Media Aesthetics
and Analysis
- News Photo Analysis - due 9/4, 20 points
- Music Video Analysis - due 9/20, 30 points
- Test1, 10/4, 100 points
- Website Project - due 11/1, 50 points
- Final Project - due 12/13, 100 points
- Final Exam, ??, 100 points
1) Zettl, Herbert, Sight, Sound, Motion: Applied Media Aesthetics, (3rd Ed.), available for about $90 from amazon.com
2) Williams, Robin, The Non-Designer's Web Book, (2nd ed.), available for about $25 from amazon.com
Indepth Calendar
- Week 1 - Introduction & Visualization
- 8/28 - Wednesday - Introduction
- 8/30 - Friday - Read Ch1, Ch11, Williams Ch.2 (searching the internet)
- Week 2 - Area & Force
- 9/2 - Monday - no class
- 9/4 - Wednesday - Read Ch6 - news photo analysis due
- 9/6 - Friday - Read Ch7 (Rosh Hashanah this weekend)
- Week 3 - Force
- 9/9 - Monday - Read Ch8
- 9/11 - Wednesday - Review
- 9/13 - Friday -
- Week 4 - Screen Depth & Volume
- 9/16 - Monday - Read Ch9
- 9/18 - Wednesday - Read Ch 10(Yom Kippur)
- 9/20 - Friday - Music Video Analysis due - (Homecoming weekend)
- Week 5 - Light
- 9/23 - Monday - Read Ch2
- 9/25 - Wednesday - Read Ch3
- 9/27 - Friday -
- Week 6 - Color (watch Frankenstein Monster from Hell - end of the monster scenes)
- 9/30 - Monday - Read Ch4
- 10/2 - Wednesday - Read Ch5, review for test
- 10/4 - Friday - Test 1 - (Family Weekend starts today)
- Week 7 - Webstuff (the Williams book)
- 10/7 - Monday - making a webpage, Williams Ch 1, 3
- 10/9 - Wednesday - making a webpage, Williams Ch5
- 10/11 - Friday - making a webpage, Williams Ch 6, 8
- Week 8 - Webstuff (the Williams book)
- 10/14 - Monday - making a webpage, Williams Ch 7
- 10/16 - Wednesday - making a webpage Williams Ch9, 10, 11 (focus on 11)
- 10/18 - Friday - no class - fall break
- Week 9 - Webstuff (the Williams book)
- 10/21 - Monday - Williams Ch14 - (midterm grades get turned in tomorrow)
- 10/23 - Wednesday -
- 10/25 - Friday -
- Week 10 - Time & Motion
- 10/28 - Monday - Read Ch12
- 10/30 - Wednesday - Read Ch13
- 11/1 - Friday - Assignment 3 due (website analysis)
- Week 11 - Time & Motion
- 11/4 - Monday - Read Ch14 (spring registration starts today)
- 11/6 - Wednesday -
- 11/8 - Friday - (last day to withdraw with a W grade)
- Week 12 - Sound
- 11/11 - Monday - Read Ch 17
- 11/13 - Wednesday - Read Ch18
- 11/15 - Friday -
- Week 13 - Continuity Editing
- 11/18 - Monday - Read Ch15
- 11/20 - Wednesday -
- 11/22 - Friday - Scene Description due - (no class next week - Thanksgiving break)
- Week 14 - Complexity Editing
- 12/2 - Monday - Read Ch16
- 12/4 - Wednesday -
- 12/6 - Friday -
- Week 15
- 12/9 - Monday -
- 12/11 - Wednesday - Review for final
- 12/13 - Friday - Do evaluations, Finish Review, last day of classes, Final Project due
