VisCom Notes 03.11.09a *Please come Thursday*

VisCom Notes
03.11.09a

Hello Visual Communicators,

Tuesday only a few of you showed.  I assume you got my message and chose to forward our Visual Communication project from the confines of your individual lives, great.  Let’s keep moving toward the end of our semester.  Remember it’s only a few weeks away.  Bring your picture stories to class Thursday.  I have seen some of them in Picasa slideshows. The rest I will assume are coming.  Remember I must have work to grade you.  No work, no grades.  Good work, good grades.  Great work, great grades.

***Please come on Thursday. Frederic Kendrick will give you a Final Cut Lesson. I want you to lay your picture stories ( Multiple pictures that tell a story) in the Final Cut Timeline and then we will add an audio track. (Do see Brain Storm’s FCP Seminar @ Seminars.Apple.com) Prof Sturgis, Frederic Kendrick and Ms Ransom will endeavor to have Final Cut on the machines, so make a showing (everyone.) If you have audio you would like to lay in the timeline, bring it along. Some of you who normally hang in 254,  may have the opportunity to move forward with the project. Remember the ”Play Ethic”- “You have to play with it to master it.”

Final Projects- Final projects will be in a form of your choosing- Picture stories (coherent story), Video pieces (2-3 minutes max.)  I will even entertain poetic pieces, but I will be the judge, in that case.  These pieces must communicate something, and have strong visual content, though they need not be overly heavy.  Multimedia projects will be worth more than simple pieces.  You can focus your final (in one medium or mode,) but I still want everyone to do everything on the assignment list below and upload it to a professional looking page to which you can attach your resume. It should be something you can be proud of.

I understand Rahel wasn’t there Tuesday, so if you want to work with her talk to her soon.  Once she structures her project, she will be off and running. I want you to come back week-after-next with a plan for the Final Project.  I would advise shooting video over the break.  Read and view the pieces I have outlined (assignments) and follow the advice they give. ( Example- if you come back with a lot of shaky video it probably won’t work.)

These are your assignments

1. Open Google Accounts- Gmail, Picasa (Picasaweb.google.com), Blogger (some are using other Blog sites)
2. Photograph- a person you do not know, get names. They should be living their lives and you should have a caption (who,What, When Why...)
3. Blog page- Start and upload the photograph ( this is how you will deliver your assignments (professional, portfolio.)
4. Familiarize your self with these sites * they are loaded with tutorials and Articles.
5. Photoshop Assignment- Do three things to a photo in Photoshop and upload to your page
6. Phone (mobile) posting- Make two phone posts ^ per week, to VisCom S09  (or email to address^below)
7. A picture Story, keep it simple. We will use it in a “timeline” in Final Cut
8. Read Journalism 2.0, Chapter 8- (digital Photos) and Chapter 9 (shooting Video)
9. Read Journalism 2.0, Chapter 10 , “Basic Video Editing”
10. View the Final cut Tutorials at <http://seminars.apple.com/seminarsonline/richmediafcp/apple/index1.html>
11. Lay your picture story in the timeline of a Final Cut Project, (To be safe bring a storage device 5-10 gigs.)
    

Let’s tie this up nice and tidy!
CH

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Prof. Craig Herndon/ Asst. Professor Multi-Media Studies/ Howard University/ Washington, D.C. 20059/ 410.703.8708 cell/202.806.7856 SOC ofc/ craigherndon@mindspring.com / craigherndon@verizon.net