Class Syllabus & Questionnaire
Download Here, v3 updated 10/21/19
Videos for review:
Demo files
Week 2 Assignment 2, due via Drive 9/16:
Pick a monochromatic image from the MoMA collection. Write a short paragraph describing the work of art and why it resonated with you:
https://www.moma.org/collection/
Do your best to replicate that still life using similar objects, different objects or cut paper.
Process image in black and white and export at 3000px wide as a 100% quality JPG.
Submit via drive.
Bring all of your files to class!
Week 3, September 16:
1. Discussion: Review of tonal concerns, limits, techniques and creative uses in black and white digital photography.
2. Demonstration: Continuation of Photoshop workflow demonstration, introduction to color workflow, focusing on complex channel masking, presets and precise localized image adjustments.
3. Studio: Demonstration of masking and color preset options on existing projects.
Assignment:
1. Upload 5 variations images from the class workshop on Google Drive. Create a google doc that describes the five looks you made and how they were inspired or what they reference.
2. Find a famous portrait that you would like to replicate. Cast, photograph and tone the image to emulate an image from a specific era. Create a preset. Create a google doc that decribes: who took the original portrait, which photographic process was used and how did you use capture one to emulate that look.
3. Print 2 8x10’s of your portrait: one without modification, one with your Capture One work.
Week 4, September 23:
Due to the printers not working, we will be skipping ahead to the video component of our curriculum.
Class discussion, presentation from Remy Weber on ‘the interview’ as well as a studio demonstration of basic techniques for recording an interview. Some references shown/discussed in class:
http://esto.com/weberzeigowens
https://errolmorris.com/
Over the next two weeks, pick a subject (person, dead/alive, but just not someone from the class) and start to build materials from which you will craft a video portrait.
Record: Audio, a sit-down interview, documentary footage, audio interview, still photos and text that will all be the raw material which you employ to build your person mini-profile/doc. You have two full weeks to gather this material so it is expected for it to reflect about twelve hours of work. Please use a DSLR and rent/use one of the external microphones when you gather material. All of this material is due when class resumes on Monday, October 7th. Please bring the materials to class.
Week 5, October 7th:
Take a screenshot of the footage you’ve captured and upload it to the drive link…this is how you will be graded for the past two weeks of materials gathering.
In-class demos on the basic operations of Premiere. Work with the footage you have gathered over the past two weeks and start logging your footage, looking for the usable parts and begin to assemble it.
For October 14th, work on editing your person profile and upload the material to your FIT/Google/YouTube channel.
Here is a step-by-step for exporting your footage for YouTube in Premiere:
Here is how to upload a video to YouTube:
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/57407?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
Week 6, October 14th:
Head over to the studio for the Fuji demonstration.
Review everyone’s in-progress videos.
Demonstration of additional Premiere techniques: transitions, titles and color correction.
For week 7, finish and upload your video portrait/profile and write proposal for final project.
Week 7, October 21:
1. Discussion: Environmental video framing space and time.
2. Demonstration: Editing video in Premiere continued. Adjusting audio mixing/color/contrast/density and combining clips.
3. Studio: Students refine environmental video projects to be completed by the following week.
Assignment
1. Students complete environmental video project, with titles, color and sound mixing and post their work to the class YouTube/Google Drive.
2. Purchase inkjet paper, bring with files of MoMA portrait assignment, print of MoMA still-life, and third print from anything else.
Week 8, October 28:
1. Discussion: Review of skin representation and portrait photography concerns, limits, techniques and creative uses in digital photography. Demo for large-format printing techniques.
2. Demonstration: Skin retouching techniques overview. Output preparations for image files, enlarging, sharpening and adding grain for large scale output.
3. Studio: Students break into groups and prepare files for large prints. Start prints.
4. Review of printing techniques.
Assignment:
1. Upload your final files from the class shoot on Google Drive
2. Make 3 new, well printed, 13x19 or larger prints from your favorite pictures made from previous weeks.
Unit 3 (4 weeks): Video and Narrative
In this unit students will learn to apply a narrative structure to video capture. Through lecture, demonstration, analysis and practice, students will explore the process of compiling captured clips together to create, or recreate a story. This unit culminates in the creation of a short video document or editorial story.
Unit project: Creation of a short video document or editorial story.
Week 9, November 4:
Make 3 final prints in class.
Discuss final project. Go over script writing and storyboarding.
Assignment: Write the first scene of your short. About one minute of action. Set the scene with a descriptive paragraph, have dialog or voiceover planned and describe each shot.
Turn in here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kno8FMAjHxx3ODqjE2t5IE46G3CUnTsc
Week 10, November 11:
In class, now at your leisure, Watch: either The Red Balloon or La Jettée.
Write a one-paragraph review of the film, concentrating on how they were uniquely constructed as narratives using simple, low-budget devices.
Assignment: make a storyboard of your first scene. Digitize the drawings from the storyboard and be ready to place it into a sequence on November 18th.
Turn in here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1d-5l8171myv58Y16DEERsdbkMm1wGFyp?usp=sharing
Week 11, November 18:
1. Workshop: animating your storyboard, planning your shoot.
2. Demo: Premiere Pro further techniques/animating your storyboard
3. Narrative editing examples
Assignment
1. Shoot your first scene. Bring rough edit to 11/25 class. Bring prints for a print crit!
Week 12, November 25:
1. Discussion: Critique of video projects, first scenes rough cut.
2. In-class demo: multiple take scene.
3. Assignments: Begin process for second and third scenes, develop a poster concept, shoot during your shoot?
Unit 4 (3 weeks): Multimedia Campaign for Narrative film.
In this unit students will learn to work with still and video content combined to tell a story. Through discussions and practice, students will explore ways to communicate more effectively and powerfully using rich media than through traditional still images.
Week 13, December 2:
1. Upload second scene of piece to the Google Drive/YouTube.
2. Discussion: Introduction to rich media and multimedia stories (combinations of still and moving content) in documentary, advertising, fashion, and art.
3. Class time: work on refining first and second scenes into project.
Assignment
1. Complete filming of third scene.
Week 14, December 9:
1. Upload first draft of poster and third scene of piece to the Google Drive/YouTube.
2. Class time: review projects one-on-one, editing resolution.
3. Assignment: Complete Multimedia Campaign Project: print poster & upload final video.
Week 15, December 16:
1. Final Presentation of narrative poster and projects.