Class 1 – September 7
Intro to Class, Course & Instructor
Student Past Experiences and Goals
Intro to the Camera Arts
Persistence of Vision
Review Syllabus
Setup Vimeo, Tumblr & FreeSound Accounts
* Lecture Notes
Watching:
Lumière Brothers – Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory, 1895
Lumière Brothers – Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat, 1896
Georges Méliès – A Trip to the Moon, 1902
The Smashing Pumpkins – Tonight Tonight, 1996
Lev Kuleshov – The Kuleshov Effect, 1929
Alfred Hitchcok – “Pure Cinematics”
Maya Deren – Meshes of the Afternoon, 1943
Jean-Luc Godard – Breathless, 1960
Chris Marker – La La Jetée, 1962
Chris Marker – Sans Solei, 1983
Ridley Scott – Blade Runner, 1982
Gasper Noé – Enter the Void, 2009
Project 1 – Photo Storyboard. 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. Due week 4.
In class:
Setup a Tumblr blog for this class with your name as the title or subtitle
Setup a Vimeo account
Setup a Freesound account
Set up a Dropbox account
Send me the URL for your blog to sofia.paraskeva@qc.cuny.edu
and the email address you used for the Dropbox account.
Post three ideas on your blog about Project 1. Describe your ideas in one sentence.
Homework:
Assignment 1
Watch your favorite movie, tv show, music video or social media channel. Take notes of the position of the camera: describe the different light, colors, characters, anything you see in the individual frames. Pick a sequence that strikes you. Post at least 6 images from the sequence (in the original order) to your blog. Describe why you chose this particular movie and sequence of images. In your post include your #name and #assignment 1. Be prepared to discuss your observations in class.
Project 1 idea
Write at least a paragraph about your project 1. If you have more than one idea write all of them and post on your blog with your #name and #project 1 idea.