Instructor: Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda
Office: SUR 2819 | Podium 2
Office Hours: Wednesday and Thursday 2:30- 4:30 or by appointment. Always e-mail to confirm.
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Lecture: Monday 10:30 am- 12:20 pm @ SUR 2600

Teaching Assistants:  2, TBA
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LAB SCHEDULE
D101 @ 12:30:00-14:20:00 SUR 3100  – TA 1
D102 @ 14:30:00-16:20:00 SUR 3100  – TA1
D103 @ 12:30:00-14:20:00 SUR 3130 – TA 2
D104 @ 14:30:00-16:20:00 SUR 3140 – TA 2
D105 @ 16:30:00-18:20:00 SUR 3100 – TA 2

COURSE DESCRIPTION

New Media Images, IAT 202, is an introduction to historical, aesthetic, theoretical and practical issues in digital video production.  In this course, students will simultaneously develop technical ability and creative awareness through the combination of lectures, tutorials, projects and hands-on practice.  Project planning and conceptualization will be emphasized.  Image composition, the basics of soundtrack design, visual effects and editing grammars will be explored toward the aim of creating a final video project.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• Students will develop core skills in moving image composition
• Students will begin to construct nuanced sound-image relationships
• Students will learn how to plan, shoot and edit an audiovisual sequence
• Cinema, broadly inclusive of video and film, will be related to new media contexts
• Students will begin to develop an understanding of montage and continuity editing
• Students will begin to explore the plasticity of the digital media through image and sound manipulation

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Students will have achieved a beginning proficiency in creating audiovisual sequences, including preproduction (treatment and storyboard), production (video shooting and production sound) and post-production (editing, visual effects and motion graphics).

DELIVERY METHOD

Lecture (LEC) and Studio Lab (STL)

LEARNING ACTIVITIES

• Lectures, Lab Tutorials, Readings, Exercises, Assignments and Midterm.
• All assignments/projects may include public showing, written component and critique.
• Team and Individual Projects

TEXT, RESOURCES + MATERIALS

Required:
Weekly reading materials  and videos posted on CANVAS

 Recommended Readings:
– Herbert Zettl, Sight, Sound, Motion: Applied Media Aesthetics, (Wadsworth Publishing, 2010)
– Begleiter, Marci, From word to Image: storyboarding and the filmmaking process (Studio City, CA : Michael Wiese Productions, 2010).
– David Brodwell and Kristine Thompson, Film art : an introduction (Boston: McGraw Hill, 2004).
– Michael Chion, Audio-Vison: Sound on Screen (New York : Columbia University Press, c1994).

 Recommended Videos:
– Chad Perkins, Creating a Short Film
https://www.lynda.com/Word-tutorials/Welcome-series/129019/496404-4.html (Links to an external site.)
You can access Lynda. com video using your SFU Library Account

Materials:
Students should bring to lecture to participate in in-Lecture activities due at the end of the Lecture.

• Paper & pencil for sketching
• A laptop or phone with access to CANVAS

Students should bring to lab:

• Headphones (for editing sound in lab)
• External storage device (suitable for video transfer + backups)

Recommended Resources:

• PC or Mac Computer that is capable of working with multimedia, including video.
• Image and Video Editing Software

Software in Labs (used extensively):

• Audacity (Freeware)
• Adobe Premier
• Adobe After Effects
• Adobe Photos Shop
• Adobe Sound booth

 Prerequisites

Minimum of 18 credits, including IAT 100. Students with credit for IAT 101, TECH 121, TECH 122 or TECH 123 may not take this course for further credit.  Students who have taken TECH 124 before January 2008 may not take this course for further credit.

GRADING AND ASSESSMENT INFORMATION

 Evaluation Breakdown

• Lab Attendance + Activities  (Individual) 5%
• Lecture Attendance + Quizzes  (Individual)  5%
• Midterm Exam  (Individual ) 10%
• Exercises (Individual ) 35%
• Assignments (Team)  45%
• 1 Bonus Point (Following Team Contract)  1%
• Total   101%

NOTE: The final project is a team project. Students are NOT allowed to develop an individual project for their final project.

