Week 1 - September 2-6
Readings:
50 Fast Digital Photo Techniques: "Introduction"
Creators on Creating: “Introduction”
In class: Introduction to TNMA 300/500, Syllabus: Discussion of Creativity and
defining creativity with text readings, Internet readings, Web activities, and
incorporating how creativity is addressed on the Internet. |
PowerPoint Assignment: PowerPoint assignments begin next week. |
Assignment for Everyone: |
Read the Chapters for Week 1 and Week 2 by class next week. |
Photo URLs
Creativity URLs
What is Creativity: http://www.creativityatwork.com/whatis.htm
What is Creativity: http://www.csun.edu/~vcpsy00h/creativity/define.htm
(California State University, Northridge)
Creativity Basics: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~caveman/Creative/Basics/
Creativity Definitions: http://accessarts.net/creative/definitions.htm
Creativity homepage:
http://humanityquest.com/topic/Index.asp?theme1=creativity
Creativity project: http://humanityquest.com/topic/art_activities/index.asp?theme1=creativity
First writing about creativity: http://humanityquest.com/topic/FAQ/index.asp?theme1=creativity
Women and creativity: http://www.suite101.com/articles.cfm/women_creativity
Creative writing: http://sma-edu.saintmeinrad.edu/freugene/writing.htm
Arts and Culture: http://www.artandculture.com/ACSniffer/index.html
Why study creativity? http://www.tecsoc.org/creativity/whatscreativity.htm
Technology and society: http://www.tecsoc.org/creativity/creativity.htm
Creativity Web:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~caveman/Creative/index.html
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~caveman/Creative/
Internet ArtResources:
http://artresources.com/
K-12 Internet resources: http://www.rice.edu/armadillo/Rice/Resources/arts.html
Books to borrow: http://library.tamu.edu/21stcentury/cbooks.html
Various sites:
http://www.zdnet.com/searchiq/subjects/arts/
http://www.acs.org.au/ifip96/dales.html
http://www.salon.com/index.html
http://www.rkwest.com/bookshop/creativity.shtml
Movies: http://www.archive.org/movies/movies.php
Week 2 - September 9-13
Readings:
50 Fast Digital Photo Techniques: Chapter 1 - "Creating a Master
Image"
Photographic Composition: Chapter 1 – “Expressing Ideas”
Powerpoint presentation: Choose a group of two people to work on the
project for next week.
Group Discussion: Form into groups of 2-3 people, and discuss your meaning
of creativity as you see it.
In Class:
Group Discussion of Citizen Kane
1. Would the film be as
effective in color? Give several specific examples to support your
answer.
2. How did Bernard Herrmann's
music enhance the drama? Give several examples.
3. What was Kane's fatal flaw?
4. What was the significance of
Rosebud?
Break into groups for discussion on the following questions. Each group will lead the discussion on one of the questions. Prepare an initial opening statement, and prepare several questions to stimulate the discussion.
Group Discussion of Creativity
1. Is a high IQ essential to creativity? 2. Are there some motives, as well as personality traits, found more often in people known for their creativity? 3. Is creativity inherited? 4. Are creative people more unstable mentally? 5. Are there gender differences in creativity? 6. Is creativity related to age? 7. Why does creative potential sometimes seem to go to waste, or to go unused for many years? 8. Is an unhappy environment more likely to produce a creative individual than a happy one? Guest: Tom Charlesworth |
PowerPoint Assignment: Be prepared to lead the discussion on creativity
using the URLs from Week 1. Prepare an initial opening statement, and then prepare several
questions to stimulate the discussion.
