Very generally, my goals in this
class align with what everyone else wants to learn about, based on what we
discussed yesterday: technical aspects of filming, including editing, sound, lenses,
design language, etc. Becoming
proficient (to the degree possible during a 6-week term) in Adobe Premiere will
be the means by which I accomplish some of these technical goals. The Doc Mode activities we did last term in
TMA 668 were very helpful in shaping my approach to filming and editing; with
that said, my videos were pretty obviously made by an amateur. My biggest struggle with filming last
semester was in not knowing how to carry out some of the ideas I had. Part of that might have been due to
grandiose, un-film-able ideas that just didn’t work in the time frame we had,
but I think a lot of it was due to my lack of technical expertise.
To what end do I want to
acquire/use these skills? Personally, I
find a lot of value in using these tools to document my own life and that of my
family. With regard to teaching, this
class is just what I need to develop certain curriculum for my English and film
classes. Creating filming assignments
with students in mind (and then performing those assignments myself) will
essentially take care of my lesson planning for my Film Studies class, which
I’ll be teaching for the first time this fall.
The class is going to revolve around film language and its relation to literature
(since it counts as an English elective).
My plan is for students to do three projects—draft a storyboard, write a
screenplay, and create a film—and at the end of the semester they’ll choose
whichever of those three best fits their learning styles/preferences and delve
deeper into it for a final project. I
want my students to be able to see the relationship between those three aspects
of making a film (along with others), but first, I need to better see how all
of these pieces fit together. If I can
finish this term with these projects planned—after finding out what works and
what doesn’t work—I’ll consider my goals met.
I really like the idea of aligning the goals of the class with the things that you need to do for the Fall semester. In fact, I think that we are going to work on developing some rough outlines for our pre-production projects as well as our production projects.
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