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2005 Fall Class Meetings: Mondays & Wednesdays 3:00-4:50 pm Labs: Selected Fridays at dates and times as determined in class Instructor: Rob Danielson <type@uwm.edu> Office Hours: MITB-18 Wednesdays 9:50pm-?? and Mondays 1-3 pm. Senior Projects 520 Final Project The semester culminates with a high-profile, public screening of the personal works created in this class. With the exception of the Survival Skill demonstrations for which student select & present subject matter, the assignments are designed to support the making of the best project she/he is capable of. Final Projects may be in film, video, installation, performance or a combination of these. If your final project is expected to require facilities beyond video projection in the Union Theater, they need to be described in the project proposal and approved by the instructor. Projects started before the semester began must be fully proposed and approved before production can proceed. Works longer than 10 minutes are discouraged. An evaluation copy of the work for the instructor is also required. Final Grade Creative accomplishments of the final project Participation in the Creative Community Survival Skills Presentation 80%* 10% 10% *Failing to complete your proposal on time, missing an individual session and poor class attendance can detract from your final grade. Texts There is no required textbook. Much of the material you ll be directed to is on line or available on the b56 computer platforms. If there are particular conceptual or technical skills that you wish to develop, describe them in an email and send them to the instructor. A list of possible readings and other resources will be sent to you. Required Software Microsoft Word or a compatible word processor for compiling your project proposal. There are some free one s on line like EasyOffice http://www.download.com/EasyOffice-with-PDF-Filter/3000-2079_410414633.html?tag=lst-0-5 Class Web Directory & DL2 site The primary class files will be located at http://www.uwm.edu/~type/510/ We might use a D2L site too which I believe you can access by course name with your ePanther username and password at https://uwm.courses.wisconsin.edu/ Attendance and Required Exercises Attendance at every class is required except for those designated for individual sessions We will use Friday lab time if we get behind schedule or if we need to follow up projects we cannot conclude in regular class meetings. Facility Access & Work Permits Students using department facilities must have an updated Work Permit, which will be distributed in class. The Film Department facilities are normally open from 9AM 4:30PM, Monday Friday. Some of the studios have card-swipe access. Keys for other editing rooms and studios may be signed out in the Equipment Room or B-70 office. When the Film Office is closed, access to rooms is available from department staff or campus police, following posted guidelines Film Processing Fee The university will directly bill each student for 16mm black and white reversal film processing. The semester charge is $25. Students electing to use color film must arrange for these off-campus services and pay for them personally, in addition to the required processing fee. Color reversal processing is available through a cooperative arrangement with UWMadison, which is managed through the Equipment Room. Students enrolled in a film course not using B&W reversal film MUST complete a Course Fee Waiver Form (available in MIT B70), have the instructor sign the form and submit it to Annie Melchior by the end of the fourth week of class. Required Equipment Most of the Film or Video production gear needed is provided by the Department. One, key exception is disc storage for your media files when working on a department computer. Suggestions about purchasing external FireWire drives are in the Film Department Student Index: http://www.uwm.edu/~type/FilmDept/StudentIndex.htm Make sure you read this before buying a new or second drive. Data Loss The Film Department is not responsible for lost data or the ramifications of lost data. Students will be taught how to back-up work on removable discs and on an allocated partition in B-56 and are expected to make copies of FCP editing docs, back up work at the end of each session. Course Time Requirements In addition to time in class, students should set aside at least 12 hours a week for work on assignments. Department Screenings The 101 lecture/screening takes place each Monday at 11:00 AM -12:50 PM in the Arts Recital Hall (FAM 175). On several occasions, we will discuss the work of visiting artists that Carl has brought to the 101 class. There are many other events like Experimental Tuesdays, the Woodland Pattern Last Friday screenings and festivals of interest and relevance to this class. E-mail / Email help from the Instructor(s) Students receive a free, electronic mail account through campus IM&T. If you have not used email before, stop in at the Computer Lab on the 2nd floor East wing of the Library to learn about how to use your account. Reporting Computer Problems and Getting Help. Feel free to email your instructor for help when you cannot solve a problem after trying these fixes: 1) Save your session. Make back-up copy of your current editing doc on your back-up partition or CD-R. Shutdown the computer. Turn your external hard drive off. Check the FireWire cable connections. Check the power supply connection to your FireWire drive. Turn your hard drive on. Start the computer again checking to make sure it boots on the correct partition, Macintosh HD. 2) Launch the application (FCP, Logic etc) using the icon in the Dock (not by double-clicking on the edit doc). Go through the preferences making sure the settings are correct. Capture scratch disk, (set record path in Logic) audio and video output settings, and other settings unique to your editing session. Close the session but leave the application running. 3) Launch the edit session that was giving you trouble. Attempt the process that was causing problems. If the problem persists, close the session without saving it and quit the application. 