Find several URLs that you found interesting on the Internet. |
Assignment for Everyone: |
Read the Chapters for Week 3 by class next week. |
Week 3 - September 16-20
Readings:
Creators on Creating: Poets: Houseman
[50-53], Rilke [53-55], Yeats [80-81]
Scientists: Feynman [63-68], Mullis [68-73]
50 Fast Digital Photo Techniques:
Chapter
2 – “Quick and Easy Techniques”
In Class: |
PowerPoint Assignment for Week 4: |
Assignment for Week 4 for Everyone: |
Read the Chapters for Week 4 by class next week. |
Week 4 - September 23-27
Readings:
Creators on Creating:
Fiction Authors: Miller
[27-31], Woolf 117-120], LeGuin [222-229]
50 Fast Digital Photo Techniques:
Chapter 3 – “Image Coloring Techniques”
Photographic Composition: Chapter 2 – “Graphic Controls”
In Class: Creativity Exercises with Humor |
PowerPoint Assignment: |
Assignment for Everyone: TV Film Analysis
Choose a TV show (drama
or sitcom) and watch it critically with the following points
in mind from Professor Bullis' lecture Film as Art. You
may use lists instead of essay form, if you prefer (about 350 words). Address
all of the following points:
1. Give the title of the show. 2. Describe the story line or plot using the names of the principal characters. 3. Describe the Visual and Narrative Codes: a. Patterns of Appearance, Dress, Make-up, Speech, Sound b. Patterns of Camera, Lighting, Camera angles, Deep and Soft Focus, Editing, Music, Sound representing Narrative, Conflict, Character, Action, Dialogue
c . Patterns of Race,
Class, Patriarchy, Materialism, Individualism
Post your
essay in the TNMA 300 Forum #4.
http://ceilidh.uwsp.edu/rbullis/300/4/ceilidh.htm |
Read the Chapters for Week 5 by class next week. |
Week 5 - September 30-October 4
Readings:
Creators onCreating:
Fiction Authors II: Angelou [131-135], Momaday [157-165], Calvino [101-107]
50 Fast Digital Photo Techniques: Chapter 4 – “Combining Two or More
Images”
In Class:
Why Man Creates
film, and discussion of creativity pertaining to the film.
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PowerPoint Assignment: |
Assignment for Everyone: Using the information given in class on The Future of Creativity, Innovation, and Knowledge, create an essay explaining your thoughts and reasoning concerning The Future of Creativity, Innovation, and Knowledge. Post your essay in the TNMA 300 Forum #5. (Write an essay based on the class discussion of Citizen Kane and
creativity. Find several URLs to help expand your viewpoints into a
thoughtful essay and post your essay in the TNMA 300 Forum #5. )
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Read the Chapters for Week 6 by class next week. |
Week 6 - October 7-11
Readings: 50 Fast Digital Photo Techniques: Chapter 5 – “Techniques for
People Pictures”
Photographic Composition: Chapter 3 - "Photographic Controls"
In Class: |
PowerPoint Presentations: |
Assignment for Everybody:
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Read the Chapters for Week 7 by class next week. |
Week 7 - October 14-18
Readings:
Creators on Creating: Non-fiction Authors: Bennett
[74-80], Dillard [82-87], Jung [96-100], Milner [113-117]
50 Fast Digital Photo Techniques: Chapter 6 – “Traditional Photo
Techniques”
In Class: |
PowerPoint Assignment: Mind Mapping. |
Assignment for Everybody: Go to http://www.uwsp.edu/comm/rbullis/300/lectures.htm
and download Mapping software and prepare a Mind Map using an idea of your
own. Post your results on the Discussion Board. |
Read the Chapters for Week 8 by class next week. |
Week 8 - October 21-25
Readings:
Creators on Creating:World issues: Oyle [150-156], Callahan [216-223],
Johnson [59-62]
50 Fast Digital Photo Techniques: Chapter 7 – “Natural Media
Techniques”
Photographic Composition: Chapter 4 – “Color Controls"
In Class: |
PowerPoint Assignment: |
Assignment for Everybody: From your readings in Sight Sound Motion and Chapter 11 specifically, visualize a simple event, such as a man entering a house through the front door. Give various contexts (father coming home from work; salesman talking his way in; police officer interrogating a reluctant witness) and describe how your visualization would change, if at all, for each context. You are not limited to the above scene, you can create your own. Visualization means thinking in screen images, specifically, it means thinking in individual shots or brief shot sequences. The storyboard is a series of key visualization points and the corresponding audio track, if any. Besides the specific event context, visualization is also directed by a basic production approach - to look at an event, to look into an event, and/or to use the medium to create an event. Point of view (POV) means that the camera takes on a bias; it no longer describes, but comments on the event. Camera angles clarify and/or intensify the event and contribute to the overall style. Post your
