Introduction to Digital Media
ARS 162, Spring 2006
Instructor: Barbara Lattanzi

ARCHIVAL VIDEO AS A SOURCE FOR HYPERTEXT

PART 3 (FINAL)

NOTE NEW DUE DATE! (later than date previously announced in class).

PART 3 is due on Thursday, March 9

Critique will begin at the start of class.

You will have your project posted on your website and linked from your main page (i.e., linked from your "index.html" page).

Minimum of 20 images

Minimum of 10 texts.

Total number of XHTML webpages can range from one to over 10. (No minimum or maximum number of webpages).

CONCEPT:

You have an array of source materials to orchestrate into a story or situational description: archival film stills, photographic simulations that are approximate representations of those film stills, texts that serve to contextualize the film stills as metaphor for a personal memory or for a contemporary social/political situation.

We can call your assembled elements a database. Each element depicts something outside itself. The meaning of each image is "denotative", informational. The challenge for you now is to construct meanings that are "connotative", suggestive, evocative of something more than the original depiction. Do not depend solely on your texts for this connotative level of meaning. Instead, focus on the juxtaposition of images, suggestive juxtaposition of images and texts, and the hyperlinks that lead from one image to another, from a text to an image, from an image to a text, from image pairs to texts, etc.

PROCESS:

Use hyperlinks to structure the consecutive arrangement across multiple webpages of your images and texts. You may also compose your hyperlinks and image arrangements using Image Maps, Named Anchors (for hyperlinks within a single page), Tables, or Layout objects (using Div tags). You may also, optionally, layer texts over images using Photoshop layers.

All images should be saved out of Photoshop as "jpeg" format images. These images should have names that end with the .jpg extension. (Web-browsers will not recognize files that do not have proper extensions in their file names.)

EVALUATION:

This assignment will be evaluated based on the project's on-time completion (posted on the web), the technical working of all the hyperlinks and images embedded in the webpages, the playfulness of the formal analyses (as seen in the images that "mimic" the original film frames), the conceptual adventurousness of the juxtapositions (image with image, images with texts), your willingness to push yourself in unfamiliar (and possibly uncomfortable) directions.