4) Launch the application again from the dock. In the new session that opens, import a few media files (captured video and audio material) and attempt the same process that was giving you trouble. If the problem goes away, the source is probably in your editing session doc which requires help to fix. If the process/step does not work in the new session, make note of these factors and include the info in your email to the instructor A) Specify which room and the exact platform you are working on. B) Include the brand of external hard drive you are using (E.G OWC, LaCie, Maxtor etc.) and whether it was formatted with OSX disk utility). C) Describe the precise command you are performing when the problem occurs D) The exact wording, character for character, of any prompt or error message(s) you received. E) If the problem is audio monitoring related, state whether you can see blinking lights in the audio meters when you play your session. Special Needs and Questions If you need special accommodations to meet any of the requirements of this course, please contact me as soon as possible. Feel free to visit me at my office during office hours to discuss assignments or any questions or requests you have. The Department of Film follows UWM academic policies which are posted on the departmental bulletin board, or available online at http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Acad_Aff/policy/uniformsyllabus.html Drops No drops will be granted for this course after Sept 28. Copyrighted Materials Use of copyrighted material is strictly prohibited unless the images, sounds, texts, etc. are being significantly altered and it is clear, in the opinion of the instructor, that the original material is being studied, analyzed and commented upon by the student. If you plan to use any copyrighted material in a project, make sure that you discuss these plans in detail with the professor before beginning any work that depends on their inclusion The instructor reserves the right to determine what uses of copyrighted material qualify for work done for course credit. The instructor may require that permission be received from the copyright owner and that this permission submitted in writing before grading is attempted. Grades for work failing to satisfy these requirements may be significantly lowered. Incompletes This grade will only be considered for course work earning a B or better grade by the close of the semester. If granted, the incomplete work must be finished by the 5th week of the following semester. Course Schedule Wednesday, September 7 Introduction to class Possibility of transferring to Steve Reinke s Junior/Senior course which meets at the same time in B-56. Description of the Proposal Committee Approval Process Determine student numbers Select proposal committee members-- two people outside of your group. (groupings are 1-5, 6-10 and 11-16) Demo: Polishing a FCP edit for DVD release. Assignment: Before the next class, perform the above tasks on one of your completed projects that s is still on your hard drive. Friday, September 9, 2pm Colloquia Curtin Hall 175 Visiting Artist Mary Flanagan Exploring the Bits the of Everyday: Quotidian Digital Artifacts and Systems Monday, September 12 Due: Print out two copies of your them to class. 3:00 3:20 Proposal Committee 3:20 3:40 Proposal Committee 3:40 4:00 Proposal Committee in-progress project proposal and bring meetings for students #1-5 meetings for students #6-10 meetings for students #11-16 Bring: Your external FireWire hard drive with your polished FCP project on it. Assign B-56 partitions for BU. Demo: Media storage and Back-Up principles. Demo: Exporting and encoding assets Wednesday, September 14 Bring: Your external FireWire hard drive with your polished FCP project on it. Demo: DVD authoring in DVD-SP. Email before Class: Project Proposals as a MS word doc to your two Proposal Committee members. Monday, September 19 Due: Two, complete, printed copies of your project proposal for your committee members to read over and ask your questions about. They will take your proposal home and email you comments to paste into the appendix of the proposal before emailing it to Rob D. 3:00 3:20 Proposal Committee meetings for students #1-5 3:20 3:40 Proposal Committee meetings for students #6-10 3:40 4:00 Proposal Committee meetings for students #11-16 Group Discussion about the Proposals Wednesday, Sept 21 Due: Submit your completed proposal with comments as one MS word (or compatible) document attached to an email to Rob D. by the start of class. Due: Bring the DVD you created of one prior work to give to Rob D to view with your proposal. Look for the instructor s response to your project proposal via email over the next few days. Grading will work like this: G Q Good to Go. Start shooting and recording sound for your key scenes, concepts, persons etc immediately. Reply to Questions in dark green on your proposal and provide clarifications as requested. Once after your response has been emailed to Rob D., you may start shooting and recording sound for your key scenes, concepts, persons etc. Your proposal needs more development. Read over the questions written in green and resubmit a revised proposal to the teacher for approval before starting production. Due via email by Monday, Sept 26. I Friday, September 23 , 2pm Colloquia Curtin Hall 175 Victor Burgin The Time of the Panorama" Monday, September 26 Due: Revised proposals via email Discuss Union Final Screening event and options Class Production Assist #1 ______________________________ Wednesday, September 28 Class Production Assist #2 ______________________________ Class Production Assist #3 ______________________________ Monday, October 3 No class Wednesday, October 5 In-progress session with instructor (meet in B56 unless another arrangement is made) 3:05-3:30 ___________________________ (Student #01) 3:30-3:55 ___________________________ (Student #02) 3:55-4:20 ___________________________ (Student #03) 4:20-4:45 ___________________________ (Student #04) Monday, October 10 In-progress session with instructor (meet in B56 unless another arrangement is made) 3:05-3:30 ___________________________ (Student #05) 3:30-3:55 ___________________________ (Student #06) 3:55-4:20 ___________________________ (Student #07) 4:20-4:45 ___________________________ (Student #08) 4:45-5:10 ___________________________ (Student #09) 5:10-5:35 ___________________________ (Student #10) Tuesday, Wednesday, October 11, 12 UWM Union Ann Arbor Film Festival Wednesday, October 12 Visiting Artist Mary Lucier in class. October 17-20, UWM Union Theatre Keith Sanborn in person (specific date TBA) to introduce 4-day Films of Situationists International Series Monday, October 17 In-progress session with instructor (meet in B56 unless another arrangement is made) 3:05-3:30 ___________________________ (Student #11) 3:30-3:55 ___________________________ (Student #12) 3:55-4:20 ___________________________ (Student #13) 4:20-4:45 ___________________________ (Student #14) Wednesday, October 19 In-progress session with instructor (meet in B56 unless another arrangement is made) 3:05-3:30 3:30-3:55 3:55-4:20 4:20-4:45 ___________________________ (Student #15) ___________________________ (Student #16) ___________________________ (Student #17) ___________________________ (Student #18) Monday- Tuesday, October 24-25, MIT B91 Time? Zoe Beloff Monday, October 24 Discuss Zoe Beloff s presentation http://www.zoebeloff.com/pages/resume.html Discuss Student Skill Demos- Show everyone how to do something important that you re good at. Nov 2-16. Incorporate in the Final Screening too? Wednesday, October 26 Class Production Assist #4 ______________________________ Monday, Tuesday October 31, November 1 101, Experimental Tuesdays Daniel Barrow, in performance Monday, October 31 (End of principal photography) Discuss Daniel Barrow s performance or Class Production Assist #5 ______________________________ Wednesday, November 2 Skill Demo 01: How to create a simple website for showing/sharing QuickTime samples your work. By ______________________________________ Skill Demo 02: open source multi-channel video and audio editing etc. applications: what you can use today for free by ______________________________________ http://ardour.org/ http://www.xs4all.nl/~salsaman/lives/ http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3http://heroinewarrior.com/ci nelerra.php3 Skill Demo 03: How to store, locate and retrieve everything you make for the rest of your life by _____________________ Monday, November 7 Skill Demo 04: Some great, non-demanding jobs that pay well and have great hours and how to get them. By ________________ Skill Demo 05 _________________________________________ by ____________________________________________________ Skill Demo 06: How to show full screen video with great sound to lots of people with a laptop and a video projector. By _______________________________ Wednesday, November 9 Skill Demo 07 _________________________________________ by ____________________________________________________ Skill Demo 08 _________________________________________ by ____________________________________________________ Skill Demo 09 _________________________________________ by ____________________________________________________ Monday, November 14 Skill Demo 10 _________________________________________ by ____________________________________________________ Skill Demo 11 _________________________________________ by ____________________________________________________ Skill Demo 12 _________________________________________ by ____________________________________________________ Skill Demo 13 _________________________________________ by ____________________________________________________ Wednesday, November 16 Skill Demo 14 _________________________________________ by ____________________________________________________ Skill Demo 15 _________________________________________ by ____________________________________________________ Skill Demo 16 _________________________________________ by ____________________________________________________ Skill Demo 17 _________________________________________ by ____________________________________________________ Monday, November 21 In-progress session with instructor (meet in B56 unless another arrangement is made) 3:05-3:30 ___________________________ (Student #01) 3:30-3:55 ___________________________ (Student #02) 3:55-4:20 4:20-4:45 4:45-5:10 ___________________________ (Student #03) ___________________________ (Student #04) ___________________________ (Student #05) Wednesday, November 23 In-progress session with instructor (meet in B56 unless another arrangement is made) 3:05-3:30 ___________________________ (Student #06) 3:30-3:55 ___________________________ (Student #07) 3:55-4:20 ___________________________ (Student #08) 4:20-4:45 ___________________________ (Student #09) Monday, November 28 In-progress session with instructor (meet in B56 unless another arrangement is made) 3:05-3:30 ___________________________ (Student #10) 3:30-3:55 ___________________________ (Student #11) 3:55-4:20 ___________________________ (Student #12) 4:20-4:45 ___________________________ (Student #13) 4:45-5:10 ___________________________ (Student #14) Wednesday, November 30 3:05-3:30 Class meeting to discuss Union Screening Plans In-progress session with instructor (meet in B56 unless another arrangement is made) 3:30-3:55 ___________________________ (Student #15) 3:55-4:20 ___________________________ (Student #16) 4:20-4:45 ___________________________ (Student #17) 4:45-5:10 ___________________________ (Student #18) Monday, December 5 Due: Program notes for your final project including title, length, blurb (brief, interesting description) and .jpg image all on a CD-R. Tuesday, December 6, UWM Union Art Gallery Sun Shames Headhunting Moon: A Performance by Jim Trainor Wednesday, December 7 Due: DV tape of your Final Project (none after 5pm!!) Saturday, December 10 4pm Union Cinema Required attendance Monday, December 12 Discuss the works in the screening. Course evaluation forms to be completed and given to the designated student before you leave. Wednesday, December 14 Due: a _data_ DVD-R containing a FCP movie file (picture and sound) of your final project. Put in Rob D s B-70 mailbox. No class meeting. Have a great break.

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