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
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