Schedule
(ALL ASsignments, due dates, & scheduled material subject to Change at Prof. Bianco's discretion)
August 31: |
Introduction: Social Media, Blog, Working Groups for 1st Project
Intellectual Property: Digital Millenium Copywrite Act, Creative Commons
Storytelling I: Writing Under Constraint, Distribution Through Social Media,
Twitter, Images |
Determining Our Licensing: Creative Commons
Set up Twitter & Blog Accounts. Follow @profjsbianco, @sarahvinski & all classmates.
Discuss twitter narrative & digital picture "PLACE" projects
Discuss collaboration process project & ethos statement
Creating Social Media Narrative/Writing Constraints
Sarah will discuss some technical aspects of photography & image types
VISIT THE WARHOL THIS WEEK: SEE "TWISTED PAIR" -- show closes September 5!!! |
September 7: |
Static Web Design I: Dreamweaver, HTML, XHTML
Processing Images I: Photoshop
Storytelling II: Post-Secrets, Found & Scrap Writing & Images |
Workshop: Building a static website & looking at Post-Secrets
Discuss trip to Carnegie Museum to see Associated Artists of Pittsburgh next week
Discuss/write about readings
Import CC license to website
Photoshop (Sarah) & Web Design
Homework Due Today:
Be prepared to describe at least 4 works of Warhol & Duchamp from the "Twisted Pair" show. Bring proof of attendance to class.
Read all of the Digital Millenium Copywrite Act
Read "AVery Ordinary Culture" from Michel de Certeau's The Practice of Everyday Life
Acquire domain, set up FTP, Pitt web space or Personal Domain
Complete HTML/XHTML tutorials for W3Schools or htmldog
Complete your practice html page (started in class)
Bring in your paper-based design concept for your website
Complete Adobe Photoshop Tutorial
Bring To Class: 5 "PLACE" Pictures You Have Taken This Week
these should be the 5 best pictures you took... not the only 5 pictures you took... of the place you have chosen to focus on this week
Compose Twitter "PLACE" Narrative: One Entry/Day
Select three rules from which you will take the language you will use. Each source must be used everyday. Post everyday for 7 days. You must remix the language so that it makes sense as one coherent story. Post each day to our twitter stream. Label with hastag #t.
Read Peers' Twitter Narratives
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September 14: |
Static Web Design II: Dreamweaver, CSS
Processing Images I: Photoshop (layers, masks, links)
Storytelling III: Hello World, Building a Smart & Elegant Website |
Workshop: Building a static website (continued)
XHTML tags, html5 vs XHTML, XHTML Validation, Entities, CSS Properties, CSS Validation
Homework Due Today:
Read "the house. from cellar to garret. the significance of the hut" from Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space
Compose Post-Secrets: 3 posted between 9/8--9/14
Bring To Class: 5 Pictures You Have Taken This Week
Complete Adobe Dreamweaver Tutorial
W3Schools Tutorials for CSS or htmldog (beginner & intermediate)
Read Post-Secret Blog & Classmates' Post-Secrets
Add your entry on the DIY How-to Blog
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September 21: |
Storytelling IV: Sharing our websites, images, and thinking about our places |
Workshop: Web & Image Critiques
Photoshop for the web
Groups
Bachelard
Typetester, CSS Examples (& How-to), Fonts for websites
Homework Due Today:
Fully designed website due (XHTML & CSS). Must include navigation and all assignments to date. All image assignments & postsecret assignment must be accessible on website.
Be prepared to describe at least 4 works in Associated Artists of Pittsburgh show at Carnegie Museum. Bring proof of attendance to class.
Be prepared to discuss last week's reading from Bachelard
Complete Tizag CSS Tutorial and W3Schools Advanced Tutorials for CSS
Submit full exterior description ("topoanalysis" from Bachelard) of your "place"--on your website
Bring To Class: 5 Pictures You Have Taken This Week of your PLACE
Add your entry on the DIY How-to Blog
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September 28: |
Sound I: SoundBooth, Audacity, GarageBand
Storytelling V: Tell Me a Story... Podcasts & Narrative |
Workshop:
Recording and Editing Sound--listen to your place
Discuss doing title searches for properties
Time for video!
Homework Due Today:
Complete Soundbooth Tutorial
Listen to: "The House on Loon Lake" from This American Life & "Apron Strings of Savannah" from The Moth
Compose Podcast Script: one double-spaced page narrative "My house..."
Compose one-page description of sound design
Investigate your place as propery: Allegheny County Tax Assessment
Add your entry on the DIY How-to Blog
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October 5: |
Sound II: SoundBooth
Storytelling VI: Tell Me AND Really TELL Me...
Video I: Time for Images & Sound |
Workshop:
Review podcast scratch tracks
Recording and Editing Video--take us to your place
Scripts & Storyboarding
FYI: fantastic Float Tutorial
Homework Due Today:
Read Joyce Carol Oates, "They Just Went Away"--we will write about this in class
Podcast rough draft/scratch track due today (at least 3 layers: vocal; effects & either music or more effects)
Complete Premiere Tutorial
Two page video script due Add your entry on the DIY How-to Blog
Recommended: listen to my prior students' podcasts & watch videos @ the Spring 2010 student website page
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October 12: |
Pitt is on MONDAY Schedule: no class |
continue working on:
storyboards
podcast revisions
rough video cuts
title searches
Watch: At Least 10 Videos at The Digital Storytelling Center, Six Episodes of Terra (downloadable episodes or subscribe to podcast on iTunes), & Season 1 of The Guild
Make an appointment to see Prof. Bianco for midterm review
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October 19: |
Video II: Premiere: Editing, Compositing, Key Frames, Transitions
BRING YOUR CAMERAS (VIDEO) TO CLASS!!!
