CMD/IS 404 Media Performance Lab
Media & Performance Studies

Office Hours
TUE 03:30-04:30PM GAILHAC G106
WED 03:00-05:00PM GAILHAC G106
TH  03:30-04:30PM GAILHAC G106
Other times by appointment.

Required Texts: TBD per project topics

Required Supplies:
32GB USB Flash Drive or Hard Drive.
A second USB flash drive recommended!
Suggested flash drive: Kingston Digital DataTraveler SE9 32GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive

Required for video projects:
External Hard Drive, at least 80GB, USB 2
Can be shared by students doing group projects:

Schedule of class topics and assignments

Weeks 1-5

What is performance media

       Examples, discussion, and refelction

Modeling & discussions

       Project proposals - preparing your proposal

       Audience definitions

       Production schedules

       Research methods

Demonstrations

       Media technology

       Case studies of media performance projects

Assignments

      Read and reflect on articles ass assinged during class

     TBD: Experiential design report
Project proposal and definition link to assignment

       Research

       Copy outline, scripts, flowchart & storyboards

       Collection and creation of content including copy, imagery,
and or costumes, sets, location scouting, casting…

       Media technology exercises

Weeks 6-11 (Week 8 no class spring break)

Modeling & discussions

       Project management

       Creative project directing

       Content management

Demonstrations

       Media technology

       Use of venues [e.g. sound, lighting, recording, filming…]

Assignments

       Production schedules

       Project rationales

       Project production
Due 4/21 Experiential Design Report Assignment:

Week 12-16 (Week 14 no class Monday schedule on the Tuesday following Easter Holiday)

Lecture

       Project installation and or uploading and or rehearsals

       Project testing and or debugging and or refining

       Supporting materials i.e. packaging, labels, displays, and or user instructions

Assignments

       Completed project and or performance

       Project critiques by appointment with reviewer/s

Week 17

FINAL

1. Presentation of completed performance media project

2. Final revised version of project purpose, audience and rationale

3. Reflective paper on effectiveness and possible project improvements – answer the following:
Please be very specific.

......1. What did you learn from doing this project?
2. What unexpecteds and obsticles did you you have to overcome?
3. What would do you diifferently now that your project is completed?
4. How does your completed project meet you proposed objectives?
5. The most ineffective aspect of your completed project?
6. The the most effective aspect of your project?
...........

Project inspiration
Communication is Aid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDmKLcY7Nis
Garbage http://azstarnet.com/app/images/flash/garbage/
Netflix Origami http://www.netflixorigami.com/
Homeless Signs http://www.pentagram.com/Signs/signs.php
Hobo King http://faculty.westliberty.edu/2008festival/swf/Tom_Mcguigan/wanderlust/index.htm
Symphany of Science http://symphonyofscience.com/videos.html

interface design
Instinct http://instinct.ru/flash.html
The penguin Show http://www.star28.net/snow.html
The Whale Hunt http://thewhalehunt.org/whalehunt.html
Tool of North America http://www.toolofna.com/blog/ipad/

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