Topics in Pre-Production (370-0-21)

Topic

Conceptual Design

Instructors

Eric Patrick
847/491-4229
AMS 214
Office Hours: Mondays 1:00PM-3:00PM, Wednesdays 10:00am-12:00pm

Meeting Info

Annie May Swift Hall 109: Tues 6:00PM - 8:50PM

Overview of class

This is a seminar that systematically explores sources of inspiration, and the structures that give form to those ideas. Each week, through lectures, screenings, readings, discussion, presentations, and critiques of student work, one theme of inspiration will be analyzed. This could include dream, myth, memory, music, math, appropriation, and adaptation. Students will generate weekly projects on these themes by creating prototypes that will include both a written and an image component to be critiqued by the class.

Registration Requirements

no prereq (no 190 prereq)

Learning Objectives

By the end of the quarter, students should have a strong working knowledge of their own personal voice, an ability to revise and expand their ideas, and to develop them in a systematic way. They should leave class with an understanding of several strategies to draw inspiration from, and specific ways to develop those strategies. They should also be adept at thinking visually and creating iconic images for their ideas, storyboarding these ideas, and disseminating these ideas into a compact, one-page format that gets to the essence of what they are trying to do. Finally, students should be able to identify the underlying structures and inspirational sources of films, and to critique peer work in a heuristic way.

Enrollment Requirements

Enrollment Requirements: Students must have completed RTVF 190-0 in order to register for this course (concurrent registration is not allowed) or be a student in Writing: MFA or Documentary Media: MFA programs