SM2202 Micro Narratives / Sep-Nov 2010
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Class Schedule

    Group 01 Group 02 Project
M01/W02 9-Sep

Introduction: Why Micro-narratives?

Micro-narratives as experimental art
Micro-narratives as Intermedia

TWO 2-minute pieces:

M02/W03 16-Sep  Intermedia 1: work critique   Class critique: (1) video-photo
M03/W04 23-Sep  Intermedia21: work critique   Class critique: (2) videography based on sound notation
M04/W05 30-Sep Narrativity     
M05/W06 7-Oct  
M06/W07 14-Oct Sound practice (1) Anatomy of a shot/scene (1) sound work: come to class with 1 recorder andat lease 1 microphone (please refer to the equipment list for the course) 
M07/W08 21-Oct Anatomy of a shot/scene (1) Sound practice (1)
M08/W09 28-Oct Sound practice (2): Acoulogy  
M09/W10 4-Nov Time Image: spatialization of timetime, temporalization of space  
M10/W11 11-Nov Sound practice (3) Anatomy of a shot/scene (2) sound+image

single-shot videography

 
M11/W12 18-Nov Anatomy of a shot/scene (2) Sound practice (3)
M12/W13 25-Nov Critique: Series 3 (instructor out of town) "Sound Image" / "Time Image"  
M13/W15 9-Dec Conclusion / CritiqueGrand critique  

Components:

 

INTERMEDIA SHORT VIDEO EXERCISES (Class Critique + In-class Sight-and-Sound Workshops)
Keyworks: Photography & moving image / Poem into video / Painting into video / Photo into video / Sound into video / Short story into video / Episodic structure / Time-scaling…
[more on focus and intended learning outcomes of this session: click here]

 

NARRATIVITY
Keyworks: from micro- to macro-narratives / deconstructing Central Conflict Theory / what is a story? / combinatorials and serialism…

 

MOVING IMAGE AS EPISTEMOLOGY AND NEW CONSCIOUSNESS (Lectures)
Keyworks: the optical unconscious – thick description – event logic – inner temporality – time-image Vs movement image – sound image – arithmatical inspirations on narrative structuration – image as a form of knowledge – soundscape – speech as a performance

 

ANATOMY OF A SHOT (Lectures)
Keyworks: tableau, tableaux vivant, spatial approaches to narrative – surfaces – processes –

 

SOUND PRACTICES
Keyworks: sound recording, acoulogy (listening theory), sound as a form of knowledge, soundscape, reduced listening, space in sound, sound image...