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Today we get started on our third project, a group video project I call the “Just One Thing” project. This project asks you to work in groups of 3 to produce a short video (about one minute) that advocates for … Continue reading →

Since I am not expecting too many people to have their videos ready for today, I wanted to have a productive activity ready to go. It has been awhile since we played with Photoshop, and since our 3rd, 4th, and … Continue reading →

Our minor taks today involves reviewing Stockman’s advice for novice videographers. Think in shots Don’t shoot until you see the whites of their eyes (stay close to your subjects, use only short establishing or wide shots) Keep your shots under … Continue reading →

Kenneth Burke, George Carlin, and Language as Symbolic Action Today is our second day working through Kenneth Burke’s rhetorical theory. I want to open by listening to George Carlin, since we didn’t get to it last class: Today we work … Continue reading →

In today’s class, I want to do a bit of housekeeping. First, I want to lay out the calendar for the rest of the year. Second, I want to review Project 1, paying attention to some pretty cool projects. Third, … Continue reading →

In today’s class, I want to: Introduce some basic principles and language for talking about video Have you practice shooting video Have you practice editing video using an editing program Basic Intro to Videography First, a 9 minute video dealing … Continue reading →

In today’s class I want to work out a bit more what we might mean by “affective object.” Our first example came from Henry Jenkins, and his relationship to comic books in the essay “Death-Defying Superheroes.” Today we turn to … Continue reading →

Today we transition into the second major part of our course, focusing on the work of Kenneth Burke. We’ve jumped some 1800 years from ancient Greece, and I would like to offer the following brief and obviously inadequate history to … Continue reading →

In our first project, we worked with Gregory Ulmer’s concept of electracy and Walter Ong’s notion of literacy. I shared a reading from Ulmer’s Heuretics in which he argued that a major consequence of literacy was a shift to issues … Continue reading →