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Workshop: Commenting & critiquing peer videos & podcasts
Discuss Title Searches
Discuss Digital Storytelling Center & Webisodics
BRING YOUR CAMERAS (VIDEO) TO CLASS!!! -- DIY project creation
Homework Due Today:
Podcast final draft due today: must be uploaded onto your website
Complete video rough cut & upload to website or youtube (tag & document)
Watch: At Least 5 additional Videos at The Digital Storytelling Center & Season 2 of The Guild
View all peer video rough cuts prior to class
Title Searches/Place research Document DUE--hardcopy
Add your entry on the DIY How-to Blog
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October 26: |
Video III: Workshop Videos--time to revise & DIY cuts |
Workshop: Continue commenting & critiquing peer videos
DIY Project: in class cuts--video lab
Homework Due Today:
Revised cuts of videos
Schedule Meeting with Sarah to Discuss your Final Project (you must meet with her before Nov. 9). After you meet with Sarah, you will draft a proposal (due Nov. 9) & schedule a meeting with Prof. Bianco
Add your entry on the DIY How-to Blog
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November 2: |
Video IV: FINAL DIY CUTS
Programming I: Hackety Hack, Programming with Ruby--Guest Lecturer, Steve Klabnik |
Workshop: Programming with Ruby using Hackety Hack -- Guest Lecturer Steve Klabnik
Final DIY CUTS DUE TODAY
Homework Due Today:
Final edit of your DIY video is due
Schedule Meeting with Sarah to Discuss your Final Project (you must meet with her before Nov. 9). After you meet with Sarah, you will draft a proposal (due Nov. 9) & schedule a meeting with Prof. Bianco
Add your entry on the DIY How-to Blog
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November 9: |
Sound IV: Present Final Podcasts-FINAL DUE DATE
Programming II: Hackety Hack, Programming with Ruby--Guest Lecturer, Steve Klabnik |
Workshop: Commenting & critiquing final peer podcasts (required) & revised videos (optional)
Final PODCAST REVISIONS
Homework Due Today:
Initial Project Proposal (first draft, already met with and approved by Sarah) due
Schedule meeting with Prof. Bianco to discuss Final Project (you must meet with me prior to handing in the Final Proposal, which is due Nov. 23)
Final edit of podcasts are due! All media must be uploaded to your website. Earlier drafts of podcast, script, and sound conceptmust also be available for comparison.
Add your entry on the DIY How-to Blog
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November 16: |
Video V: Present Revised Videos
Programming III: Hackety Hack, Programming with Ruby--Guest Lecturer, Steve Klabnik--PROJECTS DUE
Final Project I: Present initial project proposals
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Workshop: Commenting & critiquing revised videos (ALL DUE)
Ruby/Hackety/Shoes Projects Due
Discuss final projects - DRAFT FINAL PROJECT PROPOSAL DUE
Homework Due Today:
Initial Project Proposal (first draft, already met with and approved by Sarah) due
Schedule meeting with Prof. Bianco to discuss Final Project (you must meet with me prior to handing in the Final Proposal, which is due Nov. 23)
Final edit of videos are due! All media must be uploaded to your website. Earlier drafts of video, script, and storyboard must also be available for comparison and evaluation.
Add your entry on the DIY How-to Blog
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November 23: |
Static Web Design III: Present revised websites
Final Project II: Present final project proposals
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Workshop: Commenting & critiquing final peer podcasts & revised videos
Discuss final projects
Final PODCAST REVISIONS & WEBSITE REVISIONS DUE TODAY
Homework Due Today:
Final Project Proposal DUE (you should've already met with and had your proposal approved by Prof. Bianco & Sarah)
Final versions of all assignments prior to FINAL PROJECT are DUE TODAY (graded evaluation begins)
Final edit of podcasts & videos & website are due! All media must be uploaded to your website. Earlier drafts of podcast & video must also be available for comparison.
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November 30: |
Final Project III: Present draft of final project
Flash?? |
Workshop: Commenting & critiquing draft of final projects
Homework Due Today:
Substantial completion of your final project presented to class
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December 7: |
Final Project IV: Present draft of final project- |
Critiquing final project drafts--final day for critique
All students must present substantial uploaded content for final project
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MONDAY, December 13: |
Final Project V: Present final project---->> SHOWCASE!! (512 CL) [Optional] |
Final Project Presentations!
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December 14: |
Final DATE to TURN in USB DRIVE/FINALIZE WEBSITE + WORK: no class meeting |
All work (including project files, drafts, etc) must be uploaded on your fully functioning & navigable website,
and
you must hand in all these files on a USB drive (turn in to my mailbox at 526CL) no later than 4pm.
After that, I leave for NYC ...
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