August 7, 2008
I finally tracked down the URL for the Photoshop retouch website that we were talking about in class today. It’s the Girlpower Retouch project. Basically, it will let you see all the steps it takes in Photoshop to go from an actual image to the cover image. Click on the “Unveil the Fraud” sticker and it will show you a list of things that have been changed. Click on one of those areas in the list (e.g., eyes) and it will walk you through the 12 steps that were taken in photoshop to change the eyes from the original image to the image in the finished cover. It’s a real eye opener. Have fun!
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August 7, 2008
In class:
- Discuss readings
- Watch Tiff’s Visual Argument
- Open lab
Homework:
- Work on your Visual Argument
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August 5, 2008
In class:
- Review Visual Argument assignment
- Watch example videos
Homework:
- Read Hampe “Chapt. 5: Visual Evidence” and “Recording Visual Evidence”
- Read Lunsford “Everything’s an Argument”
- Bring storyboard of visual argument to workshop
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July 29, 2008
Today in class:
- Watch “A Stranger in Her Own City” and “Soldier’s Pay”
- Discuss Hampe readings
Homework:
- Finish Representing Other’s project (viewing on Thursday)
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July 24, 2008
In class today:
- Jen will return and discuss some of her experiences working with video
- Watch “Stranger in Her Own City”
- Workshop Representing Others storyboards
- Open lab
Homework:
- Read Hampe’s “Recording Human Behavior” and “The Documentary Interview” (see Bibliography for links)
- Post a response to your blog: Write about objectivity and ethical representation, the readings, and the films we watched in class.
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July 22, 2008
Today in class we will do the following:
- Review the Representing Others project assignment
- Watch and discuss Warriors in Pink spot with Kim Delaney
- Watch and discuss the Al Gore Documentary by Spike Jonze
- Open lab time to work on your project
Homework
- Read Chandler’s The Gaze (entire site). Post a 2-3 paragraph summary and response of the reading to your blog. What did you agree with in Chandler’s reading? What did you disagree with or find problematic? How does this reading affect the way you think about the gaze of the camera in this next project? The gaze of your subject? The gaze of your audience?
- Complete a storyboard for your Representing Others project and bring it to class on Thursday.
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July 22, 2008
Writing to Video project due!
Today in class we will be viewing and critiquing everyone’s project.
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July 22, 2008
Open lab–work on Writing to Video project.
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July 10, 2008
Today in class:
- Watch/critique Motif projects
- In class aesthetic writing
- Look at your list of memorable experiences you brought to class and choose one.
- Using as much sensory detail as possible describe the scene/experience.
- Capitalize on all your senses – what did you see, smell, feel, hear, taste? Avoid any language that is not specific to a sensorial experience. For example, rather than write “she looked sad,” you might write something like, “… she kept her head tilted down, she twisted her hands in her lap. I could only barely see that her eyes were wet when she looked up quickly to glance down the street…”
- Watch Chris Marker’s Le Jetee
- Begin to storyboard your Writing to Video project
Homework
- Read Cheney’s “Openings: Dramatic and Summary Methods: Drama in Contemporary Fiction, Dramatic Openings, Summary Openings (excerpt).” (see Bibliography for link)
- Continue working on storyboard/shot list for Writing to Video project
- Begin capturing footage for your project
- Bring footage to class on Tuesday to begin editing
- Don’t forget to post to your blog/journal
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July 8, 2008
Here is a link to some guidelines for group critiquing. I’d like everyone to give it a glance before we have our show/critique of your Motif projects.
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