In case I did'nt make this clear below,  Michel Gondry's website is so fun. Check it out if you like the avant-garde in web design!

Multimedia Characteristics

Some helpful aspects and definitions for recognizing MULTIMEDIA —

IF YOU LIKE ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:

• online digital games
• online learning
• programming for interactivity and [web] publishing
• video
• audio
• photography
• designing
• editing
• set and character design
• graphic motion design 
• animating
• writing
• composing
• lighting
• directing
• acting
• storytelling

AND WOULD LIKE TO WORK WITH:

• computers
• still or video cameras
• storyboarding tools
• design tools and software and web production 
• modelling, sculpting

THEN — you may just love a career in MULTIMEDIA!

Some of these details and other helpful information are contained
in the PDF document that you can download and review from McGraw Hill Publishing.
Just scroll down to the "Documents" post or click here for the downloadable PDF.

Thanks for listening! Write to me with any questions or for a copy of this Lesson Plan (PDF).
michaels.louise@gmail.com

Michel Gondry — cruise around his website

I love this guy!

I've always liked his work and his incredible websites. Click here.
Check out what he's up to for a real tour of multimedia on the web.


In 1995, he and his brother made an amazing"official" promo music video of "Like a Rolling Stone" by / with The Rolling Stones. The programming and digitizing of the video bends time and space in a way that was later imitated and copied by others.

This funny and creative film is a great place to start to become familiar with Gondry!




If you are ready to put your work out there and to the test of audience and critics and peers, there are many venues and places to do so.





http://vimeo.com/prospektfilm/cabbit

A mixture of stop motion splendor, inventive creations and re-creations, "mise-en-scène", a rich palette to explore: The Quay Brothers

Street of Crocodilles (1986) - trecho from Quay Brothers - Mostra de Filmes on Vimeo.

The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer, 1984

MoMA's promo 2012

I found a new Blu (Muto) animation to share. This one is sensational, and this time it is collaborative with another painting artist - David Ellis. For some reason it is repeated at about 4:10 in.

Percept Visual

"Cast a Net," and other videos, directed by Percept Visual's Brian Ziffer.

 

A fun and wonderful multimedia experience!
What comes to mind when I look at this body of work is the nature of curiosity. Are you often wondering how something was made? If something you see in this — or any — work that is stunning or disorienting and simply amazes you, or stirs a reaction... that is what a work of art should do. If you feel driven to attempt to learn about it, to attempt your own version or just feel moved to express something you've got in mind, you probably have the "bug" for investigating and perhaps making multimedia work.

Documents to download and to link to.

For further understanding, here is a PDF I found online explaining MULTIMEDIA in more depth. It's a good read. PDF link to Understanding Multimedia


In addition, this is an interesting timeline of sorts, on the history of multimedia going back the printing press and it states that Lady Byron, the first programmer for the "Difference Engine", considered to be the first computer invented by Charles Babbage.


Which brings to mind: COPYRIGHT ©2013

Nina Paley talks about Copyright and other issues such as cultural production and the making of her film specifically — great information.

Later on in your pursuit of expressing yourself and creating your own media, you, like so many others, may bump into The COPYRIGHT concerns.



http://creativecommons.org/

If you think you want to work at creating digital motion art, making films or video productions, animating by combining digital graphics and / or puppets, work with lights and sound and more... you may want to understand the stuff of multimedia.

There is a world of multimedia to experience on the web. For some lucky folk, there is a lot to consume right at our fingertips (iOS devices such as smart phones, pods and notebooks), in our homes or in our schools, perhaps on our library computers, which in itself is a form of multimedia = eLearning.

1 - Stop motion paper animation "The History of Typography"

2 - Sita Sings the Blues Trailer Actually, it gets much better from here. Go see the work of Nina Paley!

3 - My favorite to share: Muto
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.


4 - Magical work of Brian Ziffer.

5 - The multimedia work of Systemsoular and Naoism (which is Brian and others). One of their concepts was NAOISM. This is a Flash GUI.

6 - The game art and multimedia work of Chuck W. Lapp Blog Portfolio may be more your style and interest.

7 - The New Jersey History Partnership Project. I designed this and added a component of interactive "game" to learn history with. This is for teachers in the State of NJ, or anyone interested in learning some NJ related history. I used Flash, Illustrator, video content, audio content, photography. This is a very good sample of mixed or multimedia for learning and pleasure. Teachers can download a PDF.


8 - Me. Here you can have a look at some stills of motion work, 3D modelling, and film work I have done in the past. I am working on new projects as well, currently finishing up a feature film with many other Vermont filmmakers and starting an animated film for kids called "The Tales of Penny & Black".