Schedule
(All assignments, due dates, & scheduled material subject to change at Prof. Bianco's discretion)
August 28: |
Introduction: Twitter, Blog, DropBox, Working Groups for Web Project
Static Web Design I: Dreamweaver, HTML, HTML5
Intellectual Property: Digital Millenium Copyright Act, Creative Commons
Storytelling I: Web Layout |
Introduction
Save, save as, backup and keep
Discuss Process Project
Determining Our Licensing: Creative Commons
Set up Twitter, DropBox & Blog accounts. Follow @jamieskyebianco & all classmates.
Discuss ethos statement
Setting up FTP & Prof. Bianco will discuss acquiring a personal domain or access to the Pitt Unix Server.
Begin web design, html |
September 4: |
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Workshop: Building a static website: HTML + CSS. Begin Photoshop.
Discuss Digital Millenium Copyright Act
Web Design : Creating a design concept! Navigation.
"Strange Pictures" project -- planning
Final project -- planning
Homework Due Today:
Read all syllabus content for this course Read all of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act
Complete HTML5/XHTML tutorials at W3Schools & for Dreamweaver
Author your fully functional homepage (HTML & content) for your static website -- uploaded & live (Dreamweaver FTP help) (HTML tags)
Discuss Nox -- spend time "reading" this text. Think about how it is made.
Import CC license and educational "fair use" clause to website
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September 11: |
Static Web Design III: Dreamweaver, CSS, Color + Layout
Processing Images II: Photoshop (layers, masks, links)
Storytelling III: NOX, Strange Pictures, Building a Smart & Elegant Website, Final Project Review |
Workshop: Building a static website (continued)
HTML5, XHTML Validation, Entities, CSS Properties, CSS Validation, Hex Color
Working with images: Photoshop for the web
Crit: how design effects the same content
Final Project Proposal Review
Homework Due Today:
W3Schools Tutorials for CSS and htmldog html & css (beginner & intermediate)
Complete Adobe Photoshop Tutorial
Discuss Nox -- spend time "reading" this text. Think about how it is made.
Revise website: Add CSS, full navigation & implement design concept
Bring To Class: 5 Strange Pictures (I expect you to have taken many more and selected and cultivated the 5 best) -- upload to website.
Add your entry on the DIY How-to Blog
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September 18: |
Static Web Design IV: Sharing our websites, images, and thinking about fonts, adjustments, expansion
Storytelling IV: Strange Pictures, The Flat (Dreaming Methods) & the Widget Art Gallery
Final Project I: the preliminary proposal |
Workshop: Web & Image Critiques
Typetester, CSS Examples (& How-to), Fonts for websites
Crit: Website Review & Project Pics
Groups
Homework Due Today:
Fully designed website due (HTML5, CSS, Layout, Color Scheme, Navigation). Must include navigation and all assignments to date. All image assignments, Strange photo essay, proposal, ALL assignments must be accessible on website.
Complete Tizag CSS Tutorial and W3Schools Advanced Tutorials for CSS
Alphabetic Writing: draft two 1-2pp proposals for your final/end-of-semester project. Give this serious thought as you will be working on these ideas for the rest of the term. Upload to website.
Upload: 5 strange pictures you have taken and cultivated this week (10 total)
Read "The Flat" (We will look at lots of interesting, "strange" works for ideas about the final project. Ask me if you would like to see more sooner).
