WINTER QUARTER

WEEK ONE

Jan. 8, Thursday, Com. 323.10-12:  Check in; Production updates.  Where are we now?

Jan. 8, Thursday, Com. 326. 1:30-4:  Special Guest LINAS PHILLIPS who will join us for a discussion and Q and A after we screen his film, Walking to Werner.

http://www.linasfilms.com /

Jan. 9, Friday, MML. 10-11:30: Compression Workshop (moving media and stills for the web) with Stephanie Zorn; bring SD media file for compression.

11:30 Media Request Forms due and Advanced User Group meeting in MML

Jan. 9, Friday, MAC Lounge. 1:30-4:00: Introduction to Wordpress; set up our production blogs; introduction to CSS with Amy Greene.

WEEK TWO

Jan. 15, Thursday, 10-4   Com. 323/326   Production Groups formed; Group meetings; Covenants; Project Proposal Formats and Budgets.

Jan. 16, Friday, 10-12 MAC Lounge: Workshop: embedding moving media h264 quicktime, still image gallery that can be annotated and indexed, RSS to pull content from other sites, aggregation of production blogs.

Jan. 16, Friday, 1:30 - 4 MAC Lounge: Assisted work session:   Web presence and blogs up and running by 3:00.   Critique 3-4 with Amy.

WEEK THREE

Jan. 22, Thursday (Com. 305/326)
10:00-11:30 Animated Archetypes
1:00-4:00 Team Funk Yeah!

Jan. 23, Friday (Com. 305/326)
10:00-11:30 Coolympia
1:00-3:30 Animography

Production Groups meet with Sally ; Proposal drafts reviewed.   Production work commences.   Additional Workshops may be scheduled.

WEEK FOUR

Jan. 29 and Jan. 30:   Project Proposal Presentations (30 min. max)

WEEK FIVE

Feb. 4, 5 and 6: Mid-program Evaluation Conferences with Sally
Production Groups Meet.

WEEK SIX
Feb. 12, Thursday (Com. 305/326)
10:00-11:30 Animated Archetypes
1:00-4:00 Team Funk Yeah!

Feb. 13, Friday (Com. 305/326)
10:00-11:30 Coolympia
1:00-3:30 Animography

WEEK SEVEN
Feb. 19, Thursday (Com. 305/326)
10:00-11:30 Animated Archetypes
1:00-4:00 Team Funk Yeah!

Feb. 20, Friday (Com. 305/326)
10:00-11:30 Coolympia
1:00-3:30 Animography

In production

WEEK EIGHT

In production
Production Groups meet.

WEEK NINE

In production; 30 minute WIP conferences with Sally
Production Groups meet.

WEEK TEN

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday:   WIP Production Presentations*

Note time change.   Schedule will be set by week seven.

Additional requirements for Winter (see below for additional requirements):

1. Completion of a project proposal with treatment, production plan, budget, research, and schedule.
2. Active participation in a Production Group with a weekly meeting requirement.
3. Design and implementation of a Production Blog and web site (using Wordpress).
4. Weekly updates from Production Groups on blogwebs.
5. Two production blog posts each week that document your production progress
6. A contribution to at least one other student's production as crew member or other role
7. Self evaluation (written) of your work for first half of the program; Mid-program evaluation conference in Week 5
8. Work-in-Progress Presentation in Week 10 (one hour max).

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Requirements for Full Credit (ongoing)

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 the following: exercises in sound design, directing, and experimental media (fall), a pre-production package for a year-long production, a collaborative film or digital video piece (fall), a personal website (winter), online production documentation (winter and spring), and an individual or collaborattive production of your design(winter and spring).

4. Periodic Conferences with faculty; a final evalution conference, and written self-evaluation. With the exception of spring quarter our schedule will be tailored to program needs for in-house conferences, reflection, assessment and evaluation.

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

Program Reading
Required:  

Barry, Lynda. (2008) What It Is. Drawn and Quarterly.

Maeda, John. (2006) The Laws of Simplicity. Cambridge, Mass: The Mit Press.

Recommended reading

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.)

Rabiger, Michael. (2008). Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics. London et. al: Focal Press.
(required if you aspire to live action fiction this year.)