Intermission: Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule Winter Semester 2009/2010
During the Winter semester 2009/2010 Gabriel led a class of 23 fourth semester motion design students at the Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule in an Analog Motion Graphics assignment to collaboratively re-create a vintage drive-in movie theater intermission film. The original intermission film was obtained from the Internet Archive. Gabriel transcribed the audio track into an eleven page screenplay which, together with the audio, was used as the basis of the assignment. Students were not shown the original film until the end of the semester at the final presentation.
Using the audio and text as a guide, each group of students pitched concepts for their favorite of the 25 different clips in the film and created approximately 60 seconds of material using Analog Motion techniques. Students often spoofed the informational/commercial messages in the film, offering a critical and at times farcical update to the dated language and cultural assumptions from the 1960s-era film.
Gabriel’s BTK students view the original intermission film alongside their version for the first time as a group at the final presentation.
Web Station IDs: Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule Summer Semester 2009
Composer Shingo Inao gives Gabriel’s BTK students feedback on their work at the final presentation.
During the Spring semester 2009 Gabriel led a class of approximately 50 fourth semester motion design students at the Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule in an Analog Motion Graphics assignment to create station ID video clips. Each group of students picked a social media website of their choice and created four short clips using Analog Motion techniques. The class framed social media websites as a step in the evolution of the conventional TV channel; seeing websites such as Vimeo and Flickr and Twitter as aggregation services which create a brand identity through user-generated content selections.
Using eight pieces of original electro-acoustic music composed by our colleague Shingo Inao, the students were encouraged to explore different techniques for visualizing each voice in the musical compositions. The animated films of Oskar Fischinger were taken as an inspiration for this kind of one-to-one audiovisual mapping process. Staying true to form, Shingo used recordings of analog instruments as the primary sources for his musical compositions.
Sample BTK student works:
Check out the Analog Motion Graphics Vimeo channel for more student works.
