Introduction to Digital Production

Schedule of Activities

day workshop/lecture assignment due
week 1
Tuesday
Mar. 29
  • Introductions/Registration
  • Syllabus & project review
  • Campus resources
  • Set up groups
  
Thursday
Mar. 31
  • Intro to OSX (pdf)
  • network resources and multimedia applications
    • Connect to File Share on-campus (pdf)
    • Connect to File Share off-campus (pdf)
  • Accessing your Blog (pdf)
  • Post your project proposal to your production blog
  • Reading: Zen TV
  • Update production blog
 
week 2
Tuesday
Apr. 5
  • Group (present project proposals)
  • The production process and pre-production planning
 
Thursday
Apr. 7
  • Update production blog/Comment on at least one other class blog
  • Finish Script/Storyboard
  
week 3
Tuesday
Apr. 12
  • Audio Mixing Bench Proficiencies
  • Storyboards/scripts are due in class on Thursday 4/14
 
Thursday
Apr. 14
  • Basic composition with Soundtrack
  • Begin work on your soundtrack
  • Update production blog
 
week 4
Tuesday
Apr. 19
  • Group (present soundtrack in progress)
  • Digital Image Capture
  • Photoshop I (pdf)
  • Scanning in the MacClassroom (pdf)
 
Thursday
Apr. 21
  • Photoshop II (pdf)
  • Culture Jamming montage - (put in class folder on Calawah)
  • Update production blog
 
week 5
Tuesday
Apr. 26
  • Group
  • Photoshop for animation and working with small graphics (pdf)
  • adjustment layers and posterization tutorial
  • work on final project
 
Thursday
Apr. 28
  • Work Session
  • Update production blog
 
week 6
Tuesday
May 3
  • Group
  • Video Foundations
  • iMovie part I
  • work on final project
 
Thursday
May 5
  • iMovie part II
week 7
Tuesday
May 10
  • Group
  • Titling Techniques w/ Photoshop & iMovie
  • Intro Typography
  • Mac OSX fonts (pdf)
 
Thursday
May 12
  • Update production blog
 
week 8
Tuesday
May 17
  • Group
  • iDVD (pdf)
  • Finish Final Project Script
  
Thursday
May 19
  • iDVD
  • Update production blog
 
week 9
Tuesday
May 24
  • Group
  • Assisted Work Sessions
  • Finish Projects
  
Thursday
May 26
  • Assisted Work Sessions
  • Output final project to iDVD
  • Project title due by end of class
  • Update production blog
 
week 10
Tuesday
May 31
  • Final Presentations & Critique
   
Thursday
June 2
  • Final Presentations & Critique
  • Self-Evaluations - due next weekat eval mtg.
  • Bring Faculty eval or turn in to program Secretary
 
eval week
   
  • Put final full quality DV file of final project in class folder
 
       
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