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| Date | Topics | Readings | |
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| June 26 |
It's All Fake: Creativity in the Media
Class Screening: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner | Clark, Chaps 1 and 5 | June 27 |
Sounds and Images in the Creative Process: The art of mass production Class Screening: The Making of Master and Commander Class Screening: "Shadow Play," Twilight Zone |
Clark, Chap 4
Benjamin, The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction |
| June 29 | The Senses: Sound
Class Exercise: Boxes The Senses: Sight Some of the original photos of Saddam's Statue The Statue (a series of photographs) Class Screening: excerpt from Narc followed by Narc-The Visual Trip | Powerpoint Presentation: The Soundscape
Paul Martin Lester,
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| July 3 | Digital Design
Meet in Neff B27
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Clark, pp. 167-172
Hall, Encoding/Decoding NVU Webpage: Free Web Authoring Software based on Netscape Composer | |
| July 4 | Independence Day | ||
| July 6 |
Semiotics: Encoding/decoding
Case Study: Cell Phone in Your Face |
Barthes, The rhetoric of the image | |
| July 10-11 | Narratives and Dramatic Structure 7/10 Class Screening: "The One With The Candy Hearts," Friends 7/11 Class Screening: "Nothing In The Dark," The Twilight Zone |
Aristotle, Poetics
Clark, pp. 30-43 |
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| July 13 | CITIZEN KANE Study Question: How many techniques can you spot in the opening sequence of the film? | July 17 | Sound and Audio: It's All in the Mix Class Screening: Tom Dowd and the Language of Music Semiotic Analysis of an Advertisement Due |
Tankel, Remixing as recoding |
| July 18-20 | Film and Video (July 18) Class Screening : Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography (July 20) Class will meet in Neff B27 (Computer Lab) |
Clark, pp.15-29 | |
| July 24-5 | Sight, Sound, and Story: The Creation of the Illusion (July 25) Class Screening: The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing |
Clark, pp. 59-91 | |
| July 27 | Genres and Styles |
Introduction to Genre Theory (D. Chandler) Film Genres (website) Genre Character Costume (20 points extra credit) | |
| July 31 | Final Examination and Class Screening: Frank's Place
Dramatic Analysis Due |
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| August 1-3 |
My Media World Website (August 1) PSA Presentations August 3 |
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