Meeting |
Date |
Theme / Lecture |
Take-home assignment |
L01
Thur |
L02
Thur |
1 |
Sept 13 |
Introduction & Overview
* what is “inter-media”?
* Micro-narratives: its objects of critique and sources of inspiration |
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2 |
Sept 20 |
Working within the frame:
* Early Cinema: Cinema of Attraction; time & space and discontinuity; how to maximize intra-frame possibilities
Working with a Still frame:
Case studies: Early Cinema |
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3 |
Sept 27 |
Working with a Still frame 2:
Tableau, tableau vivant (TV), tableaux vivants
Semiosis, re-sginification, dialogue with a tradition & subversion: political usage of TV in mainstream cinema, video art and theatre
* Case study:
D.W. Griffith (figurative closure)
Songs from the Second Floor
selections from Raul Ruiz, Jean Luc Godard and Peter Brooks |
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4 |
Oct 4 |
Critical analysis of Tableau Vivant: Barthes, Foucault, Griselda Pollock |
Exercise 1:
(in class/group)
a single still-frame shot/scene
+
a tableau vivant or a series of tableaux vivants |
5 |
Oct 11 |
An overview of Sony DVCAM DSR-150 AP and its digital-specific capabilities to imaging.
Moving images technicality theories.
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Exercise 2 (in-class / group): a still-frame, tableau vivant with manual camera manipulation and play with light +
Exercise 3
(take-home / individual)
spatial drama + simultaneity and parallel actions (Raul Ruiz)
Due: |
6 |
Oct 18 |
Gilles Deleuze: time-image Vs movement-image
Case Study: excerpts from 400 Blows, Story of Qiuju, Flowers of Shanghai and City of God |
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7 |
Oct 25 |
Walter Benjamin's notion of the "optical unconscious"
More on time-image Vs movement-image (Deleuze)
Case Study: excerpts from works of Tarkovsky, Sokorov and Robert Bresson
New Realism in New French Novel (nouveau roman) (Deleuze)
Case Study: excerpts from Peter Greenaway, Raul Ruiz and Juan Solanas |
Exercise 4 (individual)
time-image &/or new realism
Due: |
8 |
Nov 1 |
Presentations of works (Ex 4) |
|
9 |
Nov 8 |
Speech: impurities in chine (Bela Balazs)
Sound/speech/theories of dialogue
Speech-sound-noice
Sound workshop Part 1:
Sound recording: differentiated space, distance and layer |
Exercise 5: ( in-class / group)
Sound manipulation |
10 |
Nov 15 |
Sound workshop Part 2:
Sound recording: multiple micing and mixing
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11 |
Nov 22 |
Workshop:
Audio-visual Post-production on Premiere Pro
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12 |
Nov 29 |
Narrativity
*combinatoric and polyphonic structure in Raul Ruiz
* multiple time and space in Raul Ruiz - Integral Serialism Links - An essay on patterns in musical composition
transformations, mathematical groups, and the nature of musical substance |
Final Project (individual take-home)
Due: |
