Syllabus overview
No food or drinks in lab
(This is serious, infractions will result in the cancellation of your lab privileges)
Reserved Scratch disk use and policy

Class Demands
Show up
Meet deadlines
Assignments
Grading Policy

Social Hour
Meet and Greet
What is your field
What media do you like/hate

Lecture Time
- The Creative Process

FCP Basics
-Setting it up
-Popular Tools
-Opening and saving
-Importing
-Cutting and Dissolving
-Adding tracks
-Linking and Unlinking audio/video

Lecture Time
- Why be an Artist?

Advanced FCP
-logging and capturing
-advanced transitions
-audio import
-text tool
-DVE moves
-more layering
-exporting QT files
-exporting to Tape
-Cropping
-Layering

Format and Compression
-Different broadcast formats
-Copmpressor basics

Lecture Time
What is criticism?

ASSIGNMENT FOR NEXT CLASS::
Midterm

-Review many videos

Advanced FCP Functions
-Filters
-Color Correction
-Layer States
-Animating Keyframes

Photoshop for FCP users
-Opening
-Sizing
-Levels filter
-Exporting

Soundtrack
-creating
-export to Final Cut

Shooting theory
-Camera Techniques
-Audio Basics
-Lighting Basics

MIdterm Due at end of class

Editing, Story, Narrative Theory
-Basics of Editing
-Basics of Story structure

Edit Theory and Examples
-Basics of Editing
-Story and Narrative
-The Cop and the Squirrel
-The Hire
-My First Time
-Mike Stickrod's Piece
-Maya Deren

ASSIGNMENTS DUE:
ART STATEMENT
IN YOUR EYES LINK

FINAL