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Recommended Texts

Amazon logo Rabiger, Michael. Directing – Film Techniques and Aesthetics. Focal Press, 2003. ISBN: 0240805178.

Amazon logo Rush, Michael. New Media in Late 20th Century Art. Thames and Hudson, 2001. ISBN: 0500203296.

Amazon logo Rush, Michael. Video Art. Thames and Hudson, 2003. ISBN: 0500237980.

Amazon logo Zettl, Herbert. Sight, Sound, Motion: Applied Media Aesthetics. Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1998. ISBN: 0534526772.

SES #TOPICSREADINGS
1Introduction to the Course
2Technical 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

5Introduction to Assignment #4: Personal Documentary (Autobiography)

Technical Workshop: Camera Supports
6Introduction to Assignment #4: Personal Documentary (Autobiography) (cont.)Amazon logo Rush, Michael. Introduction in New Media in Late 20th Century Art. Thames and Hudson, 2001. ISBN: 0500203296.
7Technical Workshop: Audio Recording

Introduction to Assignment #4: Personal Documentary (Autobiography) (cont.)

Technical Concepts, Resolution, Formats, Degradation, etc.

Amazon logo Rush, Michael. Introduction in New Media in Late 20th Century Art. Thames and Hudson, 2001. ISBN: 0500203296.

Amazon logo 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).

8Assignment #4: "Personal Doc"
9Introduction to Assignment #5: Personae and the Fictive Self (Autobiography)
10Technical 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.
11Individual Presentations: Lighting

Begin Individual Edits of Assignment #6
12Class Exercise: Screening of Completed "Hartley" Edits
14Production Time
15Assignment #5: "The Fictive Self"
16Individual Presentations: Cinematography
17Technical Workshop: Voice-over Narration

Individual Presentations: Sound
18Individual Edits of Hartley Scene
19Introduction to Assignment #7: Stories (Alternative Narratives)
20Individual Presentations
21Individual Meetings
22Individual Meetings (cont.)
23Technical Workshop: Final Cut Pro Color Manipulation
24Presentation of Final Project Treatment, Storyboards and Influences
25Technical Workshop: Creating DVD's using DVD Studio Pro 2.0

Individual Consultations
26Assignment #7: Stories (Alternative Narratives)

 








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