Art 250 Writing with Video

Tuesday, April 29 – Extra credit assignment reflecting on documentary
argument due.

Tuesday, May 6 @ 4PM – final reflection and dvd due. Turn dvd into my
mailbox in the English Department, second floor. Mailbox #123.

Friday, May 9 @ 4PM – Laptop due to the Oregon CITES Lab. Turn in all other
equipment to the Art and Design checkout window.

In-class:

1. Finish visual argument critiques.

2. Final class reflection

3. future of blogs and wwv archive

4.  ICES forms

Homework:

1. Finish class reflection

2. Turn in dvd to my mailbox in the English dept. on Tuesday, May 6 by 4PM.

In-class:

1. Critique Visual Argument projects.

Homework:

1. Finish post-critique writing

2. Work on class reflection

In-class:

1. Archiving videos

2. DVDs

3. Final reflection

4. Workshop rough cuts

Homework:

1. Finish video and writing. Post to blog before class.

Conferences will again be at Giuliani’s on Green St.

12:40 Alex P.

1:00 Amanda

1:20 Kenny

1:40 Suraj

2:00 Natalie

2:20 Alex K.

2:40 James

3:00 Robert

3:20 Shiraz

3:40 Mark

4:00 Jeremey

4:20 Tim

4:40 Claire

5:00 Alex W.

5:20 Juan

In-class:

1. Discuss Beyond Beats and Rhymes

2. Video as rhetorical medium: discuss reading

3. Watch examples: Obama, Blackwater USA, political ads

4. Watch North Korea: A Day in the Life

Homework:

Write your proposal and send it to me before your conference.

Choose a full-length documentary of your liking that makes an argument.  (If you need suggestions, come talk to me.)  Write a 2-3 page analysis of that argument, in which you discuss how the film builds its argument, the types of evidence used, how the film tries to appeal to its audience, and how successful you believe the argument to be.

 Due: Last day of class, April 29

In-class:

1. Finish representing others critiques

2. Discuss Everything is an Argument

3. Discuss argument assignment and project proposal

4. Watch examples

Homework:

1. Read “Putting You in the Democratic Process”

2. Watch Beyond Beats and Rhymes

3. Write a blog post critiquing the argument in Beyond Beats and Rhymes. What kind of argument is this according to “Everything is an Argument”? How does this documentary use logos, ethos, and pathos? How effective is the argument in this documentary?

In-class:

Watch An Inconvenient Truth

Homework:

1.  Write a  reflection on the documentary, focusing the argument.  How is the argument constructed?  What does it use as evidence? How does this structure compare to Monroe’s Motivated Sequence?

2. Read Everything is an Argument 

In-class:

1. Critique representing others projects

2. Intro. argument assignment

Homework for Thursday:

1. Finish post-critique reflection

2. Read argument assignment

3. Watch samples on writing with video site

4. Read Monroe’s Motivated Sequence