TRM 153/ SPRING 2013/TUESDAY: The Single Shot

REPRESENTATION: WEEK 1

The Single Shot

Homework due NEXT WEEK (October 8):

Shoot a 1-3 minute, single shot video. Your video must include at least one character and an inciting incident. You must be prepared to talk about what/who this character is, and how the inciting incident relates. These can be as simple or as complicated as you'd like, but it must be thoughtful and well planned.

Your video can be a static shot, or you may experiment with handheld/steady cam style videography. Please only use diagetic sound (only audio that is shot in the camera). You may use whatever camera you would like: cell phone, webcam, cannon camcorder from the cage, etc.

This assignment is more daunting than it sounds, as you are responsible for developing a character, a narrative, and planning out an entirely in-camera sequence. You must think ahead, plan it out, and take multiple takes. Please come to class with your preparatory notes, sketched, and at least 3 takes. The purpose of this assignment is to challenge you to both experiment and simplify.

For next week: Bring your files (all of them!) any memory cards you used to shoot, and your laptops with Adobe Premier. We will process these files, together, in Adobe Premiere during class. Please be sure to bring your laptops with Adobe Premiere, and all of your files, next week in class.

Next week we will also talk more specifically about the Cannon you will be required to use for your next assignment, as well as other video basics.

SCREENINGS:

Edison Kinetescope FIlms (1894-189^)

Barber Shop, Feeding the Pigeons, Seminary Girls

Lumiere Brothers, Exiting A Factory, 1895

Lumiere Brothers, L'Arroseur Arrosé, 1895

Alice Guy Blache, Cabbage Fairy, 1896 (0:51)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYbQO6pwuNs

Georges Melies, The Vanishing Lady, 1896 (1:11)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7-x93QagJU

Georges Melies, After the Ball, 1897 (1:06)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYYdTAuGm34