this assignment by choose at least one element of each column of the table below:

Capture Subject	Capture Technique	Platform for Release
Experimental Landscape	Photo Spheres	Google Slides/ Google Doc
Experimental Portrait	Screenshots	IRL Intervention
Experimental Event	Pixel Manipulation	Instructables
Experimental Still Life	Photogrammetry	Twitch
	Snap Filters	Youtube
	Machine Learning	Sketchfab
	Photo Viz / Data Viz	NFT
	Long Exposure	Tiktok
	Instructions	Instagram
	Animating from 2D	Website via Glitch
	Animating from 3D	Downloadable PDF
	Smartphone video “Hacks”	Tumblr
	3D scanning app	Webstore
	Time Lapse	Giphy

ex. Make an experimental landscape series using time lapse video and stream that footage of flowers over 48 hours on Twitch.

Final Project Schedule

W 4/20

Final Projects Kick off- asynchronous work day: Work on Blog Post DUE 4/25. See Info Below

4/20 IN CLASS ASSIGNMENT:
You can use our class time today, or 2 hours of your own time to complete this before Monday 4/25:

Please review the final project page : https://experimentalcaptureandreleasespring2022.com/2022/04/18/new-lenses-experimental-capture-and-release-final-project/
Please review look back over some of the techniques and themes we discussed so far this semester for inspiration
Please come up with THREE concepts for your final project, and make a blog post containing all three ideas. Each idea should include:
1. a) The Capture Subject, b) Capture Technique, c) Platform for Release you plan to use.
  (See the chart above)
2. A brief write up of your idea. (2-3 sentences)
3. A reference to accompany your idea in the form of a sketch, inspirational project or found image reference.
4. Please tag your post with FINAL PROJECTThree Idea Brain Storm

M 4/25

Proposal Blog Post due. In class work session for final project 1 on 1s and workshopping ideas together.

DUE WEDNESDAY 4/27:
Please edit the blog post you made containing your three ideas (or make a new post if you didnt make one yet) and answer the following three questions in your post:

1. Which idea are you are going to go forward with?
Has it changed since monday?

2. What is your project plan? (see sample plan below)
Please think through which parts of this project you want to have done by when. It’s ok if you end up deviating from this plan in the end, but hopefully this exercise helps you think through an approach to this longer final project that feels doable.

3. What can you show us by Next Monday 5/2? quick bullet points about what you expect to have done by next monday for us to take a look at.

Sample Project Plan
for made up project. plz replace details with steps needed for your specific project

W 4/27
Finalize idea. Have a sketch, research and draft of writing elements started. Start working on image generating.
Weekend 4/29
Spend weekend working on digital assets, final written elements. Make skeleton layout for interactive figma document (buttons work but images are not added) .
M 5/2
Show digital asset direction. get feedback on the figma layout.
W 5/4
Update layout, add assets, and test play game.
Weekend 5/6
Finish any remaining elements, and take screenshots and make gifs for documentation. Make blog post with final project.

M 5/9 FINAL PROJECT DUE review with guest artists

W 4/27

In class work session for final project Mini Lecture on virality. Show progress

M 5/2

Make up content report day. Mini Lecture on Documentation.
*students who have not given content reports yet will go today*

NEW LENSES: Experimental Capture and Release