CLASS SCHEDULE:
Week 1
Course Intro: Nature of visual communication
Textbook Intro, chapter 1
Class overview
Week 2
How We See: Film Language
Textbook 2, 3
Week 3
Scripting : dramatic language and filmic expression of it
Home Page assignment
Textbook 4, The Triangle Principle
Week 4
Visual storytelling: the visual story.
Textbook 5
Storyboarding in class and the hiaku shots assigned
Week 5
Set and shots: scene
Textbook 6.
Home Test Due.
Present Home pages to class.
Week 6
Scenes (Dostoevsky)
Textbook, 7
Exerc. in class
Week 7
Shots
Review for home assignemts
Week 8
Editing
Textbook, 8
Camera exercise.
Week 9
Editing and Montage
Camera exercise cont.
Sengments viewing in class
Textbook, 9
Week 10
Editing fundamentals and cutting
Editing exercise: movement and motions; Textbook, 10, 11, 12
Week 11
Switchers and audio
Switcher and audio exercises
Week 12
The studio
Studio exercises
Week 13
Start Final Project
Week 14
Work on Final Project
Week 15
Work on Final Class Project
Week 16
Screening
Anatoly Antohin