Winter Quarter Syllabus

Week One

1/10 Thursday  

10-12:00 Group Session Com. 323
1:00-4:00 DVX Proficiency; please review manual before session http://www.evergreen.edu/media/pdf/ML_dvx100a.pdf

1/11 Friday

10:00-12:00 Interest Groups Meet
1:00 User's Group Meeting in MML
Followed by briefing session by ScreenPlayerz re:   Seattle field trip

1/12 Saturday   Field trip to Seattle

Week Two

1/17   Thursday

10:00-12:00 Presentation on Visionary Cinema by ScreenPlayaz
Afternoon: optional check-in with Sally

1/18   Friday

10:00-11:30 Visual Anthropology presentation by Ben
11:30-12:30 Lunch break
12:30-4:00 Documentary Strategies presentation by Sean and Justin  

Week Three

1/24 Thursday

10:00-4:00   Experimental Ethnography presentation by Garde Up Get Down

Final 5.1 mix and edit of Death of Cinema pieces due by 1/21 for mastering

1/25 Friday

10:00-4:00 New Digital Media presentation by The Question Mark

Week Four

Tuesday-Friday   one hour production conferences with Sally TBA

SCREENING OF DEATH OF CINEMA TBA

Week Five-Week Eight

NO FORMAL CLASSES:   PRODUCTION TIME

Week Nine and Week 10

WORK-IN-PROGRESS PRESENTATIONS

WEEK 9
Thursday, March 6
10:00 ALL Check-in Program Meeting REQUIRED
10:30 Meet JULIA ZAY
Screening Death of Cinema DVD project
1:00 SALLY presents some of her work

Friday, March 7
10:00  MAGGIE
11:00  BEN
1:00  JULIAN
2:00  JEFFERY
3:00  KATIE

WEEK 10
Thursday, March 13
10:00  AMANDA
11:00  JENNIFER
1:00  SEAN
2:00  BRYCE
3:00  MELISSA  (INSTALLATION 4:00)

Friday, March 14
10:00  JUSTIN
11:00  GILES
1:00  JESANNA AND MANDY
2:00  COLIN

Link to Fall Syllabusbus

Requirements for Full Credit

1. Full participation in all class activities (this means no absences unless documented by a written excuse from a doctor).

2. Timely attendance at program events (this means no lateness will be tolerated in this program).

3. The completion of a series of assignments, including a pre-production package for a year-long production, a collaborative film or digital video piece, a personal website, an online production journal and exercises in sound design, flash applications, and DVD authoring.

4. Evaluation conference and written self-evaluation.

5. Partial credit (without prior arrangement) or incompletes will not be available in this program.

Program Reading
Required:  

Usai, Paolo Cherchi. (2001). The Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory, and the Digital Dark Age . London: BFI.

Chion, Michel. (1994). Audio-Vision: Sound on Screen . New York:   Columbia University Press.

Both books are available at the TESC bookstore.

In addition each interest group will be assigned one additional text based upon their production and conceptual needs.   Texts might explore experimental animation, documentary production, narrative form etc.   These texts will be assigned after week 3.

Recommended:

Aronson, Ian David. (2006). DV Filmmaking:   From Start to Finish. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly.
(a good review of DV production technique if you need it.)