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mar 24 spring break

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mar 17 agenda
shown-n-tell ::
discussion of work-in-progress (rough cuts?)

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mar 10 agenda
screening ::
tbd

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feb 28 agenda
screening ::
 aesthetic writing projects: travis+jon
journeys (~40 min)

discussion::
project proposals

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feb 21 agenda
show-n-tell ::
mark barnes – garageband

screening ::
aesthetic writing projects
concoctions (~10 min)
richard powers – galatea 2.2 excerpt (~3 min)
journeys (~40 min)

discussion ::
project proposals/ideas
guidelines for writing a treatment

plans for next week ::
 screenings
updates on projects

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feb 06 agenda
show-n-tell ::
mark barnes – adjective piece (+garageBand?)
video examples from your discipline

screening ::
motif pieces
the secret apocalyptic love diaries

next exercise + some tools ::
aesthetic writing exercise (due in two weeks :: feb 21)
reading: performative ethnography
journaling process pdf
storyboard template

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jan 31 agenda
talk about ::
sound
motif

demo ::
shotgun mic
audacity

show-n-tell ::
student vids+blogs – adjectives

screening ::
2007: a year to love (heavy)
journeys

next week::
motif vids
students bring examples of video from their discipline
discuss ‘aesthetic writing’

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jan 24 agenda
talk about ::
.student blogs
.15 things i saw

show-n-tell ::
.literacy sketches
.literacy examples by former students

screening ::
the man with a movie camera

next week ::
.adjective vid sketches+writing (blogging):
post videos to youTube; create blog entry(s) that include both video and reflective writings

adjective sketches – some guidelines

video ::
~20 seconds each

process
ad ·jec·tive (noun)
1. a word that expresses an attribute of something.

Select (at least) three adjectives. For each word, create a short clip that communicates, interprets, or otherwise represents the meaning of the adjective.Try to think of your words first (not think of images and then pick adjectives that would describe them).

Each clip should be short — not more than 20 seconds — and should be one uninterupted shot in the camera; no editing.

writing ::
post some reflective writing along with your adjective sketches. some of the questions that you might engage:
. what was your process for selecting your adjective? why are these words interesting to you in themselves? why are they interesting problems in translation to video?
. what do your video sketches tell you about how you see and/or organize the world? pay attention to things like shot angles, distance from subject, camera movement, lighting, cuts and edits (if any), etc. what do you find in these sketches that is interesting, exciting, surprising, mundane?…