• — Jan. 26 (Mon.)
• – 1st day - Welcome!
• – HOMEWORK READING: "Narrative as a Formal System" by David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson ('Film Art')
• — Jan. 28 (Wed.)
• — paper on favorite film due
• — Feb. 2 (Mon.)
• — HW# 2: Photo-roman project due
• — HOMEWORK READING: "Making the Pitch" - IFC handout (my.newschool.edu >..assignments).
• — Feb. 4 (Wed.)
• – DUE: for NARRATIVE SHORT project: Concept/idea written as a project proposal - include project objective/purpose/goals, abstract, target audience, background research, underlying story / written script, preliminary sketches, references, production plan/schedule (treatment, style, etc.) and present it in class
• – HOMEWORK READING: "The Shot: Cinematography" by David Bordwell & K. Thompson ("Film Art")
• — Feb. 9 (Mon.)
• — HW# 3: In-Camera Editing piece DUE
• – HOMEWORK READING: "Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema" by A. Tarkovsky
• — Feb. 11 (Wed.)
• – DUE: for NARRATIVE SHORT project: Storyboard due for class presentation, shot list, and work-in-progress (test shots, etc.)
• – HOMEWORK READING: "Why Do Cuts Work?" and "Rule of Six" by Walter Murch ("In The Blink of an Eye")
• — Feb. 16 (Mon.)
• – *NO CLASS - "President's Day"*
• — Feb. 18 (Wed.)
• – DUE: for NARRATIVE SHORT project: "Narrative Short" work-in-progress
• –HOMEWORK READING: "Structuring the First Aesthetic Field: Lighting" by H. Zettl
• — Feb. 23 (Mon.)
• – 'Editing' Continued
• – DUE: for NARRATIVE SHORT project: "Narrative Short" work-in-progress
• – HOMEWORK READING: "The Relation of Shot to Shot: EDITING" (Film Art)
• – HOMEWORK READING: "Sound in the Cinema" (Film Art)
• — Feb. 25 (Wed.)
• – 'Editing' continued
• – Work-in-class
• — March 2 (Mon.)
• – NO CLASS DUE TO WEATHER
• — March 4 (Wed.)
• – FINAL CRITIQUE OF "NARRATIVE SHORT" PROJECT
• – Overview of "Sound" project
• – HOMEWORK READING: "Sound in the Cinema" (Film Art)
• – HOMEWORK READING: "Working with Sound" by Michael Dougherty
• – HOMEWORK: Ben Burtt interviews on Wall-e [ link: filmsound.org > blogger ]
• — March 9 (Mon.)
• – Intro to Sound: how is sound used in film?
• – The role of sound in film.
• – IN-CLASS EXERCISE: Bring field recordings to class (Lab assignment)
• – HOMEWORK READING: "Sounds of Illusions: Sounds of Moving Images" by Sven Carlsson [ link: filmsound.org ]
• – DUE: for SOUND project – a brief description of your sound concept and a treatment (written)
• — March 11 (Wed.)
• – MID-TERM REVIEWS
• – FIELD TRIP: "Museum of Moving Image", Queens - www.movingimage.us
• – Directions to MOMI - 35 Avenue at 37 Street, Astoria, NY 11106
• — March 16 – 20 (Mon. – Friday)
• – NO CLASS ALL WEEK [ SPRING BREAK ]
• — March 23 (Mon.)
• – HW# 4: Cinematography homework DUE (project presentation)
• – MID-TERM REVIEWS - individual conversations
• – Intro to Documentaries & Audio Documentaries
• – Different kinds of sound, sound recording, sound editing
• – DUE: for SOUND project– work-in-progress (class critique)
• — March 25 (Wed.)
• – Audio Documentaries (continued...)
• – DUE: for SOUND project– work-in-progress (one-on-one)
• — March 30 (Mon.)
• – Overview of "Experimental" piece project
• – FINAL CRITIQUE OF "SOUND" PROJECT
• — April 1 (Wed.)
• – Intro to Experimental Films
• – Experimental editing
• – DUE: for EXPERIMENTAL project – concept written as a project proposal, treatment, preliminary sketches, references/precedence, production plan/schedule and style frames
• — April 6 (Mon.)
• – Abstract/Experimental film & animation: color, formal qualities, special effects, abstraction
• – DUE: for EXPERIMENTAL project– work-in-progress
• — April 8 (Wed.)
• – Overview of "Type & Motion" project and "Final" project
• – Introduction to Broadcast Design: basics of film graphics, type in motion, and titling
• – DUE: for EXPERIMENTAL project– work-in-progress (one-on-one critique)
• — April 13 (Mon.)
• – FINAL CRITIQUE OF "EXPERIMENTAL" PIECE
• — April 15 (Wed.)
• – DUE: for TYPE & MOTION Project& FINAL PROJECT – concept written as a project proposal, treatment, preliminary sketches, references/precedence, production plan/schedule
• – VIEW: short films
• – Other examples of title sequences
• — April 20 (Mon.)
• – DUE: for TYPE & MOTION project – Animatic (show how it fits into your final project - show openning scene in boards)
• – DUE: for FINAL project – present any script changes, storyboards (or anematic)/ style frames and shot list (based on breakdown from storyboards)

• — April 22 (Wed.)
• – DUE: for FINAL project – work-in-progress (tests)
• — April 27 (Mon.)
• – Time in Space: installation and time based projects
• – Games as narrative, Algorithmic motion, time as an interactive element
• – DUE: for FINAL project –work-in-progress
• — April 29 (Wed.)
• – IN-CLASS CRITIQUE OF "TYPE & MOTION" PROJECT
• — May 4 (Mon.)
• – DUE: for FINAL project – work-in-progress (rough edits)
• — May 6 (Wed.)
• – Review final project final drafts
• – Discuss final presentations
• — May 11 (Mon.)
• – FINAL CRITIQUE OF "TYPE & MOTION" PROJECT AND "FINAL" PROJECT
• — May 13 (Wed.)
• – Post mortem
• — May 18 (Mon.)
• – *FINAL DVD DUE
• – Hand in ALL of your Core Studio: Time-Based Media projects compiled/burned in a DVD
• – Leave in my mailbox – CDT main office (10th floor) 2W 13th St., rm 1007