In Class:
Assignment 1 – Blogged Sequences Due and Discussion
Visual Narrative, the Storyboard and Sequencing
Eisenstein & the Five Methods of Montage
Intro to Digital Imaging & Photoshop
**Lecture Notes
Screenings:
Notre Musique – Jean Luc Godard, 2004
The Haunted Castle – Georges Méliès, 1896
Birth of a Nation – D.W. Griffith, 1915
Battleship Potemkin – Sergei Eisentein, 1925
La Jetée – Chris Marker, 1963
At Land – Maya Deren, 1944
The Serpentine Dance – Lois Fuller – Lumière Brothers, 1899
Muybridge’s Zoopraxiscope – Eadweard Muybridge, 1880
Eadweard Muybridge’s cinematic legacy – Eadweard Muybridge
Assignment:
Read: John Berger, Ways of Seeing – Chapter 1 + Understanding a Photograph
Do: Project 1 – Sequence Stories. Imagine you are making an in-camera edited film. With a camera of your choosing shoot a story in 10-18 still frames. Describe the action in each shot. Upload photo storyboard to the class blog with your #name and #storyboard.
Share: Assignment 2 – Series images or a short clip from a sequence you watched this week that you think is particularly well edited. Or a sequence you think was terribly edited. Include in your post your #name and #assignment2.
***If you have your own camera, find the manual (if you lost it, find it online) and bring both the camera and its manual to class.