Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Portfolio_VIP

video in print – the inclusion of very thin, very small videos within the printed medium

And why not? (well, other than expense, technical difficulty, proprietary technology, whatever…)

I don’t believe this is at all gimmickish - if done right. Animation could really explain certain works (as perhaps best shown by Joshua Prince-Ramus about his work on Ted Talks, see the last 3 minutes or so…), and would provide a completeness to the project that would be unobtainable any other way. This would, in a way, spoil much of the modeling technique spawned today throughout the profession – that is, only model what will render – and produce a stock of work that further investigates affect – another argument for the study of the workings of cinema in terms of architectural expression.

If nothing else it might better portfolios in some way – imagine using both print and video in the same printed portfolio…