SCHEDULE

Thursday Sept 9         Introduction to Course

Screening:        Various Excerpts

Tuesday Sept 14         Technical Workshop: demonstration of DV cameras

In-class Exercise #1: Camera Play

Screening:        Basic Film Terms   Sheldan Renan

                                    H2O  Ralph Steiner; Abstractions Viking Eggling

                                    Rhythmus 21 Hans Richter; Analogue Joe Gibbons

    Assignment #1:        In-camera edit of Abstractions/Patterns

  Reading:        Introduction to New Media in Late 20th-Century Art

Thursday Sept 16       Technical Workshop: Editing 1 - FCP Log and Capture

Early History of Video Art Pt 1

            Screening:        The Electronic Canvas - WGBH;

Ballet Mecanique Fernand Leger

  Reading:        Dreams of Chaos chapter

Tuesday Sept 21         DUE - ASSIGNMENT #1: Abstractions/Patterns

                                    Technical Workshop: Editing 2 - FCP Basic Editing

Early History of Video Art Pt 2: aesthetics of the video signal

Nam June Paik and the video signal

Screening:        Nam June Paik, Peter Campus

     Assignment #2:       Silent Edit of Abstractions/Patterns

Thursday Sept 23       Technical Workshop: Audio Recording

Screening:        TBA

   Reading:

Tuesday Sept 28         DUE - ASSIGNMENT #2: Silent Edit of Abstractions

Technical Workshop: Editing 3 - Audio Editing

            Screening:        TBA

     Assignment #3:       Audio Edit of Abstractions

               Reading:

Thursday Sept 30       Technical Workshop: Camera Supports

Group Exercise: 7-shot Narrative

Tuesday, Oct 5                        DUE - ASSIGNMENT #3: Audio Re-edit of Abstractions

 Screening:       The Third Memory 2000  Pierre Huyghe

                                    Film Portrait Jerome Hill

Living in the World Joe Gibbons

The Target Shoots First Chris Wilcha

      Assignment #4:      Personal Documentary (autobiography)

    Reading:      Autoethnography from Journeys of the Self, Chap. 10 in Experimental Ethnography

Technical Concepts, Resolution, Formats, Degradation, etc

                                    ³Uncompressed? Lossless?² By Adam Wilt

Thursday, Oct 7          Yael Bantana: Three Films at List Visual Arts Center

                                    Technical Workshop: Editing 4: Effects

                                    Journal Due

Tuesday, Oct 12          DUE - ASSIGNMENT #4: Personal Documentary (autobiography)

Personae and the Fictive Self

Screening:        D Holzmanıs Diary David McBride
Yes Sir Madam Robert Morin; On Our Own Joe Gibbons & Tony Oursler

      Assignment #5:      The Fictive Self

Thursday, Oct 14        Technical Workshop: Lighting

Screening:        Hold Me While Iım Naked

Group exercise: Camera Placement and Continuity ³Hal Hartley²

   Reading:       "How to Light" by George Kuchar (Xerox)

Tuesday, Oct 19          Visiting Artist Matt McCormick       

Screening:        Matt McCormick films & videos

                        edit class shoot - Hal Hartley

Wednesday, Oct 20    Individual Meetings

Thursday, Oct 21        **6:30pm Peter Kubelka @ MFA        

Tuesday, Oct 26          DUE - ASSIGNMENT #5: The Fictive Self

Screening:

     Assignment #6:       Found Footage

               Reading:

Thursday, Oct 28        Found Footage overview

                                    Technical Demo: Downloading and converting video

            Screening:        Ephemeral Films Prelinger collection

Tuesday, Nov 2          

Screening:        A Movie (1958) by Bruce Connor

                        Home Stories by Matthias Mueller

Thursday, Nov 4         Visiting Artist

Journal Due   

Tuesday, Nov 9           DUE - ASSIGNMENT #5: Found Footage

         Final Project:        Stories

              Reading:

Thursday, Nov 11       NO CLASS - Veteranıs Day

Tuesday, Nov 16        

          Final Project:       Treatment and Influences Due

Screening:        Mikeıs Nightmare (Mike Smith)           

Monday, Nov. 15        Individual Meetings

Thursday, Nov 18       Technical Workshop: Final Cut Pro Color Manipulation

          Final Project:       Plan of Action Due

Tuesday, Nov 23        

          Final Project:       Screen Footage/Rough Cuts

Screening:        Sonic Outlaws

Thursday, Nov 25       NO CLASS - Thanksgiving

Tuesday, Nov 30        

        Final Projects:       Work-in-Progress Screenings

Wednesday, Dec 1      Individual Meetings

Thursday, Dec 2          Production Time ­ attendance taken, sign up for editing session

                                    Journal Due

Tuesday, Dec 7           Final Project SCREENING

Thursday, Dec 9          Final Project SCREENING