essay in the TNMA 300 Forum #8. |
Read the Chapters for Week 9 by class next week. |
Week 9 - October 28-November 1
Readings:
50 Fast Digital Photo Techniques: Chapter 8 – “Creating Backgrounds,
Textures, and Frames”
In Class: Using Audio on your pages
Acid
On-line Tutorials Creating Great Audio for the Web Add streaming flash sound w/javascript Another way to stream by converting an . mp3 file to the . swf
format |
PowerPoint Assignment: |
Create a two-minute audio clip from the Acid loops. First, create a
short story, write it down, then choose the music that goes with the
story. Post your short story and the music in Forum #9. Also,
tell why you chose the music to go with your story. Acid Tutorial: http://www.uwsp.edu/comm/rbullis/300/lectures/acid.swf |
Read the Chapters for Week 10 by class next week. |
Week 10 - November 4-8
Readings:
Creators on Creating: Playwright and Film: Kushner [145-149], Bergman
[135-137]
50 Fast Digital Photo Techniques: Chapter 9 – “Thinking Outside the
Box Techniques”
Photographic Composition: Chapter 5 – “Total Control"
In Class: |
PowerPoint Assignment: |
Assignment for Everyone: Video and Music
Post your essay in the
TNMA 300 Forum #10. |
Read the Chapters for Week 11 by class next week. |
Week 11 - November 11-15
Readings: Creators on Creating: Imagination: Foucault [108-112], Milner [113-116],
Shelley [91-95], da Vinci [178-179]
In Class: |
PowerPoint Assignment: |
Assignment for Everyone: A Before and After Photo Assignment |
Read the Chapters for Week 12 by class next week. |
Week 12 - November 18-22
Readings:
Creators on Creating: Performance Artists: Fellini
[31-36], Duncan [207-209], Finley [209-211], Halprin [44-49]
Topic: Web design
In Class: |
PowerPoint Assignment: Find several of your own URLS to include in the presentation. |
Assignment for Everybody: Create a Swish short story or Holiday card Download Swish 2.0 (but this is already in the 301 lab) Swish Tutorials from Swishzone Tutorials from Flashkit More Swish Tutorials Recommendation: http://www.swish-tutorials.com/ http://www.citycollegiate.com/swishcontentpage.htm Open Source swi files at Flashkit to play with and change Free audio loops at Flashkit to play with and change Swish Help Files Swish menu
movie file to play with
Post your Swish assignment in the TNMA 300 Forum Forum #12. |
Read the Chapters for Week 13 by class next week. |
Week 13 - November 25-29
Readings: Creators
on Creating:
Musicians: Eno [165-169],
Tchaikovsky [180-184], Stravinsky [189-195], Zappa
[195-198]
Topic: Narration
In Class: |
PowerPoint Assignment: |
Assignment for Everybody for Weeks 13 and 14 Blackmail Assignment using Vegas Video from Sonic
Foundry
Post your link in the TNMA 300 Forum #13. |
Read the Chapters for Week 14 by class next week. |
Week 14 - December 2-6
Readings:
Creators on Creating: Mastery: Ogilvy [173-177], Herrigel [198-201]
Topic: Music in film/TV/Video
In Class: |
Read the Chapters for Week 15 by class next week. |
Week 15 - December 9-13
Readings:
Topic: Total Picture
Final Project for TNMA 300 A research paper could be on any of
the issues that were introduced in class such as camera angles, film
analysis, lighting, etc. A minimum of 5-7 pages of
written work is required for a research paper.
Both URLs and library books must be cited. A web design could be a multi-layered
design for a
business, arts group, movie theater, restaurant, etc.
A short paper would tell how and why you designed the particular
project, and the URLs of the many sites that you visited to get ideas and
style. A Christmas/Holiday card should
include graphics, music, color, a message, but must be able to be downloaded quickly. You might want to be part of a
two-person team that creates a short video, and perhaps your individual project
might be to write the short screenplay. Both members of the team
would explain your experience in making the film. All projects will be placed in Forum with a link to your
work, along with your
statement about why and how the work was created, and what its
significance is in relation to the course, course readings, and
discussions. Our goal is to make available each project in a web-published
form. We will show the Final Projects in Lab on the last
day of class as well as during the Final Exam period. |
Read the Chapters for Week 15 by class next week. |
Final Exam Period: Final Exam and Project Presentations (continued). |