| Week
One |
| |
Topic |
Assignment |
| 3.30 |
|
Introduction to course |
| |
Image & text |
STUDIO: Image + text exercise (Graphic
Converter) |
| 4.1 |
|
Defining terms |
| |
|
STUDIO: Introduction to Flash |
| Week
Two |
| |
Topic |
Assignment |
| 4.6 |
|
Visions and Voices: Documentary
(look particularly at art>interpreting reality>the artist stripped
bare)
Digitaldocumentary.org
Documentary in the Age of Digital Reproduction
360 Degrees
|
| |
|
SCREENING: Nanook
of the North,
Matt Stone, "A Brief History of America" (from Bowling
for Columbine),
Sound and Fury |
| 4.8 |
|
Bill Nichols, "Documentary Modes of Representation," Representing
Reality. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 1991. 32-75. (1) (2) (3) |
| |
|
STUDIO: Flash workshop;
assign New Media Profile |
| Week
Three |
| |
Topic |
Assignment |
| 4.13 |
|
Scott McCloud, Understanding
Comics - Ch. 1, 2, 6 |
| |
|
SCREENING: Stranger
with a Camera
[i]tvs/POV
Appalshop |
| 4.15 |
|
Scott
McCloud, Understanding Comics - Ch. 3, 4, 5 |
| |
|
STUDIO: work on New Media Profile |
| Week
Four |
| |
Topic |
Assignment |
| 4.20 |
|
Vocabulary of design
(Download the powerpoint presentation for review here.) |
| |
|
STUDIO: work on New Media Profile;
complete and turn in by 4.29.2004 |
| 4.22 |
|
STUDIO: work on New Media Profile;
complete and turn in by 4.29.2004 |
| Week
Five |
| |
Topic |
Assignment |
| 4.27 |
|
SCREENING: Couple in the Cage |
| |
|
STUDIO: Documentary project proposal |
| 4.29 |
|
Scott
McCloud, Understanding Comics - Ch. 7, 8, 9
Midterm (due Tuesday, May 4, at 3 p.m.) |
| |
|
STUDIO: Documentary project research |
| Week
Six |
| |
Topic |
Assignment |
| 5.4 |
|
Peer review of New Media profiles |
| |
|
STUDIO: Documentary project |
| 5.6 |
Photo docs |
Documentary Photography
Susan Sontag, "On Photography" (.pdf
file)
Geoffrey Movius, "An
Interview with Susan Sontag"
Mitchell Stephens, "Expanding the Language of Photographs" (.pdf
file)
Michael Rock, "Since When Did USA Today Become the National Design
Ideal?" (.pdf
file)
Documentary topic, provisional thesis, and
list of specific sources turned in |
| |
|
STUDIO: Documentary
project |
| Week
Seven |
| |
Topic |
Assignment |
| 5.11 |
Sound |
transom.org
archives
Hannah
Palin, "The Day My Mother's Head Exploded," transom.org
John
Solomon, "Pulling Back the Curtain," On the Media |
| |
|
STUDIO: Documentary project |
| 5.13 |
Storyboarding |
Documentary proposal due for peer review (two copies
please) |
| |
|
STUDIO: Documentary project |
| Week
Eight |
| |
Topic |
Assignment |
| 5.18 |
Visible
literature |
N. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines - Ch.
1-4
Final documentary proposal due |
| |
|
STUDIO: Documentary project |
| 5.20 |
|
N. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines - Ch.
5-7 |
| |
|
STUDIO: Documentary project |
| Week
Nine |
| |
Topic |
Assignment |
| 5.25 |
|
STUDIO: Documentary project |
| 5.27 |
|
STUDIO: Documentary project |
| Week
Ten |
| |
Topic |
Assignment |
| 6.1 |
|
Presentation and critique of documentaries-in-progress |
| 6.3 |
|
Presentation and critique of documentaries-in-progress |
| Exam
Week |
| 6.8 |
|
Final projects due on disk, CD or USB drive by
5 pm. |
