VizCamp Dates

Feb. 2: Cody, Sarah
Feb. 16: Kristy, Devin
March 1: Andrea, Stephen
March 29, Lane, Maura
April 5: Gabriella, Lindsay
April 10: Kaitlyn, Allison
April 12: Alan, Christina
April 17: Katie, Kim
April 19: Wes

Outside Learning

Jan. 24, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Resume Critique Day (1 point)

Jan. 24, 5:30 p.m.

Visiting Artist/Scholar Lecture: Liz Cohen

Liz Cohen received her MFA degree in Photography from the California College of the Arts. She holds a BFA in Studio Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and a BA in Philosophy from Tufts University, both in Boston, Massachusetts. Cohen is a photographer and performance artist, whose multi-media work is exhibited both nationally and internationally. She is best known for her recent subversive project, “Bodywork,” in which she transformed an East German 1987 Trabant automobile into a 1973 Chevrolet El Camino. She has won numerous awards and grants including: a Studio Residency from The MacDowell Colony in 2001; a Studio Fellowship in 2002 from the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany; a Creative Capital Foundation Project Grant in 2005; an Artist’s Project Grant from the Arizona Commission for the Arts in 2007; and a 2008 Traveling Scholars’ Award from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. (2 points)

Jan. 25, 12:00 to 5:00 p.m.
UGA Spring Career Fair (2 points)

Jan. 26, 3:30 p.m.

State of the University Address (2 points)

Jan. 26, 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Seminar: Georgia Oceans and Health Initiative and Climate and Society Initiative (2 points)

Jan. 27, 12:15 to 1:15 p.m.
Lunch and Learn at GMOA: American Art and the Great Depression
Paul Manoguerra, chief curator and curator of American art, leads a discussion on ways in which the museum’s resources can be used in classes and research. This session will focus on American art and the Great Depression in special exhibitions and the collection of the Georgia Museum of Art. (2 points)

For the Outside Learning portion of your grade, you’ll need to attain ten points throughout the term. You can select events from those I post (or submit your own 72 hours in advance for approval) and you will need to send in a 200-300 word summation of the event within 24 hours. Your summation should be a synopsis of what your learned along with how you could apply the information to a photo assignment or photojournalism career.

Outside Learning: Resumes, Career Fair Prep, Waterborne Diseases

Jan. 17, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Resume Critique Day (1 point)

Jan. 17, 5:30 p.m.
Global Diseases: Voices from the Vanguard Lecture Series (2 points)

Robert Tauxe, Deputy Director, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will speak about his work in the prevention of waterborne diseases such as cholera. A reception will follow in Demosthenian Hall.

Jan. 18, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Resume Critique Day (1 point)

Jan. 18, 6:00 p.m. Resume Writing Workshop (2 points)

Jan. 19, 6:00 p.m.

Workshop: How to Prepare for a Career Fair (2 points)

For the Outside Learning portion of your grade, you’ll need to attain ten points throughout the term. You can select events from those I post (or submit your own 72 hours in advance for approval) and you will need to send in a 200-300 word summation of the event within 24 hours.

ASSIGNMENT: Video Shoot, Matched Action

You can set this up … choose someone doing a repetitive action (chopping onions, knitting, swinging a golf club) and make six different shots of it. One long, three mediums and two close-ups. Next week in class we’ll start learning how to capture and edit in Final Cut Pro.

Make sure you’re moving around and changing the angle you’re shooting from – the general rule is you want to change your angle by at least 30 degrees, but not break a 180 degree arc. (Basically, choose one side to shoot from and then don’t cross that line.)

Don’t worry about audio on this, think about using the macro switch on the top of the camera and hold that camera steady. Nothing is worse than shaky video.

Okay, maybe sketchy audio … but not by much.

Questions? Fire away.

ASSIGNMENT: Blogs, Reading, Etc.

By Friday afternoon at 5 p.m., you need to set up a blog. I recommend WordPress.com as I find it to be the most flexible option out there, but you can use Blogger or Tumblr if you prefer – just make sure it has a functioning RSS feed.

Once you have it set up, please do an introductory post and send me a link to the site. I’ll compile a list of everyone’s over the weekend and post it here.

You should also start thinking about what issue you want to work on covering this semester – something with some depth. By next Thursday, Jan. 19, you should have a post up with several ideas. I want everyone to take a look at everyone else’s ideas and leave comments. Use these blogs as a conversation, an extension of the class.

You should also start reading Mark Briggs’ Journalism 2.0. Download the PDF and dig in – there’s some stuff in there you already know, but there’s a lot of good info in there, too.

The publisher and editor from the Hartwell Sun will be joining us in class on Thursday, Jan. 19. Not a bad idea to start reading up on Hart County now, I expect you to have questions about the country for them.

So …

Who’s here? Just curious … syllabus is up, too.

Lab Hours – Reminders and Adjustments

Lab Hours through the end of the semester …

Thursday, April 28 – 11-2
Friday, April 29 – 9-4
Tuesday, May 3 – 9-5
Wednesday, May 4 – 9-5
Thursday, May 5 – 9-4 – Note that this is a one-hour earlier closing then originally planned.*
Friday, May 6 – 9-5 – Note that there is a 12 noon deadline for the Documentary Photographer students.
Monday, May 9 – 9-5 – Introduction to Photojournalism portfolios will not be accepted after 5 p.m.

The lab will close at exactly those times – plan ahead, the computers will automatically shut down at those times and you will lose any work you have open.

* If you need that hour, contact me and we will add it to the morning. But if we add it and you don’t show up you will be barred from the lab for every more.

Skedding Out

Well, just four classes left … how about that. So here’s the plan.

Tuesday, April 19 – We’ll finish our talks on flash and let you capture footage.

Thursday, April 21 – Last two VizCamps, then edit time.

Tuesday, April 26 – Graphics and exporting in Final Cut Pro, then edit time.

Thursday, April 28 - Videos due by 2 p.m. on the server.

Friday, May 6 – Semester long project due on the server by 12 noon. This is an audio slide show or video, your choice, that looks at what you’ve been working on for the last three months. (If you’re curious, your “exam” is scheduled for Thursday, May 5, from 3:30 to 6:30.)

And then that will be that.

If you’re finishing up the sequence, you’ll need to turn in your gear by Friday, May 6. If you’re going on to the fall, you can hang on to it through the summer as long as you promise to keep shooting.

Office Hours on Tuesday

As an FYI … I will not have office hours from 12:30 to 1:30 on Tuesday due to a scheduled meeting. I will be in my office between 9 and 11 a.m. if you want to stop by.

ASSIGNMENT: Silent Documentary

To review … you need to tell a story about “faith” in six shots – one long, three medium, two close-ups. No sound. As long as it needs to be, but remember – only six shots.

We will capture footage in class on Tuesday and, perhaps, start the edit, which we will finish on Thursday.

Oh, and I see what you guys do in the backgrounds …