Review of course objectives, readings, assignments, projects, and grading. Blogging as a medium for research, discourse, and documentation.
Reading: Language of New Media, Digital Cinema and the History of a Moving Image, Lev Manovich
Film: Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Reading: Art of Watching Films, The Director's Style
Film: George Lucas, THX-1138 (1971)
Reading: Escape Velocity, Mark Dery
Film: Steven Lisberger, Tron (1982)
Reading: History of Tron
Film: Ridley Scott, Blade Runner (1982)
Reading: Escape Velocity, Mark Dery
Film: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall (1990)
Reading: Virtual Reality, Howard Rheingold
Presentations of Midterm papers.
Film: Robert Longo, Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
Reading: Virtual Dimension, Virtual Repression: Hollywood's Cyberspace, Claudia Springer
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Film: Lynn Hershman, Conceiving Ada (1997)
Reading: A Cinema of Intelligent Agents, Marsha Kinder
Review final project
Assignment: Develop concept summary, approximately 100 words, due April 4
Film: Peter Weir, Truman Show (1998)
Reading: no assignment
Discuss final project concept summaries
Film: Andy and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix (1999)
Reading: Digital Dialectic, What is Digital Cinema?, Lev Manovich
-- Review of reading and analysis of digital techniques used in film
-- Review of The Matrix
-- Discussion of synopsis assignment
Assignment (due April 25): detail the technical features of your film treatment
Review of films, concepts, techniques and discussion of final projects.
Points for presentation of your film treatments:
1. Describe your film treatment by summarizing the overall concept, the main characters, the location, the key conflict and how the narrative is resolved.
2. Describe the technological / cinematographic elements of your film and how they support the narrative.
3. Mention any films we have viewed in class that have influenced your narrative.
4. I will call on one student in the class to respond with criticism of your piece.
Final project is due no later than Wednesday, May 9, 2:00 PM. Send attached document via email.