Schedule

Name	Theme	%	Indiv/ Team	Week Due	Due Date
Assignment 1 (A1)	Reverse Storyboarding	7%	Individual	Week 2	Sunday, January 15 @ 4 pm on CANVAS
Project 1 – Milestone 1(P1-M1)	Storyboard & Logline (P1-M1)	5%	Individual	Week 3	Sunday, January 22 @ 4pm on CANVAS
Project 1- Milestone 2 (P1-M2)	Sequence –no audio (P1-M2)	8%	Individual	Week 4	Sunday, January 29 @ 4pm on CANVAS
Project 1- Milestone 3 (P1-M3)	Final Sequence P1-M3	8%	Individual	Week 5	Monday, February 6 @ 11:59 pm on CANVAS
Midterm	Lecture Slides + Assigned Readings/Videos	10%	Individual	Week 7 or Week 8	In lecture TBA
Project 2 Milestone 1 (P2-M1)	Script & Logline Proposals (P2-M1)	5%	Team	Week 7	Sunday, February 19 @ 4 pm on CANVAS
Team Contracts		1 %	Team	Week 7
Project 2- Milestone 2 (P2-M2)	Storyboard Presentation & Production Docs	7%	Team	Week 8	Sunday, February 26 @ 4pm on CANVAS
Project 2 – Milestone 3 (P2-M3)	Pre-Submission (P2-M3)	10%	Team	Week 11	Monday, March 20 @ 9 am.
Assignment 2 (A2)	Visual Effects	7%	Individual
Project 2 Milestone 4 (P2-M4)	Final Short Film (P2-M4)	25%	Team	Week 13	Saturday, April 1st @ 9:00 pm on CANVAS
Team Evaluations		Mandatory	Team	Week 13	Monday April 3 @ 10:30 Printed

Other Important Dates

Reading Break                        Feb 14- 19                                     No Classes

BC Family Day                        Feb 13                                           No Classes

Final Screening Date              Monday, April 3                             10:30 am

 

* This is a draft of the schedule. Due dates of assignments and exercises might change during the term. Please make sure you check CANVAS regularly to be up to date with in-class activities.

 

COURSE LATE POLICIES

* All Assignments and Exercises will be deducted 5 % per day after their due date.

* Absences:

Requires a doctor’s note (or comparable documentation for non-health reasons)

Prior communication w/instructor via e-mail.

SIAT Academic Policies:
Please review the Department Standards on Class Management and Student Responsibilities policies.

These documents covers SIAT policies on: Academic Dishonesty; Missed exams due to illness; Reviewing exams and assignments; Grade appeals; Grade scale; Course requirements; Prerequisites; E-mail policy; In-class behavior; and Religious accommodations.

 

• SFU grading policy:
  http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/teaching/t20-01.htmlLinks to an external site.
• SIAT student grading and conduct policy: http://www.siat.sfu.ca/staff_portal/faculty_formsLinks to an external site.
• SFU Code of Academic Integrity and Good Conduct: http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.htmlLinks to an external site.\

*** Please read these at the beginning of the course and be sure to follow this policy in regards to grade review requests.

Excerpted from policies:
2.4.2 A Student who is unclear about the requirements for a course, or about the basis on which a grade will be assigned, or who is concerned about the marking of a particular assignment, is expected to seek clarification or to express his/her concern to the Instructor in a timely manner, normally within 10 days of receiving the information.

2.4.3 A Student who is seeking reconsideration of his/her final grade in a course is expected to raise his/her concern with the Instructor without delay, normally within 10 days of the release of the final grade.

2.4.4 The reconsideration of a grade may result in the grade being raised, lowered or remaining unchanged.