====== sessions: CONTROLLERS ======

=== Session 08 - Fri 5th June ===


==== SESSION SECTIONS ====

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<note warning> **STUDENT PRESENTATION - SCREEN SAVERS**

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students present their screen savers

(45 mins)


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<note> **PRESENTATION -  VJ Tools**
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**Contexts**

- club / festival / band / streaming

**Software**

- VDMX - http://vidvox.net 

- Arkaos VJ - https://vj.arkaos.com/

- Resolume - http://resolume.com/

- Modul8 - http://www.modul8.ch 

- Signal Culture - Video Mixer - http://www.signalculture.org/video-mixer.html#.XtVlpMZ7kWo 


<hi cyan > VJ examples </hi>

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<note important >**DEMONSTRATION - VJ Mixer pt 1**
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Make a simple VJ interface

1. MEDIA

2. FX

3. MIXER

- Movie Player

- Start / length / speed

- Video Mixer

- daisy chain FX

- mixers / monitors


<hi yellow > VIDEO - VJ interface</hi>

<hi magenta > PATCH - VJ interface </hi>

<hi lime > Ingredients - video </hi>

<hi lime > Ingredients - music </hi>

<hi cyan > LINK - Archive.org - https://archive.org/details/stock_footage </hi>

<hi cyan > LINK - PEXELS - https://www.pexels.com/videos/  </hi>

<hi cyan > LINK - Beeple - https://www.beeple-crap.com/vjloops  </hi>

<hi cyan > VJ Loops - https://www.vjloops.com/ </hi>

<hi cyan > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWCZsXXifZmYDqhIMionUg4MK-oUgShKK </hi>




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<note tip >**EXERCISE - MINI VJ**

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1. Using the ingredients given - record a 1 minute mix to a provided track.

2. identify 3 changes in the track - 3 moods / shifts

3. make 3 visual changes as it plays


<hi lime > Ingredients - music </hi>

<hi yellow > VIDEO - how to record sound </hi>

<hi cyan> LINK - SOUNDCLOUD  https://soundcloud.com/furozh/time-zones-obuxum-x-furozh </hi>

<hi cyan > LINK - OBUXUM - time zones - https://obuxum.bandcamp.com/track/time-zones  </hi>

<hi cyan > MUTEK - amplify - http://www.mutek.org/en/amplify/about </hi>

<hi cyan >  NFB - Parity - http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/en/about-the-nfb/parity/  </hi>

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<note warning >**HOMEWORK - INGREDIENTS**
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You can't cook without good ingredients!


- Find 9 clips to work with for next session. Consider making them yourself! 

- keep it simple

- do they make a 'set'?


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<note warning >**ASSIGNMENT - PERFORMANCE**
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We are going to perform a collaborative VJ set

1. choose a music track (3 - 5 mins)*

2. prepare a LIVE VJ performance to that track, using your own video ingredients (found, made)

3. be ready to perform at the next session!

- 9am - drop in / rehearse / tech questions

- 10am - performance

- 11am - review

* make sure you send me your chosen track by 1pm Tuesday




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