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| BCST 119 Syllabus for Fall 2013 | ||
| Insight System Requirements including Browser Check | Link to the Insight System Requirements guide including a Browser Check that checks YOUR system's browser for the correct software, settings, and plugins. Please go to this link prior to starting this course and verify that you have met the system requirements and that your browser is correctly configured. | |
| Download Student Quick Start Guide | Link to the Insight homepage resource to download a 1 page Student Quick Start Guide (in .pdf or .doc format). | |
| 1 | Week 1 Assignment Sheet | |
| Documentary about the history of computing | If you want to learn more about the history of computers, here's a great BBC documentary called The Machine That Changed the World. If the link doesn't work, you can copy and paste this address into your web browser. http://waxy.org/2008/06/the_machine_that_changed_the_world/ |
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| 2 | Week 2 Assignment Sheet | |
| A Brief History Of Digital Media | Though this was published in the Summer of 2012, it's very important information for you to know regarding the comings and goings, the start-ups, the stay-ons, the successes and the failures of digital media content companies over the past 11 years. |
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| 3 | Week 3 Assignment Sheet | |
| 4 | Week 4 Assignment Sheet | |
| Single Frame Storyboard Template | ||
| 6-Frame Storyboard Template | ||
| How to copy a picture from the internet | ||
| 5 | Week 5 Assignment Sheet | |
| 6 | Week 6 Assignment Sheet | |
| 7 | Week 7 Assignment Sheet | |
| 8 | Week 8 Assignment Sheet | |
| 9 | Week 9 Assignment Sheet | This week 2 things are happening simultaneously! You've got a midterm to take! It's due by the close of day on 10/13. Second, you will do hands-on practice with the using Audacity instructions found in the Course Reader. If you're not using Audacity and have chosen to use Garageband or some other audio editor, then check the Digital Audio Editor Tutorials for this week and find some helpful instructional links to other audio editor software programs. Part of this hands-on practice with your audio software will be to work on Part 2 of your Audio Project: Record, download, assemble sound effects from your list you created last week. You may have a portable digital recorder (or perhaps you can borrow one?) to capture some sounds that you think will fit into your soundscape. I will post a lot of sounds on a website that I will share a link to for you that you can download if you don't have any way to record your own. Remember that you can make a sound and edit into sounding like something else after the fact: for example, Hitchcock liked the idea of recording carrots being broken in half to sound like bones breaking and you can change the pitch of the sound in the editor you use and actually manipulate it in a multitude of ways into whatever you like to make the proper effect in your soundscape. These sounds will then be placed into various tracks in your editor since many sounds happen simultaneously in our world and they need to be happening at the same time in your soundscape so you will have multiple audio tracks happening in the same part of the timeline in the software. In my swimming pool example, you would hear the ball splashes, the swimmer’s splashes, the coaches whistle, etc all happening in the same time but sporadically, of course, with the whistle for example and those are laid out in multiple audio tracks which you will learn about next week. |
| Digital Audio Editor Tutorials | Some helpful tutorials on several digital audio recording/editing applications. | |
| 10 | Week 10 Assignment Sheet | This week you will edit your audio project using Audacity or any other audio editing application that you may have. Check the Digital Audio Editor Tutorials sheet I created for you. These are an excellent way to see first hand how to use: Audacity, Audition, SoundTrack Pro, and Garageband. |
| Digital Audio Editor Tutorials | Tutorials for various popular audio editing software. |
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| 11 | Week 11 Assignment Sheet | This week you will triumphantly finish your soundscape by mixing down all of the tracks in the timeline into 2 tracks - stereo. You will then take that stereo, full-res WAV or AIFF file and compress the data into a format that allows you to easily send it through the Internet. |
| 12 | Week 12 Assignment Sheet | |
| UNDERSTANDING VIDEO I | ||
| 13 | Week 13 Assignment Sheet | |
| Understanding Video 2 | ||
| Final Project_VIDEO | ||
| 14 | Week 14 Assignment Sheet | |
| Storyboard, 2-Column Script & Shot Sheet Examples | Find examples for a Storyboard, 2-Column Script & Shot Sheet here (zipped folder, PDFs). Also download and use the templates for these files. | |
| Storyboard, 2-Column Script & Shot Sheet Templates | Here are MS Word Doc templates for creating a Storyboard, 2-Column Script & Shot Sheet. Let me know if you don't have access/can't use MS Word so I can get you another format. | |
| 15 | Week 15 Assignment Sheet | |
| Shooting Video for the Web | ||
| 16 | Week 16_Final Video Project due on 12/8/13 by 11:55p | |
| Editing Video Lecture | ||
| Digital video editor tutorials | Digital video editor tutorials for FCP, iMovie, and Windows Live Movie Maker | |
| 17 | Week 17 Assignment Sheet | |
| Sharing Video Online Lecture | ||
| Sharing your Final Project Online (HOW TO) | This final assignment sheet will guide you through the steps to distribute your video project online. (It can be made public or private as you'll see in the information sheet here.) Read this thoroughly once you have completed your final editing. | |
| 18 | Week 18 Assignment Sheet | |