Readings

Recommended Texts

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

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

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

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

SES # TOPICS READINGS
1 Introduction to the Course  
2 Technical 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

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

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

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

Technical Concepts, Resolution, Formats, Degradation, etc.

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

Buy at Amazon 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).

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

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

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

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