Section: Introduction to field equipment. Shooting and in-camera
editing exercises.
Group meeting: Brainstorm for 1st project. Draw
up proposal/treatment and initial storyboard. Assign production crew roles/responsibilities.
Camera Diagrams: camera
w/ recorder, lens, camera
(front), camera (back),
deck (front), deck
(back)
Shot lenghts: Establishing,
Full, Medium
& Closeup
Week Two: Composition & Camerawork (notes)
Read:
- Herbert
Zettl, Video Basics 3, (Wadsworth Publishing, 2001) "Chapters
4 to 7", 59-137
- Tom
Schroppel, The Bare Bones Camera Course (ISBN 0-9603718-1-8), "Basic
Sequence" and "Screen Direction" 44-66
- Stephen
Katz, Film Directing: Shot by Shot (Michael Weise Productions, 1991),
"Chapter 6," 121-143
Optional
reading:
- Katz,
Stephen, Film Directing: Shot by Shot (Michael Weise Productions,
1991), 173-207
- Gerald
Millerson, Video Production Handbook, (Third edition, Focal Press,
2001) “Using your Camera” 39-73
Jan. 14: Composition: framing subjects, constructing cinematic spaces.
How shots contribute to narrative progression and documentary exposition.
Jan. 16: Sequence and continuity. Shooting with editing in mind.
Camera movement.
Section: Complete
and screen in-camera exercise. Present proposal/treatment and storyboards
to TA. Begin shooting for project 1.
Group meeting: Refine treatment/storyboard. Plan for shoot
(props, locations).
Week Three: Lighting, Sound/Image (notes)
Read:
- Web-based
readings:
- David
Bordwell, and Kristen Thompson, Film Art: An Introduction , Fifth Edition,
“Chapter Nine: Sound in Cinema” (McGraw-Hill, 1979) 315-354
- Web-based reading:
Opitional reading:
Jan. 21: Sound and Image
Jan. 23: Lighting
Section:
Complete shooting for project 1. Introduction to editing with i-movie.
Group meeting: Discuss production process—note concerns
for future shoots. Review, log and discuss footage.
Week Four: Montage and Transitions (notes)
Read:
- Bordwell,
David and Kristen Thompson, Film Art: An Introduction , Fifth Edition,
“Chapter Eight: The Relation of Shot to Shot: Editing (McGraw-Hill,
1979) 270-314
- Stephen
Katz, Film Directing: Shot by Shot (Michael Weise,
1991) 144-171
- David
Pogue, Imovie2: The Missing Manual, (Pogue Press/O’Reilly, 2001), 96-166, 197-225
Jan. 28: Editing technologies
and technique.
Jan. 30: Editing
theories and styles. Continuity, montage.
Section: Edit project 1.
Group meeting: Continue editing. Begin write-up of project
1. Brainstorming project 2.
Week Five: Review/Midterm
PROJECT 1 DUE (in section).
Feb. 4: Review/ study questions.
Feb. 6: In-class midterm
Section: Complete edit of project
1.
Group
meeting: Develop proposal and initial storyboard for Project 2.
Week Six: Visualizing Narrative (notes)
Read:
- Stephen
Katz, Film Directing: Shot by Shot (Michael Weise Productions, 1991), 23-81
Feb. 11: Storyboards and Storytelling
Feb. 13: Narrative film: classical Hollywood style, other approaches.
Section: Screen project 1. Present storyboards for project
2.
Group meeting: Plan shoots and refine treatment for Project
2.
Week Seven: Documentary and Non-fiction forms
(notes)
Read:
- Deirdre
Bolye “A Brief History of American documentary Video” in Illuminating
Video, Edited by Doug Hall and Sally Jo Fifer (Aperture, 1990), 51-79.
- Ilisa
Barbash, and Lucien Taylor, Cross-Cultural Filmmaking (University
of California Press, 1997), “Chapter 1: Documentary Styles,”
15-33.
Optional Reading: Bill Nichols “Documentary Modes of
Representation” in Representing Reality, (Indiana
University Press, 1991) 32-75
Feb.
16: Documentary forms: realities and representations.
Feb. 19: Experimental non-fiction
Section: Begin shooting project 2.
Group meeting: Review production process, view and log footage,
plan remaining shoots for project 2.
Week Eight: Hybrid forms, Compositing, and
Special Effects (notes)
Read:
Feb. 25: Digital Imagery: Non-camera-based material, compositing,
effects.
Feb. 27: Multimedia productions. Interactivity and non-linearity.
Section:
Complete shooting for project 2. Begin Editing
Group meeting: Log footage. Plan for editing.
Week Nine: Cinema and New Media Formats (notes)
Read:
