The Student Notebook Program webpage.
FCP > Easy Set Up DVPal 16:9 > 16:9 anamorphic
Compressor DVD (video file)
* make sure 4:3
You need to make 2 files the video and audio separate
* the audio file is set to use dolby digital 2.0
drop in the video file DVD
DVD Studio Pro set (16:9 letterbox) on the track in outline window – build
Toast > Video TS Folder
Project assignment and 2009 Showcase settings for video files exported in FCP.
The FCP project is set up as standard DVPal or DVPal > Anamorphic depending whether the footage was recorded 4:3 standard or 16:9 anamorphic.
A self-contained FCP QuickTime file is created by exporting a QuickTime movie and checking make self-contained.
Menu > File > Export > QuickTime Movie > check make self-contained > Submit
The 16:9 exports will look squeezed when tested in QuickTime – this is fine as they will be corrected on import to FCP and Paul is playing out of the computer for the best resolution on the night.
Steal This Film II – The final lecture this week is a screening of the documentary ‘Steal This Film II’ made by a group that call themselves ‘The League of Noble Peers’. The documentary looks at the resistance towards intellectual property and has been distributed using BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing on the Internet and is said to have been viewed by around 4.86 million people.
‘The League of Noble Peers’ which is not assigned to any particular person or country is seen as being an ‘open network’ that shares the credit of this production. From their perspective everyone in this room as seen as being part of ‘The League of Noble Peers’ as producers and distributors of content on the Internet.
The two-part series is linked to ‘ Oil of the 21st Century – Perspectives on Intellectual Property’ conference held in Berlin in 2007.
Steal This Film I (2006) looked mainly at the Pirate Bay. A website that is said to be one of the biggest trackers of BitTorrent file sharing and has been through numerous lawsuits. BitTorrent is peer-to-peer file sharing protocol that is used to facilitate the distribution of large files of data like for example video and audio files.
Steal This Film II the sequel to the first documentary is a broader inquiry into piracy and copyright issues. Cory Doctrow provides a useful short overview in his review on Boing Boing (quote):
…it covers the technological and enforcement end of the copyright wars, and on the way that using the internet makes you a copier, and how copying puts you in legal jeopardy. Starting with Mark Getty’s (Chairman of Getty Images) infamous statement that “Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century,” the filmmakers note that oil always leads to oil-wars, and that these are vicious, ill-conceived and never end well. This leads them to explore the war on copying — which ultimately becomes a war on the Internet and those of us who use it.
References:
Wikipedia 2007, Steal This Film, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_This_Film
Doctorow, C 2007, Steal This Film, Part II: the Internet makes us into copiers, http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/29/steal-this-film-part.html
HTML DOG Library page
First to recap a HTML DOG library page that can be used as a reference point for the lessons up to the tables exercises.
Absolute and Relative Links
Also, in this page is some absolute and relative links. Including showing how images can be embedded using a relative or absolute links.
The CompuGoddess provides some clarity on relative links in this webpage showing the varying ways you link to documents in the same directory/folder.
Tables
A tables webpage collecting together the HTML DOG lessons into one page with table examples and links to other resources. Tables are complex and there is a lot to learn. I think the best approach is to work through the basics using something like HTML DOG and w3schools and then use resources like Daniel’s table website.
Chose one of these tables that works close for you as a template and learn by adapting the code by adding in your own content.
In this presentation Iook at extract two for the networked media project assignment:
Mortensen, Torill, and Jill Walker. “Blogging Thoughts: Personal Publication as an Online Research Tool.” Researching Ict’s in Context. Ed. Andrew Morrison. Oslo: University of Oslo, 2002. 249-79. p.259.
Weblogs are densely interlinked. This anchors blogs in the public arena, as part of a communal discourse. Posts to a blog can be very short and unpretentious. The threshold for publishing a single post is very low. This allows single, small, insignificant ideas to be expressed and formulated. Sometimes these thoughts are left as they are. A paragraph is enough and there is no more needed. Other times, the ideas grow. Someone links their site to the first post, comments on it, and a conversation grows forth. The initial post, or follow-ups, are linked to a web site or a newspaper article or something else. Links are like roots, tendrils, reaching out between fragments, creating a context for bits and pieces that at first glance may seem to be unconnected fragments.
References:
Bardzell, J March 209, Discourse Analysis vs. Close Reading, September 2009, http://interactionculture.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/discourse-analysis-vs-close-reading/
Berners-Lee, T 2009, Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web, TED, http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html
Wesch, M Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us, YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
Berners-Lee, T 2006, Linked Data, viewed September 2009 http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html.
Bunting, K The Telegraph Wired 50: Heath Bunting, September 2009, Networked Art, http://www.irational.org/_readme.html.
Stallanbrass, J 2003, Internet Art: The Online Clash of Culture and Commerce, Tate Publishing, London.
