Review syllabus + course structure, Handout info sheets/sign
Lecture: Documentary films: What are the forms? Observational, Political, Current Affairs, Historical, Authored or Docu Drama. Looking for stories.
Show documentary examples

Assignment
Read handout on Documentary techniques
Order textbooks online
Find favorite short documentary and prepare for critical analysis (write a report)

Presentation of favorite short documentary by students
Introduce Social commentary project
Lecture: Narrative techniques
Work in groups on Social commentary project

Assignment
Research what you may want to comment on in the project, bring three ideas with a bried description and supportive materials to class

Review ideas for Social Commentary
Lecture: Production Process
Tutorial: Final Cut Express

Assignment
Exercise 1

Review Exercise 1
Lecture: Proposal writing
Lecture: Techniques of storyboarding and story construction. Aspects of
Tutorial: Final Cut Express

Assignment
Write a simple proposal for Social commentary(see handout) and create a simple storyboard for at least some of the scenes

Review proposals and storyboards
Lecture: Pre-production; Planning a shoot: Safety and legal issues. Preparing the shoot in detail. Permissions. Rights. Location issues.
Lecture: Production standards
Tutorial: Final Cut Express

Assignment
Refine proposals and storyboard

Lecture: Copyright
Tutorial: Final Cut Express

Assignment
Exercise 2
Write a detailed proposal including finalizing project and shooting plans.

Hand in detailed proposals
Review Exercise 2
Elements of screen craft. Camera positions and angles. Elements of recording sound.
Tutorial: Final Cut Express

Assignment
Start contacting prospective interviewees, secure locations, equipment
or finding online materials

Tutorial: Introduction to cameras.
Lecture: Interview techniques: putting interviewees at ease. Planning an interview.
Tutorial: Final Cut Express

Assignment
Exercise 3
Start contacting prospective interviewees, secure locations, equipment
or finding online materials

Review Exercise 3
Discuss proposals and scripts in groups
FCE tutorial: Capturing video, Sound, Transitions
In class work on the project

Assignment
Continue with project
Start shooting if you have not done so already

Optional lunch with speaker, work on shooting your movie.

Assignment
Finish shooting your footage

FCE Tutorial
Review footage
Digitise footage and Digitise any photographs/ stock footage etc
Start Post production process

Assignment
Clean up and organize your footage

FCE tutorial
Post Production

Assignment
Create a rough cut, including transitions and sound

Review rough cut
Continue with revisions

Assignment
Continue with revisions

Continue with revisions

Assignment
Create a final cut, be ready to show in class

Review Social commentary movies, time to finetune in class
3pm: presentation by library and communication staff about Pluto project
Flash tutorial 01: menu, tools, navigation, keyframes, onion-skinning, symbols,
shape-tweens

Assignment
Prepare for critique, export movie in high quality

Critique of Social Commentary Movie
Introduce Animated Intro Project
Flash tutorial 02: shape tweens, motion tweens, motion guides

Assignment
Revise your movie, post on youtube
Flash Exercise # 1
For animation project: write a summary of the design problem, what direction you will take and the story you will tell. Create 10 sketches.

Review storyboard sketches | discuss ideas for project
Show Exercise # 1
Flash tutorial 02b: catch up

Assignment
Create a storyboard with at least 20 frames.
Flash Exercise # 2

Flash Lecture 03: motion tweens, motion guides
Review Exercise #2
In class Review of storyboard
Start work on animation assignment

Assignment
work on your animation: create 10 different frames of your animation

Flash Lecture 04: importing sound & text, bitmaps, compression
Review progress, work in class on animation

Assignment
Flash Exercise # 3 (due Nov 3)

Work in class on animation
Flash Lecture 04b: Movie Clips

Assignment
5 seconds of Animation project finished

Review Exercise # 3
In class work on project

Assignment
35% of your animation done

Flash Lecture 05: basic action scripting, site mapping, animated buttons, etc..

Assignment

70% of your animation done

Introduce Non-linear Narrative in Flash project
Review content for Non-linear Narrative (includes proposal and mission statement)
Lecture: navigation and web sites
Flash Lecture 6a: Drop down menu and animated transitions

Assignment
90% of animation done
Compile CONTENT for Non-linear Narrative
Write necessary copy for the project

Flash Lecture 06b: More on actionscripting,
Review copy and materials
Start developing sketches

Assignment
Finish your animation and prepare for critique

ANIMATION CRITIQUE
Flash lecture 7: interactivity
Start work on Non-linear Narrative within Flash

Assignment
10 sketches for Non-linear Narrative focusing on design and use of the grid
Implement critique suggestions for animation

ANIMATION DUE
Translate your sketches to Flash
Flash lecture 8: loading external movies, video

Assignment
Bring photos, copy and other materials
Refine sketches

Review home page and navigation
Work on Non-linear Narrative within Flash

Assignment
Make the navigation functional. All links should be functional even though content might not be complete (use placeholders.)

Thanksgiving break :) :) :)

Review progress
Work on Non-linear Narrative within Flash
Incorporate video and add sound

Assignment
Fully create one inner page.
Incorporate Introductory animation

Create preloader
Fine tune Non-linear Narrative

Assignment
Publish Non-linear Narrative and prepare for critique

Non-linear Narrative CRITIQUE

Assignment
Revise Non-linear Narrative based on feedback

Non-linear Narrative Due

Receive project grades and have projects returned