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Recommended Texts Rabiger, Michael. Directing – Film Techniques and Aesthetics. Focal Press, 2003. ISBN: 0240805178.
Rush, Michael. New Media in Late 20th Century Art. Thames and Hudson, 2001. ISBN: 0500203296.
Rush, Michael. Video Art. Thames and Hudson, 2003. ISBN: 0500237980.
Zettl, Herbert. Sight, Sound, Motion: Applied Media Aesthetics. Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1998. ISBN: 0534526772.
| 1 | Introduction to the Course | | | 2 | Technical Workshop: Demonstration of DV Cameras
In-class Exercise #1: "Camera Play" | | | 3 | Introduction to Assignment #1: "Abstractions" Technical Workshop: Introduction to Editing Lab and Final Cut Pro
Early History of Video Art Pt 1 | | | 4 | Introduction to Assignments #2 and #3: Edit "Abstractions" Early History of Video Art Pt 2: Aesthetics of the Video Signal
Nam June Paik and the Video Signal | | | 5 | Introduction to Assignment #4: Personal Documentary (Autobiography)
Technical Workshop: Camera Supports | | | 6 | Introduction to Assignment #4: Personal Documentary (Autobiography) (cont.) | Rush, Michael. Introduction in New Media in Late 20th Century Art. Thames and Hudson, 2001. ISBN: 0500203296. | | 7 | Technical Workshop: Audio Recording
Introduction to Assignment #4: Personal Documentary (Autobiography) (cont.)
Technical Concepts, Resolution, Formats, Degradation, etc. | Rush, Michael. Introduction in New Media in Late 20th Century Art. Thames and Hudson, 2001. ISBN: 0500203296.
Russell, Catherine. "Autoethnography from Journeys of the Self." Chapter 10 in Experimental Ethnography. Duke University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0822323192.
Wilt, Adam. "Uncompressed? Lossless?" DV.com Technical Difficulties Archive (accessed September 14, 2004). | | 8 | Assignment #4: "Personal Doc" | | | 9 | Introduction to Assignment #5: Personae and the Fictive Self (Autobiography) | | | 10 | Technical Workshop: Lighting
Introduction to Assignment #6: Group Exercise (In and Out of Class): Camera Placement and Continuity – "Hartley" | George Kuchar. “Tips on Directing.” Wide Angle , vol 13, no. 3–4 (July–October 1992): 13. | | 11 | Individual Presentations: Lighting
Begin Individual Edits of Assignment #6 | | | 12 | Class Exercise: Screening of Completed "Hartley" Edits | | | 14 | Production Time | | | 15 | Assignment #5: "The Fictive Self" | | | 16 | Individual Presentations: Cinematography | | | 17 | Technical Workshop: Voice-over Narration
Individual Presentations: Sound | | | 18 | Individual Edits of Hartley Scene | | | 19 | Introduction to Assignment #7: Stories (Alternative Narratives) | | | 20 | Individual Presentations | | | 21 | Individual Meetings | | | 22 | Individual Meetings (cont.) | | | 23 | Technical Workshop: Final Cut Pro Color Manipulation | | | 24 | Presentation of Final Project Treatment, Storyboards and Influences | | | 25 | Technical Workshop: Creating DVD's using DVD Studio Pro 2.0
Individual Consultations | | | 26 | Assignment #7: Stories (Alternative Narratives) | |
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