In Class – September 8:
Assignment 1 – Blogged Sequences Due and Discussion
Visual Narrative, the Storyboard and Sequencing
Eisenstein & the Five Methods of Montage
Intro to Digital Imaging & Photoshop
* Lecture Notes
Screenings:
Notre Musique – Jean Luc Godard, 2004
The Haunted Castle – Georges Méliès, 1896
Birth of a Nation – D.W. Griffith, 1915
Battleship Potemkin – Sergei Eisentein, 1925
La Jetée – Chris Marker, 1963
At Land – Maya Deren, 1944
The Serpentine Dance – Lois Fuller – Lumière Brothers, 1899
Muybridge’s Zoopraxiscope – Eadweard Muybridge, 1880
Eadweard Muybridge’s cinematic legacy – Eadweard Muybridge
Assignment:
Read: John Berger, Ways of Seeing – Chapter 1 + Understanding a Photograph
Do: Project 1 – Sequence Stories. Imagine you are making an in-camera edited film. With a camera of your choosing shoot a story in 10-18 still frames. Describe the action in each shot. Upload photo storyboard to the class blog with your #name and #storyboard.
Share: Assignment 2 – Series images or a short clip from a sequence you watched this week that you think is particularly well edited. Or a sequence you think was terribly edited. Include in your post your #name and #assignment 2.
***If you have your own camera, find the manual (if you lost it, find it online) and bring both the camera and its manual to class.
From Lynda.com watch Premiere Pro CC 2017 Essential Training: The Basics. Watch up to and including 4. Basic Editing