Class Plan:
Your final group critique begins next week! Though we will split the crit over two weeks, everyone's work is due next week. Please be sure to upload your assignment to the server by 9pm (this is a three hour extension) the day before crit, so I can make a playlist that everyone can download. I will have the playlist complete for you to download by midnight. Please come to class with the playlist already downloaded to your device.
You will also be required to upload your final audio work to Soundcloud. It is very user friendly and easy to set up. Contact me if you have issues. This must be completed by Week 6, and will be considered in your grade.
Note: When you export your .MP3 from audacity, be sure to fill out the metadata. You should name it with your name, the title, and "TRM 154" as the album title. This will make it easier to search in iTunes or other media listening software.
TODAY:
1) Engage in in-progress critiques with your small groups. To begin, you must first transfer all of your group's files to your listening device. You will need a listening device and headphones. If you need to borrow headphones, check them out from the cage. Then, proceed to the relevant locations to listen to the works. You should take notes and engage in critical conversation with one another. Ask pointed, critical questions in a respectful way. Always be sure to back up your opinions, thoughts, or suggestions with specific examples from the work. Some questions to guide you are below. We will use these questions to guide us in critique:
2) Report back to the class as groups. Each member of the group will be responsible for presenting someone else's in-progress work to the class. We will listen to a 30 second-1 minute excerpt of the works in class. Your group will decide which excerpt that will be, and then an individual that is not the artist will briefly talk about the work, guided by the above questions.
3) In-class refresher in Adobe Premiere Pro.
For those that feel they need extra help in this software, please register with Lynda.com and watch this video, covering the essential of editing in Adobe Premiere Pro CC. If you do not already have an account, you will need to subscribe. This is a valuable "textbook," which I highly recommend anyone that feels they could use more experience with the software check out.
If you would like more experience in Photoshop, I highly recommend this fundamental tutorial for Photographers, and this compositing tutorial.
These tutorials are extremely thorough and professional. You can watch them at your own pace, or choose segments that are the most relevant to you. They also make excellent references when you are troubleshooting or stuck during editing. Though you will not be directly tested on these for this class, they will make your life better in the short and long run. Highly suggested for all students.
Your final group critique begins next week! Though we will split the crit over two weeks, everyone's work is due next week. Please be sure to upload your assignment to the server by 9pm (this is a three hour extension) the day before crit, so I can make a playlist that everyone can download. I will have the playlist complete for you to download by midnight. Please come to class with the playlist already downloaded to your device.
You will also be required to upload your final audio work to Soundcloud. It is very user friendly and easy to set up. Contact me if you have issues. This must be completed by Week 6, and will be considered in your grade.
Note: When you export your .MP3 from audacity, be sure to fill out the metadata. You should name it with your name, the title, and "TRM 154" as the album title. This will make it easier to search in iTunes or other media listening software.
TODAY:
1) Engage in in-progress critiques with your small groups. To begin, you must first transfer all of your group's files to your listening device. You will need a listening device and headphones. If you need to borrow headphones, check them out from the cage. Then, proceed to the relevant locations to listen to the works. You should take notes and engage in critical conversation with one another. Ask pointed, critical questions in a respectful way. Always be sure to back up your opinions, thoughts, or suggestions with specific examples from the work. Some questions to guide you are below. We will use these questions to guide us in critique:
- Is the artist making good use of the space they are composing for? Why? or why not?
- Does the artist move you through different spaces (physical, temporal, and/or emotional)? What are those spaces? If yes, how do they do it? If not, what did they do?
- Is the artist utilizing a variety of audio techniques (distance, rhythm, tempo, right and left channels, volume, silence, etc.)? Which ones? How?
- What is your listening experience like? Why? Use specific examples.
- Can you confidently say that the artist has composed a "full sonic-experience" for you? What are some strong examples from the work? Weaker moments in the work?
- What do you think the artist's intentions were for this work?
- Are there things that the artist is doing that could be more effective? What are they? What would you suggest? (Note: please root any suggestions in the work at hand. Be generous, honest, and thoughtful; phrase things in a way that you would like to be spoken to: through kindness.)
2) Report back to the class as groups. Each member of the group will be responsible for presenting someone else's in-progress work to the class. We will listen to a 30 second-1 minute excerpt of the works in class. Your group will decide which excerpt that will be, and then an individual that is not the artist will briefly talk about the work, guided by the above questions.
3) In-class refresher in Adobe Premiere Pro.
For those that feel they need extra help in this software, please register with Lynda.com and watch this video, covering the essential of editing in Adobe Premiere Pro CC. If you do not already have an account, you will need to subscribe. This is a valuable "textbook," which I highly recommend anyone that feels they could use more experience with the software check out.
If you would like more experience in Photoshop, I highly recommend this fundamental tutorial for Photographers, and this compositing tutorial.
These tutorials are extremely thorough and professional. You can watch them at your own pace, or choose segments that are the most relevant to you. They also make excellent references when you are troubleshooting or stuck during editing. Though you will not be directly tested on these for this class, they will make your life better in the short and long run. Highly suggested for all students.
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