Project 1: Portrait: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
Hello everyone! Wonderful to meet you.
Please note that syllabus and calendar (located in syllabus folder) will be updated once speakers and exhibition dates have been scheduled. You will be updated when these changes have been made.
I have updated Project 1 (found in Black Board Course Documents folder) to reflect your questions today. Video 1 Project 1
Below find a summary of what’s due next week including links to the blog and the youtube playlist with 50 Great Works of Video Art. (It’s now less than 50….). The Kate Horsefield text can be found in the Course Document folder on Blackboard. You will also find the link to the blog. Make sure that you have received an invitation to join the class blog.
Before Week 4, please see William Kentridge at Marian Goodman Gallery. William Kentridge at Marian Goodman Gallery until February 20. http://mariangoodman.com/exhibitions
I look forward to seeing you next week and remember to bring all sustenance needed to make it energetically through until 9:50.
Coming UP:
Week 2: February 10
HWDue – Watch: 50 Great works of video art online
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS0lgBa37-ngw2YYgT0q0eZVcCJoVm0AK
HWDue – Read: Kate Horsefield. A brief history of video art (found in Course Doc folder in class Blackboard)
HWDue – Blog 01: Write a 300 word response comparing the artists’ intentions in your choice of two videos. https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/s2015video1/ Please email me if you did not get an invitation to the blog.
HWDue – Make: 16:9 Composition. Make a 16:9 view finder by cutting a 8” x 4.5” hole in a piece of paper. Look through it to compose a shot. Draw 6 sketches (1 per day between classes) of a scene that pertains to Project 1.
HWDue – Tutorial 01: Lynda.com, Intro to Premiere CC 2015
HWDue – Materials: Get materials (SD cards, thunderbolt drive, Lynda account)
Lab: Introduction to Cameras, In-Camera Editing, Adobe Premiere
Library will deliver 15 cameras (Panasonic HDC-TM900). PLEASE bring your own camera if you will be using your own camera.
Discussion: Review of 16:9 Project 1 16:9 composition sketches. (See Project 1 with new clarifications!)
Discussion: A brief history of video art.
WEEK 3:
HWDue – Reading Internal & Extermal. Read Krauss: “Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism.” Read Mcluhan “Media Hot & Cold.” The reading can be found on blackboard.
HWDue – Blog 02: Pick three video strategies that Krauss discusses. How could you use them in your own work? Maybe even include them in your footage. Contrast Krauss with McLuhan. What examples can you come up with for hot and cold media?
HWDue – Tutorial 02: Lynda. By Feb 17, you should have watched the following sections of Lynda’s tutorials for Premiere Pro CC 2015: (a) Introduction, (b) Section 1: Getting to Know the Premiere Pro Editing Environment, and (c) Section 2: Setting up and organizing your Media.
http://www.lynda.com/Premiere-Pro-tutorials/Premiere-Pro-CC-Essential-Training-2015/371692-2.html
HWDue – Make: Shoot footage for your Project 1: Portrait and come in with footage on your SD Card. I recommend shooting more than you may use as you may likely not use all of the footage. We will work editing footage in-camera (really just deleting clips and minor trims) and on importing footage in class. Note that you will not have access to editing software for this portrait/studio video. You will need to plan the sequence in advance and you will have only a limited ability to cut off the beginning or end of your video scenes/clips. So, you will need to shoot the clips in the order you are planning for the whole video. You will have one more week to reshoot or to add on further scenes.
Lab: Importing and Editing
Discussion: Horsefield, Krauss & McLuhan readings