I attended this workshop (at the Berlin Summer University of the Arts) in Berlin in August. I thought I had written about it already, and I did, but only in my notebook. So here’s a wee review.
Well, I thought it was for Beginners, but most of the participants said on the first day (14th August) that they had been involved in videos in some way or other, I was the only one who wasn’t! I had spent the previous evening until midnight installing and trying to understand Adobe Rush. It seems pretty straightforward, but I haven’t found out yet where everything is in the programme.
We were told the basic outline of the functioning of the workshop:
In the morning – Watch some clips from Hollywood and innovative movies on a particular theme or relationship
Discuss the clips
At midday and early afternoon – make some video clips, based on the relationship theme of the day
Later -edit the video clips to make a coherent video
Present the video and get constructive criticism.
Relationships
Day One – Rhythmic – solo work https://spaces.oca.ac.uk/wallet6/wp-content/uploads/sites/3554/2023/09/triple-sequence_David-Wright-smaller.mp4
Day Two – Graphic – solo work https://spaces.oca.ac.uk/wallet6/wp-content/uploads/sites/3554/2023/09/Graphic-Sequenc-01v2_David-Wright.mp4
Day Three – Spatial – group work https://spaces.oca.ac.uk/wallet6/wp-content/uploads/sites/3554/2023/09/Final_class.mp4
Day Four – Spatial – group work https://spaces.oca.ac.uk/wallet6/wp-content/uploads/sites/3554/2023/09/Tears-smaller.mp4
Day Five – Temporal – group or solo work
I didn’t get to finish the video for Friday as I had technical problems – I shot my clips that day with my ‘good’ camera, the XH2S, but I didn’t have the codec for the hi-res shots on my computer and I didn’t have time to sort it out. Should have stuck with the X100f. I’ll do it sometime when I have time to sort this out.
The workshop was a lot of hard work, but very interesting and might well prove to be useful in the future.
