CRN	93147	Distribution	F
Course No.	IA / FILM 203
Title	Electronic Media Workshop: Digital Animation Techniques
Professor	Jacqueline Goss
Schedule	Mon 1:30 pm -4:30 pm HDR 106

Cross-listed: Film

In this course, we will make short video projects using digital animation and compositing programs (Macromedia Flash, Adobe After Effects, and Maya). The course is designed to help students develop a facility with these tools and to find personal animating styles that surpass the tools at hand. We will work to reveal techniques and aesthetics associated with digital animation that challenge conventions of storytelling, editing, figure/ground relationship, and portrayal of the human form. To this end, we will refer to diverse examples of animating and collage from film, music, writing, photography, and painting.

Prerequisite: familiarity with a nonlinear video-editing program.

CRN	93142	Distribution	F
Course No.	FILM 303
Title	Film in the Digital Media Age
Professor	Leah Gilliam
Schedule	Th 9:30 am - 12:30 pm HDR 106

Cross-listed: Integrated Arts

What is Digital Cinema? What is a Computer Film? Technology offers so many options for digital acquisition, manipulation and presentation, that it is difficult to keep track of the semiotic and technical distinctions between film/video and the ubiquitous "new media." With an emphasis on hybridity of form and format, students will conceive individual projects utilizing available desktop computer and analog video resources. These projects in conjunction with lectures, demonstrations and screenings will form a matrix for the examination of "cinema" and "emerging technology." Issues for discussion include media essentialism and technological development, the rise of the digital feature, the Dogme Vow of Chastity, "the future of film and video," and

digital delivery.

Additional courses cross-listed in Integrated Arts:

See primary listing for descriptions.

ART 001 Foundations: Cybergraphics

ART 100 Cybergraphics I

ART 300 Cybergraphics III

PHIL 393 Philosophy and the Arts