Look at the Widget Art Gallery (again ... more ideas for the Final Project)
Add your entry on the DIY How-to Blog
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September 25 |
Sound I: Evaluating scripts and design
Final Project II: the revised proposal
Storytelling V: Strange Pictures
: a photoessay |
Workshop:
Crit: Website Review & Project Pics
Continue evaluation of final project proposals
Review Sound Designs
Homework Due Today:
Complete Audition Tutorial
Listen to: "The House on Loon Lake" and This American Life: 20 Acts in 60 Minutes (2003, NPR) [mp3 pay download or free ... if you find it :)]& "Apron Strings of Savannah" from The Moth
5 more pics + compile a photoessay
Revised version of your Project Proposal--topic approved by Prof. Bianco
Compose Soundscape/Sound Essay Design: one double-spaced page narrative based on your project
Add your entry on the DIY How-to Blog
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October 2 |
Sound II: Audition, Soundbooth, Audacity, & Garageband
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Workshop:
Crit for websites and for photoessays
Review updated soundscape/sound essay proposals
Bring earbuds and microphones to class
Begin sound mixing
Homework Due Today:
Upload revised soundscape/ sound essay design
Bring three recorded tracks to class due today
Upload: 5 Pictures You Have Taken This Week for your Final Project Listen to soundscapes: Soundwalk (pay attention to use of text + image + sound), London Sound Survey, the Smalls Street Sounds
Add your entry on the DIY How-to Blog
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October 9 |
No class - Monday classes meet |
Review Audition or Soundbooth tutorial
Work on Rough Cut of Soundscape -and - on Photography & Text for Soundscape
Spend time on YouTube, Vimeo, whereever open access video may be found: find 3 fantastically interesting and well-made non-professional videos (share links on twitter by Tuesday, October 9) |
| October 16 |
Sound III: Audition, Soundbooth, Audacity, & Garageband
Video I: Time for Images & Sound: Premiere: Editing, Interface, Timeline
BRING YOUR CAMERAS (VIDEO) TO CLASS!!!
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Workshop: Listening to the soundworks! Bring your earbuds!
BRING YOUR VIDEO CAMERAS (VIDEO) TO CLASS!!!
Crit: Rough Soundscape Review
Planning Video production
Storyboarding
Homework Due Today
Rough Soundscape due (includes photography & text, uploaded & exported onto your website)
Complete Premiere Tutorial
Two page video script due
Watch all peer tweeted videos (posted by Oct. 9)
Watch The Wilderness Downtown and MoviKantoRevo (on Chrome)
Add your entry on the DIY How-to Blog
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| October 23 |
Video II: Time for Images & Sound: Premiere: Storyboarding & Scratch clips
BRING YOUR CAMERAS (VIDEO) TO CLASS!!! |
Workshop: Listening to the sound pieces! Bring your earbuds!
BRING YOUR CAMERAS (VIDEO) TO CLASS!!!
Crit: Rough Soundscape Review
Storyboarding
Homework Due Today
Final Soundscape due (includes photography & text, uploaded & exported onto your website)
Review Premiere Tutorial
Storyboard due today
Bring in scratch video tracks to begin workshop
Add your entry on the DIY How-to Blog
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October 30: |
Video III: Storyboards & Scratch Footage & First Rough Cut
Bring Video Cameras to class |
Continue crit: sound
Video - from editing to post
-Rough Cut due for Video (rendered, exported, uploaded to your website)
Add your VIDEO entry on the DIY How-to Blog |
November 6: |
Video IV: Rough CUTS: Project Video/Process Video
Bring Video Cameras to class |
ALL Video, All Night - quick editing to post
-Capture & Fake rough cut for Process
-Revised Rough Cut due for Project Video--CRIT
Add your entry on the DIY How-to Blog |
| November 13 |
Workshop: Present sound & video |
-sound & video crit
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| November 20 |
Big Workshop: working toward the final projects |
-Update & revise all assignments
-Prepare to present plan for final project
-Workshopping your projects to date. Meetings with Prof. Bianco as scheduled.
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| November 27 |
Workshop: Present sound & video |
Animation? Flash ... After Effects
-sound & video crit
-process video due
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| December 4 |
SHOWCASE & FINAL PRESENTATIONS |
DO NOT MAKE TRAVEL PLANS PRIOR TO OUR LAST CLASS MEETING. |
| December 11 |
Final!!! |
All assignments due - including thumb drive and online content - 4:30 pm |