Schedule

Aug 23 Aug 25
Introductions – ourselves

Cyprien Gaillard (2015) Where Nature Runs Riot

https://vimeo.com/138218746

Candeiz Breitz (2005) King

(Excerpts: Wanna be Starting Something, Billy Jean)

https://vimeo.com/74959758

John Smith (1976) The Girl Chewing Gum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57hJn-nkKSA

Tehching (Sam) Hsieh (1980-1981) One Year Performance

http://www.ubu.com/film/hsieh_clock.html

INTRO ASSIGN #1

Introductions – our cameras + framing

Shirin Neshat (1996) Turbulent

Marie Menken (1958-61) Arabesque for Kenneth Anger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqZks9JviDE

Chris Marker (1962) La Jetee

CAMERAS – THE LENS elements, focal length, prime, zoom, aperture, f-stops, focus, depth of field

FRAMING to define space, time, and subject. Aspect ratio, composition, angle, shot size.

RECAP ASSIGN #1

TECH READ: Bill Brown Ch 3, 6, 7

Aug 30 Sept 1
CAMERAS  – the film camera

A VERY Brief History of Early Film

CRIT#1

INTRO ASSIGN #2

THEORY READ: (for Sept 1) Scott MacDonald on Single Shot Film

Cameras – FILM vs digital, the digital image

The Single Shot film

Larry Gottheim (1970) Fogline

Bruce Baillie (1966) All My Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYk–AB5nXY

John Baldessari (1971) I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art

http://www.ubu.com/film/baldessari_boring.html

Martha Rosler (1975) Semiotics of the Kitchen

http://www.ubu.com/film/rosler_semiotics.html

Deborah Stratman (2014) Hacked Circuit

https://vimeo.com/83398332

Lyn Elliot (2005) The Boy In the Air

https://vimeo.com/168982537

LIGHTING – key, fill,

RECAP ASSIGN #2

DISCUSS MacDonald reading

TECH READ: Bill Brown Ch 3, 6, 7

Sept 6 Sept 8
How To Crit An Art

A Very Brief History of Video

READ1, SKIM 1 (for Sept 8):

Kris Paulsen – In The Beginning…

Greenberg — Modernist Painting..

INTO ASSIGN #3

Medium Specificity – display technologies

DISCUSS Greenberg & Video Specificity

In The Beginning of MTV Broadcast August 1, 1981

http://www.rapbasement.com/videos/333719/mtv-first-day-of-broadcast-8181-part-1.html

Nam June Paik (1969) Electronic Light Ballet from WGBH’s broadcast The Medium is The Medium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIBEaszndLA

Nancy Holt & Richard Serra (1974) Boomerang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z32JTnRrHc

Joan Jonas (1972)Vertical Roll

http://ubu.com/film/jonas_vertical.html

HOW DIGITAL VIDEO WORKS

RECAP ASSIGN #3

Sept 13 Sept 15
History of Editing Technology

EDITING Digitally

Dziga Vertov (1929) Man with A Movie Camera (sound by Alloy Orchestra, 1995) (editing room sequence) https://youtu.be/7ZkvjWIEcoU?t=1177

READ Eisenstein on Montage

CRIT#3

EDITING intro to Premiere

MONTAGE THEORY

ASSIGN #4

Sept 20 Sept 22
EDITING Premiere Part 2

CRIT#4

GLITCH VIDEO

Trecartin

INTRO TO CODECS

EXPORTING

ASSIGN #5

Sept 27 Sept 29
EDITING Premiere Part 3

CRIT#5

CAMERALESS FILMS IN DIGITAL WORLD

EDITING Premiere Part 4

ASSIGN #6

Oct 4 Oct 6
CRIT#6

ASSIGN MIDTERM VIDEO

EDITING Premiere Part 5
Oct 11 Oct 13
MIDTERM TECHNICAL FALL BREAK
Oct 18 Oct 20
CRIT MIDTERM VIDEO EDITING Premiere Part 6

INTEGRATION with After Effects

ASSIGN #7

Oct 25 Oct 27
CRIT#7 EDITING Premiere Part 7

further with After Effects

ASSIGN #8

Nov 1 Nov 3
CRIT#8 EDITING Premiere Part 8

further with After Effects

ASSIGN #9

Nov 8 Nov 10
CRIT#9 EDITING Premiere Part 9

further with After Effects

ASSIGN #10

Nov 15 Nov 17
CRIT#10

ASSIGN FINAL

ASSIGN FINAL

INDIVDUAL PROJECT DISCUSSION

Nov 22 Nov 24
INDIVDUAL PROJECT DISCUSSION                INDIVDUAL PROJECT DISCUSSION

StoryBoards DUE

Nov 29 Dec 1
ROUGH CUT SCREENING INDIVDUAL PROJECT DISCUSSION
Dec 6
INDIVDUAL PROJECT DISCUSSION
Wed, Dec 14, 4pm
Final Critique

CAMERA CHECKOUT (from Cage, Hopkins 3–)

Available:

Canon EOS Rebel T5 +  18-55mm  lens + 16GB SD + 2 Batteries + charger + Macro of .8ft

1 lightweight tripod

Availability:

                  Checkout periods: Mon – Wed, Wed – Fri, Fri – Mon

Return by 11am on due date

Checkout after noon on start date

First come, first served

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OTHER EQUIPMENT CHECKOUT

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