Tuesday Section

This syllabus is only a guideline for the course, I may make changes to it as the course progresses.

Module 1: Video Laboratory
The objective of this module is for students to begin to create a framework from which to better understand the various aspects of time-based media in art and design and for students to become more consciously aware of how the element of time can be used expressively in their work, all in a dynamic, productive in-class collaborative laboratory like setting.
Skills: DV camera basics, editing in Imovie, integration of other media in video medium
Concepts: collaborative work, narrative and time, laboratory learning and production
Projects: footage reedit, title sequences, animation and video, Humdrum lives video project
Read: Mary Stewart chapters "Aspects and Elements of Time", "Narrative and Non-Narrative", "Interdisciplinary Art"
Look: in class video clips will be shown every week

Week one 1/24
In class video viewing
Demo: Shooting with mini dv cameras
Assgn: buy dv tape, bring dv tape and hard drive to class next week
Begin Humdrum lives by writing ideas, sketching shots, researching, brainstorming, shooting test footage

Week two 1/31
In class video viewing
In class project: traveling video
Demo: Capturing and editing in Imovie
Assgn: read Mary Stewart, Aspects and Elements of Time
Continue work on video project: shooting more footage, capturing onto your hard drive, experimenting with editing process, creating a thumbnail storyboard

Week three 2/7
In class video viewing
In class project: Redit footage
Demo: Importing photoshop images into Imovie
Assgn: read Mary Stewart Narrative and non-Narrative
Continue work on your independent video project, try to have a rough edit of the majority of the footage completed by this week

Week four 2/14
In class video viewing
In class project: found sound video project
Demo: Working with audio
Assgn: continue working on your own video, focus on sound this week
Read Mary Stewart, Interdisciplinary Art

Week five2/21
In class video viewing
In class project: Drawing and video animation
Demo: exporting from Imovie, video formats
Assgn: continue working on your own video

Week six 2/28
In class video viewing
In class project: create your own title sequence for your short video
Demo: projection/installation, looping/nonlooping, multichannel videos
Assgn: complete your short video for next week’s video screening
Final screening organization

3/7 no class spring break

Week seven 3/14
Critique videos
Discuss where ideas come from, what are sources for ideas
Assigned: images about a source

Module 2: Independent projects in narrative forms
The objective of this module is for students to have a chance to work independently and the projects and time are devoted to the student’s progress towards a more sustained and independent inquiry into topics of personal interest. Idea generating, research, scheduling, organization, editing, and reworking and focusing ideas will be the focus on in class conversation.
Skills: develop your skills in medium of your choice, deepen understanding of time and narrative
Projects: images about a source, independent project based on narrative concepts
Read: one individual reading to be assigned in meeting with me
Look: in class work in a variety of media will be shown every other week

Week eight 3/21
Look at images about a source presentations
Discuss creative practice methodologies
Begin work on your independent six week project--create proposal for project

Week nine 3/28
in class work on independent projects

Week ten 4/4
Individual meetings with me and TA to discuss your independent project—we will look at your project proposal

Week eleven 4/11
Go to gallery to see show, to be decided by class

Week twelve 4/18
Critique of independent projects

Week thirteen 4/25
In class work on independent projects

Week fourteen 5/2
Final critique