Please turn in:
1. Paper copy into my mailbox in 102
2. Electronic copy to bSpace
Both due 5pm Monday the 7th.
Exception: paper copies can be turned in later IF the electronic copy is delivered on time. This is so that people don’t have to, say, drive over from SF just to drop off a paper.
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In SF March 22-25.
Many of the events are relevant to this course!
“Intimacy and Voyeurism: The Public/Private Divide in Photography” will showcase exciting and timely presentations about photography’s ongoing tensions between public and private domains, and will explore how the lines between those domains are often blurred. Join over 1,000 artists, educators and photographic professionals for programming and dialogue that will fuel your creativity. Explore our exhibits fair featuring over 70 exhibitors showing the latest equipment, processes, publications and schools with photo-related programs. Participate in one-on-one student portfolio critiques, professional portfolio reviews, informal portfolio sharing and take advantage of student volunteer opportunities for reduced admission. Other conference highlights include a print raffle, silent auction, film screenings, exhibitions, tours, receptions, a dance party and more!
San Francisco, CA
March 22-25, 2012 @ Hyatt Regency
Keynote Speakers: Sally Mann
Featured Speakers: Sharon Olds, Trevor Paglen, Sandra S. Phillips, Hasan Elahi
Honored Educators: Reed Estabrook
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Syllabus still in process.
Some key elements of the course:
Still photos, audio, video.
Content: what do you record, make, construct?
Technical elements: how do you do this?
Someone described editing as “shooting puppies” — you love what you’ve made but you can’t use it all. You have to pick (1) what’s good quality and (2) what’s essential to your story. Again, we have to deal with both content and technical means.
Telling your story — whether it’s functional (how do people do x) or creative — you have to know what your story is and how to tell it effectively with a variety of media. Storytelling is linear. Although with new media we can break out of this constraint, for our audience and for the story we want to tell, we usually do end up with a linear product, a story we tell in time.
Broadly defined: presentations, online, print; however you present your project, tell your story.
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Visual media are central to much of what we do in the I School, as well as other professions and research domains. Easy and low-cost video and still cameras, cameraphones, and audio recording devices make it easy to record such things as activity and interviews. Reports and presentations, face-to-face and distant, online and off, rely heavily on the visual. In design work, media are used both to inform design and to present design concepts and use scenarios.
However, our knowledge about how to effectively make, use, summarize, and present these media trails far behind our ability to create hours and gigabytes of content.
In this seminar, we will address both theoretical and practical issues of capturing video, audio, and still images and creating narratives and presentations. We will read from such areas as visual anthropology and visual studies; and we will get hands-on experience creating and editing our own media. This is not a technical course; nor is it a media production how-to. But we will cover some of the basics of making and editing media. Both theory and hands-on practice are needed to really delve into this domain.
No prior experience is necessary, but students who are already grappling with visual (and audio) media will find this course especially useful.
This course is appropriate for master’s and Ph.D. students from the I School and other disciplines. It would be an excellent companion to I214, User Experience Research, or to I272, Qualitative Research Methods for Information Systems and Management, or equivalents, although there are no prerequisites.
For second year I School master’s students, we’ll pay special attention to visual media for final projects and presentations.
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“As convenors of the i-Docs symposium, we want to embrace a very large definition of the field. For us any project that starts with an intention to document the ‘real’ and that does so by using digital interactive technology can be considered an i-doc.”
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