Monthly Archives: September 2014

Peter von Bagh lives on in our memories

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In memory of long-serving film history Professor Peter von Bagh, The Department of Film, Television and Scenography will be showing one of his most beloved films Helsinki, Forever (74 min, 2008) in the Sampo Hall of Media Centre Lume on Tuesday 30 September starting at 9:00.

The event will be opened by film director and Head of Department Jarmo Lampela, and the film itself will be introduced by producer Jouko Aaltonen.
Helsinki, Forever is an essay film that creatively makes use of old archive materials, photos, artworks, music, and quotes from literature; it is von Bagh’s wise and whole-hearted expression of love for this white city of the North and the films which speak of it.

All friends of Peter von Bagh, and all friends of film, are warmly welcome!

The Department of Film, Television and Scenography

Learn the basics of 3D modeling program Rhinoceros

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What:
Basic course in 3D modeling with Rhinoceros

Where and when:
Aalto Media Factory auditorium on Tuesday 14.10., Thursday 16.10. and Tuesday 21.10. at 17:00-19:30.Exercise session is held in the FabLab on Wednesday 22.10. at 13-16.

To whom:
Aalto faculty and students

This course will teach the basics of the 3D modeling program Rhinoceros. During the evenings we will go through exercises in which we will learn the basic workflow of Rhino from creating exact 2D curves, editing them and creating 3D surfaces and editing them. Both intense afternoons will continue with exercise sessions in the FabLab, where you can test your skills in practice.

Some of the basic commands learned: Line, Arcs, Circles, Ellipses, Fillet Curves, Extrude Curve, Rotate, Boolean, Fillet Edges, Sweeps and so on.

For the course you need your own laptop that has the Rhinoceros 4 or 5 software installed. You can download an evaluation version of Rhino 5 from the homepage of Rhino3D. The course material applies equally well to version 4 as to version 5 of Rhino.

The course will be held by Peter Kaario, an industrial designer at Innokas Medical Oy. Peter is experienced teacher in Creo2, Rhino and Pro Engineer programs.

Register to the course here. There are places for 25 people in the course. You will get a confirmation email about your registration from Leena Närekangas latest on October 7th.

For more information:
Producer Leena Närekangas, 050 342 7114,  leena.narekangas@aalto.fi
Teacher Peter Kaario, 040 740 6804, pkaa@plasticity.fi

 

Register now for Media Factory video school 2.0 in October!

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Do you need to make an interview-based video related to your research or study project? Want to get familiar with Media Factory’s AV equipment?

The new, improved Media Factory video school is here! According to feedback from the previous course, we extended the course to the length of one week to have time for more learning. The course focuses on making a short, interview based documentary video, such as the Aalto Snapshots. We will learn to use Media Factory’s own video equipment that you can borrow for your production later on!

In the beginning of the week we learn the basics of shooting video and recording quality audio with hands-on exercises. In the end of the week, we will learn how to edit video and audio with Adobe Premiere. During the course the attendants will produce their own, short interview based video in groups. Please bring your own idea for a 3-5 minute interview based documentary film and prepare to present it to your group in the beginning of the week. One idea out of four will be actually produced in each group!

The course teachers are three master students from the Department of Film, Television and Scenography. They study the fields of cinematography, sound recording and sound design, and film editing and are now ready to give you tips on how to make your video look and sound better!

Registrate here until 29th of September! We will inform you on the 6th of Oct whether you were selected for the course.

The course will be held from 20.10. – 24.10.

Course topics in brief:
– shooting video with Canon 5D (focus on interview situations)
– recording speech with professional gear
– editing image and sound with Adobe Premiere

Preliminary schedule:

MON 20.10.

Morning: Brief introduction lecture: planning your production, basic concepts of camerawork and audio recording. Going briefly through the camera- and recording equipment used during the course.

Afternoon: Four guided interview exercises in four groups: camera, lighting, recording audio, directing/interviewee. Getting to know the equipment better and learning the roles in a video production.

TUE 21.10.

Morning: Reviewing the material produced during previous day’s exercises. Lecture: Analysis of the structure of an interview based short documentary (one of the Aalto Snapshots). Starting the group work: presenting and choosing the ideas.

Afternoon: Group work: planning and shooting each groups’ own documentary.

WED 22.10.

Morning: Group work: shooting each groups’ own documentary.

Afternoon: Lecture: Basics of digital video formats. Editing with Adobe Premiere: importing the material, syncing image and sound, basic editing principles.

THU 23.10.

Morning: Lecture: Where to find creative commons licensed music, images etc. that you can use on your video. Group work: editing the videos, guidance provided.

Afternoon: Lecture: Adding titles and basic color correction. Smoothing sound in Premiere. Group work: editing the videos, guidance provided.

FRI 24.10.

Morning: Finishing touches. Exporting the videos.

Afternoon: Premiere of the exercise documentaries. Feedback.

No previous knowledge on video productions is required for attending the course. The teaching language is English.

Register for the course here until 29th of Sep.

More information from Leena Närekangas – leena.narekangas@aalto.fi

Cancellation at the Researchers’ Breakfast

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Due to illness Researcher Helena Sustar won’t present her research at the Researcher’s Breakfast on Sept 9th.

Researcher Mariana Salgado will start the breakfast at 9.00 with her topic “I hear voices” – Augmenting audiovisual archives by including immigrants in remix practices.

The food is served between 8:30 – 10:00.

Welcome!

 

Media Lab Helsinki 20th anniversary events

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The seminar:

The 20th anniversary seminar focuses on topics currently in the forefront of discussion at the Media Lab. Hot topics, cool guys. The seminar will be held on Thursday 25.9.2014 10.00-17.00 (ending time subject to change) at LUME. Open for all! More information will be updated onto our website later: medialab.aalto.fi

20th anniversary Book: Media Lab Helsinki 20 – Hands on with Minds on:
We will launch of our new 20th anniversary book at the seminar. The book is written by Olli Sulopuisto, based on a series of interviews of key figures in the past and present of Media Lab. The covered themes represent topics, which are especially relevant today in the Media Lab.

Exhibitions of New Media projects from the Media Lab:

– Arts lobby & LUME gallery corridor: 20 years of new media – a chronological exhibition of works from the last two decades created by Media Lab students and researchers. Open 17.9. – 1.10.2014, Mon-Thu 8-19, Fri 8-18.

– Design Forum Showroom: An exhibition focusing on recent works by Media Lab students and researchers.
Open 16.9. – 1.10.2014, weekdays 12-18, weekends 12-16.

– Lasipalatsi Akkuna & Tovi spaces: Celebrating 100 years of Finnish Animation the Media Lab way: the creative uses of animation by Media Lab students and researchers. Open 16.9. – 28.9.2014, weekdays 12-18, weekends 12-16.

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