Greene, R 2004, Internet Art, Thames and Hudson, London.
Berners-Lee, T, Hendler, J, Ora & Lassila 2001, ‘The Semantic Web’, viewed 20 September 2009, http://www.si.umich.edu/~rfrost/courses/si110/readings/in_out_and_beyond/semantic_web.pdf.
This Internet art work readme.html: Own, Be Owned, or Remain Invisible (1998) by Heath Bunting has a major influence for the approach I have taken towards this extract. From a review:
NeMe: Why Have There Been No Great Net Artists? by Steve Dietz
Bunting’s readme.html: Own, Be Owned, or Remain Invisible3 (1998), links the words of an article about him in the Telegraph of the “Wired 50” to eponymous dot com web addresses is a brilliantly simple net.(decon)struction of the commerce of the celebritization process.
readme.html foregrounds the centrality of the link and the domain name, here each work links to an equivalent domain (every.com, word.com becomes.com dot.com com.com)…
…Bunting modifies the authority of Flint’s article by appropriating it into his own set of concerns and idioms.
Greene, R 2004, Internet Art, Thames and Hudson, London. p. 43
readme.html is a playful formal trick that encourages the user to think about the conventional structure of the web.
Stallanbrass, J 2003, Internet Art: The Online Clash of Culture and Commerce, Tate Publishing, London. p.29
(from the extract) ‘interlinked’
This lecture is an experiment to demonstrate potential approaches that could be taken towards the hypertext essay. I do not see this lecture as being emblematic of a close reading as Miek points out in this post ‘Jeff Bardzell on close reading’ Although, it could be argued that the approach taken has an element of deconstruction and quote being “unique, individual, and subjective” as Bardzell points out.
Bardzell, J March 209, Discourse Analysis vs. Close Reading, September 2009, http://interactionculture.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/discourse-analysis-vs-close-reading/
I want to stress that some of the hypertext essays that you produce may not work, or end up being what you planned to make. In other words these essays are allowed to fail in regards to your own expectations. But, only if you can identify why they failed, why they did not quite work in terms of what you imagined. It is your understanding of the process you went through that is important rather than the focus being on the finished result.
That is why it is important to blog the process of researching and making this project assignment.
So, I jumped in the deep end and decided to imagine this hardcopy extract as part of an actual blog post like we see here. With this extract on the Internet I wanted to then add links to the extract itself as a way to develop the idea of links ‘creating a context for bits and pieces that at first glance may seem to be unconnected fragments.’ I needed this extract to ‘grow’ by using links.
(from the extract)
Someone links their site to the first post, comments on it, and a conversation grows forth.
Mortensen, Torill, and Jill Walker. “Blogging Thoughts: Personal Publication as an Online Research Tool.” Researching Ict’s in Context. Ed. Andrew Morrison. Oslo: University of Oslo, 2002. 249-79. p.259.
(from Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web)
In fact, data is about our lives. You just — you log on to your social networking site, your favorite one, you say, “This is my friend.” Bing! Relationship. Data. You say, “This photograph, it’s about — it depicts this person. ” Bing! That’s data. Data, data, data. Every time you do things on the social networking site, the social networking site is taking data and using it — re-purposing it — and using it to make other people’s lives more interesting on the site.
Berners-Lee, T 2009, Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web, TED, http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html
Wesch, M Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us, YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
Blogs as social media tool and links playing a pivotal role in that social exchange is made evident in Michael Wesch’s ‘Web 2.0…The Machine is Us/ing Us’ video clip (Quoted from the video clip)
Digital text is no longer just linking information…
Hypertext is no longer just linking information…
The Web is no longer just linking information…
Web is linking information…
Web is linking people…
Web 2.0 is linking people…
people sharing, trading, and collaborating…
(3.44)
(from the extract) ‘creating a context for bits and pieces that at first glance may seem to be unconnected fragments.’
Mortensen, Torill, and Jill Walker. “Blogging Thoughts: Personal Publication as an Online Research Tool.” Researching Ict’s in Context. Ed. Andrew Morrison. Oslo: University of Oslo, 2002. 249-79. p.259.
John Maeda a well known design practitioner and theorist demonstrates in this presentation how a theme in this case ’simplicity’ can be developed and grown by making connections across random events.
(from the extract)
Links are like roots, tendrils, reaching out between fragments,
Mortensen, Torill, and Jill Walker. “Blogging Thoughts: Personal Publication as an Online Research Tool.” Researching Ict’s in Context. Ed. Andrew Morrison. Oslo: University of Oslo, 2002. 249-79. p.259.
(from Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web)
It’s not just a root supplying a plant, but for each of those plants, whatever it is — a presentation, an analysis, somebody’s looking for patterns in the data — they get to look at all the data and they get it connected together, And the really important thing about data is the more things you have to connect together, the more powerful it is.
Berners-Lee, T 2009, Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web, TED, http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html