Berry McKee

Barry McKee's artist lectures are a dividing issue. Many people believe it to be great that McKee speaks so simply about his work and find it refreshing to hear an artist seem so down to earth as they speak. However, his lectures are extremely boring as they consist of minimal incite from the artist and a great multitude of questions from members of the audience, each met with a brief and uninformative response. One could learn much more about the artist with a simple use of google than through the attendance of one of his lectures and in this aspect McKee is far more presumptuous than an artist who actually takes the time to discuss his or her work during a lecture, in that he pretends to understand very little about the work which he himself created and tries to seem unsure of its substantiality while standing in front of a room full of college students and professors who have eagerly taken the time to come and hear him speak. Many find his attitude reminiscent of Warhol, though any attempt on the part of McKee to mimic Warhol is ill conceived at best as Warhol's simple method of answering questions was able to capture the nature of his art in a way that McKee's faked stupor can never come close to rivaling.

Video Essay Critiques

Katie
It was very polished and well organized.
It sounds like your voice is echoing a little bit.
Some pictures had nothing to do with what was being said.
Needs music.
Patrice
Music was great, but should have been lower than your voice.
Enunciate less.
Grainy pictures.
Coleen
Effects where great.
Music was louder than your voice.
Too much time about photography in general that should have been spent on silver eye itself.
Titles.
Julie
Great information.
Too many transition effects.
Jenna
Great definition of doors, helps to introduce door art.
Slow down.
Too much information outside of Pittsburgh.
Jumbled.
A lot of pauses.
Ariel
Poppie Yay!!!!!!
Focus on Pittsburgh.
Transitions.
Sound would be nice. lol
Emily
Nice music.
Muddy voice.
Some of the angles of the pictures made it hard to read the chalk art.
Slides too fast.
Jill
Cool psychedelic thing!!!
Louder.
Change videos more often.
All of the stills used the same effect, try some others.
Sarah
Nice blue prints and old pictures, they look hard to find.
Talk faster and less monotone.
Cut down interview time a little bit.

in class 17 comments on videos

Katie

Awesome range of pictures and use of diverse images

Speak slower

Slow down the effects/ time between the different murals

Maybe add subtitles to where the works are

Filter sound more

Patrice

Make your narration louder

Add some different transitions between the videos and pictures

Good use of video and pictures combined

Work on editing the video maybe make it clearer

Find some other fountain pictures maybe the point (are you trying to focus just on those two?)

Watch out for repeating images

Colleen

Add a title

Great choice of background music that fits the images

Make your voice louder

Great use of different photos and many images

Add credits

Julie

Add a title and who it is by

Try to fix the grain of the videos ( the purple part in the first video)

Great transitions

In the narration, watch the puffs of air that appear on the track

Add credits and fade into the music at the end

Jenna

Add a title

Work on fixing problems in the narrations

Slow down the narration

Add some music whether at the end, the beginning, or the under the narration

Nice variety of pictures

Ariel

Cool title and use of a wide range of pictures

Check the value/ make it louder

Add some transitions

Add your name to the title

maybe get a picture from South side tattoo of the outside of the door so you can read it

Gill

A title more time for the title

Turn up the narration

All the sounds needs to go up

Watch the grain of the images and the videos

Cool use of the music visualize I like the message at the end

Add some transitions between the music- fade in and fade out

Sarah

Add a title

Add background music

Good use of historical pictures

Maybe slow down the transitions

Slow down the narration

Good use of video

Add some transitions between the interview and the narration and make the volume the same between the interviewer and the interviewee

Critiques for Videos

Katie

Great pictures
Slow down voice
Slower transitions
Filter more sound

Patrice

Voice should be higher than audio
Video importation is good
Make it flow a little easier
Possibly focus on more fountains?

Colleen

Voice is great
More pictures
Maybe incorporate videos
Transitions

Julie

Make voice higher
Great description of the process
Ik you know this but fix the video audio with your own
Music? – make a bit louder to hear

Jenna

Talk slower
Movement of pictures slower
Pictures are very nice
Work on voice incorporated into the project

Ariel

Fix your audio
Focus more on Pittsburgh
Great description and research
Focus more on the art of tattooing rather than the world

Emily

Articulate
Pictures are really well chosen
Music throughout audio?

Gillian

Voice needs to be louder
Music engraved?
Work on the space transitioning
Great video

Sarah

Audio louder
Good historical information
Use more new pictures
Ending a little abrupt

Julie's Critiques

Katie
The information was very informative
The still clips went by too fast at the one part with the buses
Speak slower
Music in the background?

