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| June 27 |
It's All Fake: Creativity in the Media
"Shadowplay" Twilight Zone "Waiting For The Electrician" Firesign Theatre | Clark, Chaps 1 and 5 | |
| June 28 | Computer Presentations and Games
Case Study: How to build a Web Site In-class Presentation Meet in NF B41 (Basement Computer Lab) Study Questions: |
Clark, pp. 167-172
Dr. Dixon's Web Page Instuctions | June 30 |
Sounds and Images in the Creative Process: The art of mass production Class Screening: The Making of Master and Commander Class Screening: The making of Homicide |
Clark, Chap 4
Benjamin, The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction |
| July 4 | Independence Day | ||
| July 5 | The Senses: Sound
Class Exercise: Boxes The Senses: Sight The Statue (a series of photographs) Class Screening: Narc-The Visual Trip | R. Murray Schafer, Electronic Revolution
Powerpoint Presentation: The Soundscape Paul Martin Lester,
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| July 7 |
Semiotics: Encoding/decoding
TV ad (to be announced) Case Study: What does Friends mean to you? "The One With the Candy Hearts" Friends |
Hall, Encoding/Decoding Barthes, The rhetoric of the image |
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| July 11-12 | Narratives and Dramatic Structure Case Study: The Sitcom Class Screening: Fast Times (1986) |
Aristotle, Poetics
Clark, pp. 30-43 |
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| July 14 | CITIZEN KANE Study Question: How does the opening sequence"set up" the rest of the film? | July 18 | Sound and Audio Examples of mixes Case Study: It's in the Mix: From the radio to the dance floor Semiotic Analysis of an Advertisement Due |
Tankel, Remixing as recoding |
| July 19-21 | Film and Video
(July 19) Case Study: Visual design and editing in Homicide Homicide (pilot episode) (July 21) Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography |
Clark, pp.15-29 | |
| July 25-26 | Sight, Sound, and Story: The Creation of the Illusion Case Study: Four versions of the Gunfight at OK Corral |
Clark, pp. 59-91 | |
| July 28 | Genres and Styles | To be announced | |
| August 1 | PSA Presentations Opening Sequence Analysis Due |
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| August 2-4 |
Final Examination and Class Screening: Frank's Place (August 2) My Media World Website August 4 (In class presentations) |
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