Nov 1 – Share Abstract Trailers

Post Abstract Trailer videos to Google Drive and discuss in class

Nov 3 – Work session

Fayza will be available to assist during class to work on response videos. Please use each other for feedback and assistance as well!

October 25 – Share Desktop Videos

• Upload and discuss Exercise #6 – Desktop Videos

October 27 – Discuss Plans for Abstract Trailers & Portfolios

• Do weekly video commentaries (try to look at desktop documentaries)
• Plan for Abstract Trailers (due next week) and Portfolios
• Watch examples of abstract trailers:

Jason Mittell’s trailer for “How Black Lives Matter in The Wire“:

Noah Liebmiller, “Why the Eye?” (from 2017 course):

Nicole Morse, “Some People Like Hearing Sad Things” about Transparent

Elizabeth Alsop, “The Television Will Not Be Summarized” about Twin Peaks: The Return

October 18 – Share Deformative Videos

• Export deformative videos & discuss in-class

October 20 – Assignment #6 Workshop – Desktop Video

• Do weekly video commentaries
• Give  feedback on deformative videos
• Explore Kevin B. Lee’s site about desktop cinema, including his list of examples

Watch “Right Now Then Wrong” by Kevin B. Lee

Watch “Watching the Pain of Others” by Chloé Galibert-Laîné  (note: turn on English captions if you don’t speak French…)

October 11 – Share Multiscreen Videos

• Export videos to class folder
• Come to class prepared to discuss role of multiscreen in videographic work
• In-class viewing: Charlie Shackleton, “Frames and Containers“

October 13 – Assignment #5 Workshop: Deformative Double Feature

• Do weekly video commentaries
• Give  feedback on multiscreen videos
• Read Jason Mittell, “Videographic Criticism as Digital Humanities Method” and “Deformin’ in the Rain: How (and Why) to Break a Classic Film” (the second essay is more of a priority) – be sure to watch as many of the embedded/linked examples as you can bear…
• Read Catherine Grant, “Dissolves of Passion: Materially Thinking through Editing in Videographic Compilation“
• Watch Catherine Grant, “Dissolves of Passion”