Patrice
The music went along really well
Keep the still images longer in the beginning
Lower the volume of the music and increase the voice soundtrack
The images turned out a little grainy

Colleen
The movement of your pictures was awesome
Increase your voice volume

Jenna
The pictures are well taken
Maybe take and keep a full shot of a door rather then moving up and down them all
Show more of the doors and could even keep them up longer if there aren’t enough

Ariel
The history and background was very informative
Check the copyrights of the photos you use
Show tattoos that are pitt focused
Increase volume

Emily
The addition of the text was a great idea
Fix your audio to try and make it clearer
Maybe give motion to the pictures
Music in the background?

Jill
Increase the volume of the audio
Video was a little shaky
Speed up transitions
Sharpen up pictures

Sarah
The video of the fireworks looked really great with the addition of the interview
Add music in the background
Pause more in between sentences
Figure out a conclusion

1 Love and 3 Hates: My Critiques of Classmates' Videos

 

Katie:

1. GREAT colorful, interesting, intriguing photos

1. speaking much too fast

2. you have a bit too much information 

3. many of your photos don't correlate with information/narration

 

Colleen:

1. fabulous photos that connect the audience with the information you are conveying

1. as you know...make your audio louder...

2. ...make your music quieter

3. some of your photo transitions are too fast 

 

Julie:

1. you have very interesting and specific images presented along with great information and video

1. put your audio up

2. fancy transitions are unnecessary

3. some photos are unclear

 

Jenna:

1. great and interesting photos

1. photos move too fast

2. your talking is way too fast

3. too much door history at the beginning

 

Ariel:

1. your subject matter is so intriguing and entertaining

1. you need more of your own photos, that you've taken

2. not enough information present

3. too much unnecessary information at the beginning about tattoo history

 

Emily:

1. great background information, very thorough

1. audio is too noisy

2. photos are a bit repetitive

3. maybe take away some of the words/questions

 

Gill:

1. great creative ways of portraying music, esp. with its visual portrayal

1. your audio is much too quiet

2. get rid of the black boxes

3. some pictures are too blurry

 

Sarah:

1. great firework footage

1. audio too quiet

2. too much unneeded beginning Cathedral information

3. talk too fast

Film Critiques by Patrice

1 Love and 3 Hates: My Critiques of Classmates' Videos

 

Katie:

1. GREAT colorful, interesting, intriguing photos

1. speaking much too fast

2. you have a bit too much information 

3. many of your photos don't correlate with information/narration

 

Colleen:

1. fabulous photos that connect the audience with the information you are conveying

1. as you know...make your audio louder...

2. ...make your music quieter

3. some of your photo transitions are too fast 

 

Julie:

1. you have very interesting and specific images presented along with great information and video

1. put your audio up

2. fancy transitions are unnecessary

3. some photos are unclear

 

Jenna:

1. great and interesting photos

1. photos move too fast

2. your talking is way too fast

3. too much door history at the beginning

 

Ariel:

1. your subject matter is so intriguing and entertaining

1. you need more of your own photos, that you've taken

2. not enough information present

3. too much unnecessary information at the beginning about tattoo history

 

Emily:

1. great background information, very thorough

1. audio is too noisy

2. photos are a bit repetitive

3. maybe take away some of the words/questions

 

Gill:

1. great creative ways of portraying music, esp. with its visual portrayal

1. your audio is much too quiet

2. get rid of the black boxes

3. some pictures are too blurry

 

Sarah:

1. great firework footage

1. audio too quiet

2. too much unneeded beginning Cathedral information

3. talk too fast

Video Critiques

Katie – A little fast spoken

            A lot of “sprout fund” logo shots in beginning

            A little fast with the ken burns sometimes 

            Great images of people actually painting the murals

                        Awesome specific examples 

 

Patrice – Love the song!

            However, turn it down a little maybe, and raise your vocals..

            Pictures a little of focus

            A lot of the same pictures

 

Julie – awesome pictures showing the process

            Music up a little.

            Adjust audio

            And obviously video audio needs tweeking 

            

Jenna – Talking super fast

Really fast moving pictures (little choppy) 

            Good match up with some of the visual with the audio & good quotes 

            More photos of the actual decorated doors in Oakland?

  

Ariel – allowed to use that many pictures that aren’t your own?

            Less global – you know that

Good shots of inside of south side tattoo – fact you talked to guy is a good thing – shots of people getting them done, looking for what they want – good

Didn't get to hear audio with visual like it will be in the end - so can't judge that

           

Emily – no music while talking? Little grainy with the voice anyway

A little fast with the pictures.

            AWESOME title effects

            Spelled sponsored wrong  

 

Gillian – really super low audio

            What is your topic?

            I think you used interviews – which is good

            A lot of music visualizer – find other images maybe?

  

Sarah – nice drawings of cathedral for design plan

                        Good statistics

            Up on the audio – music?

            Images moving a little fast

            Good interview voice behind with video&audio

            Ending?

----colleen