"Translation" in Transmediation: Exploring the Metaphor
Ksenia Prassolova
Mon Jan 22, 01-03:00pm
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Single session event
Transferring narratives from one medium to another is often either likened to the process of translation or just plainly called translation, the latter being used as a synonym to "transmediation". During the two-hour class we will concentrate on further exploring this metaphor; by looking at the key translation techniques we will try to understand how to better tell our stories across media. Held in 1-132.
Contact: Ksenia Prassolova, 14N-207, x3-3599, mimoletnoe@gmail.com
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Documentary Filmmaking: A One Day Survival Guide
Generoso Fierro
Thu Jan 11, 06-10:00pm
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 15-Jan-2007
Limited to 10 participants.
Single session event
Documentary filmmaker Generoso Fierro takes you through a one time class where you will learn the basics of shooting a documentary film on mini dv, editing and getting it seen. Learn how to navigate through the murky waters of copyright issues regarding still images and music to creating a release. Learn quick editing techniques, dvd mastering and an easy festival submission process so that your work can be seen. Held in 32-124.
Contact: Generoso Fierro, 14N-207, x3-5038, generoso@mit.edu
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Is This On? (Learn To Be a College DJ)
Generoso Fierro
Wed Jan 31, 06-08:00pm, 50-030
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 10-Jan-2007
Limited to 30 participants.
Single session event
Checking levels, making a segue, cueing vinyl (vinyl-what's that?)
Get to know your campus radio station (WMBR) as DJ Generoso teaches you various skills of doing a radio show. Then, learn some history of WMBR (the first punk rock radio show in the USA), have a tour of the station and obtain membership information.
Freshly baked cookies and milk will be provided because Andy would've wanted it that way.
Contact: Generoso Fierro, 13-2090, x3-5965, generoso@mit.edu
Cosponsor: WMBR Radio
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Make Zombie Madness!
Kristina Drzaic
Tue Jan 23, 10am-06:00pm, 1-246
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 10-Jan-2007
Limited to 15 participants.
Single session event
Grab your friends, practice your growling and prepare yourself for making ZOMBIE MADNESS. Join award-winning independent filmmakers Kristina Drzaic and Neal Grigsby as they lead you through scripting, makeup, learn how to make special f/x gore and shooting your very own zombie movie. This will be a hands-on make-a-film-in-a-day class. Held in 1-246.
Remember,Zombies can be anyone.
Contact: Kristina Drzaic, 14N-207, x3-3599, kld@mit.edu
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PULSE: American Music and Poetry from 1950 to 1970
Tomoyuki Iino
Mon Jan 22, 05-07:00pm, 1-246
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
This is a two-hour single session designed to discuss the parallel relationships between the American music and poetry from the 1950s to 70s.
By the early fifties, as part of the postwar development of consumer society, a strange pulse had set in the music scene to bring about muzak or elevator music. As if to reflect this new trend, poets such as Robert Lowell and John Berryman started to write, almost on the same pulse, quasi-sonnet sequences.
In the late sixties, a more experimental type of pulse music was invented by such composers as Terry Riley and Steve Reich to be later labeled as minimalism. Again, the poetry caught up due to the efforts of John Ashbery and A. R. Ammons who wrote deliberately monotonous and distinctly open-ended sequences.
Some excerpts of poems will be read, some parts of music heard. Held in 1-246.
Contact: Tomoyuki Iino, 14N-207, x3-3599, kmtiino@gmail.com
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Storytelling and Games in the Digital Age
Prof. Henry Jenkins, Sande Scoredos and Thomas Hershey, Sony Pictures Imageworks
Mon Jan 29 thru Thu Feb 1, 10am-05:00pm, 14E-310
Fri Feb 2, 10am-05:00pm, 2-105
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 10-Jan-2007
Limited to 40 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: None
Student teams develop story concepts for various media, including motion picture visual effects and computer games. Sponsored by MIT Comparative Media Studies (CMS) and Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI), this non-technical activity focuses on the theoretical, historical, cultural, social, and aesthetic elements of interactive narrative and game structures. Morning lectures explore linear and non-linear storytelling across media, audio-visual elements, game theory, and techniques to increase the depth of interactive console games and enhance storytelling. Afternoons run as workshops where participants collaborate in teams to design interactive story scenarios to be presented during a final session on Friday afternoon.
Held in 14E-310. Friday February 2nd will be held in 2-105.
Contact: Generoso Fierro, 14N-207, x3-5038, generoso@mit.edu
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The 17th Annual Salute to Dr. Seuss
Henry Jenkins
Mon Jan 29, 07-10:00pm, 4-237
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Gather around, boys and girls of all ages, for a celebration of the sublime and wacky world of Doctor Seuss. You will hear Prof. Henry Jenkins read from his works and talk about Seuss's relationship to Modern Art and popular culture. We will also screen his remarkable live action feature film, 5000 Fingers of Dr. T. An MIT Tradition marches forward.
Held in 4-237.
Contact: Generoso Fierro, 14N-207, x3-5038, generoso@mit.edu
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The Digital Game Value Chain
Philip Tan
Wed Jan 24, 05-07:00pm, 1-246
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
A crash course on how digital games are funded, built, published, distributed and sold, comparing the different business models for mobile games, console games, PC games and online games. It's a 30 billion dollar industry: Where does all that money go? (Disclaimer: not a subtitute for CMS.610/CMS.922-Media Industries and Systems)
Held in 1-246.
Contact: Philip Tan, 14N-207, x3-3599, philip@mit.edu
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The Films of Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Generoso Fierro
Wed Jan 31, Thu Feb 1, Fri Feb 2, 07-10:00pm, 1-134
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
A three-night film retrospective of one of the most exciting and innovative directors in the world: Thai director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang. During these three nights we will examine his young career and view all five of his films, including his newest work: Invisible Waves, which was just nominated for a Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Free popcorn!
Held in 1-134.
Contact: Generoso Fierro, 14N-207, x3-5038, generoso@mit.edu
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