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Electronic Gesture • Controlling Quicktime with Lingo
Instructor: Tiffany Holmes • tholmes@artic.edu • 312.345.3760

 

LINGO EVENT HANDLERS: on mouseDown, on mouseUp, on mouseEnter, on mouseLeave, on exitframe

LINGO COMMANDS: go to the frame, go to "name of marker", go to frame 1, beep, quit

LINGO FUNCTIONS: random()

LINGO PROPERTIES: movierate

DIRECTIONS: You need to use a Canon GL1 with a 4 to 6 pin firewire cable to complete this activity.

ACTIVITY ONE:

  1. Using Imovie, capture a 10-12 second clip of a single human gesture that involves physical movement of some sort: eye blinking, hand making fist, tongue rolling, etc. You might want to incorporate spoken sound here also. Edit it and create a quicktime movie from the clip.
  2. Make a new folder on your desktop titled YOURNAME_gesture. Inside that folder place a new folder marked Linked_Quicktime. Move your quicktime from the desktop to this folder.
  3. Now open director. Import your quicktime. It is now LINKED as a cast member. Save your movie in the folder marked YOURNAME_gesture (DO NOT put the director movie in the folder with the quicktime).
  4. Drag the quicktime movie into the score three times, that is, place a copy in sprite channels 1, 2, and 3.
  5. Now use the movierate property to have each move play at three different rates. Setting the movierate property to 1 ensures normal playback, setting to -1 plays the movie back in reverse as in the following example:

sprite(1).movierate=-1

ACTIVITY TWO:
  1. Using Imovie, capture 3 different clips of variations of the gesture used in activity one.
  2. Edit the clips into quicktime movies, saving to your Linked_Quicktime folder.
  3. Using Imovie, select one frame to export as a pict file (Go to File, and choose "Save Frame As"-save to the YOURNAME_gesture folder).
  4. Create a new Director movie. Import the 3 new quicktimes and the 1 picture (pict) file.
  5. In the Property Inspector, uncheck the Direct to Stage option for the quicktime movies then drag each movie into the stage.
  6. Drag the image to lie on top of the three movies.
  7. Layer the movies and the image (on top) to create interesting juxtapositions.
  8. Use the erase tool on the pict image and create some holes and areas for the underlying video to peek through.