Course Schedule

Week 1, Jan 12 // Introduction to the Course

Workshop:     Concepts: Defining “Media” & “Social Movements” / Tour of Media Lab 

LabJournal 1:    Brief Reflection on the Power of Imagery

Read:        Barthes, “The Photographic Message”

        Godrej, “Neoliberalism, Militarization and the Price of Dissent”

        Fuentes, “Performance, Politics, and Protest"

Week 2, Jan 19 // Visual Politics of Protest

Student Movements

Concepts:    Breaking Down the Image & the Stories They Tell

LabJournal 2:    Document Graduate Student Walk-Out + Write Reflection 

Read:        Shawn Michelle Smith, Scientific Propaganda 

        Cole, The Superhero Photographs of the Black Lives Matter Movement

        Mirzoeff, “What Protest Looks Like”

** Sat, Jan. 21 – Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema from UCLA (Zeinabu Irene Davis, 2016)

2pm, San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts

Week 3 // Jan 26 // The Politics of Portraiture 

#BlackLivesMatter

Concepts:    Politics of the Gaze / Capturing the Documentary Subject  

Workshop:    Using the Canon 80D DSLR

LabJournal4:    Create Photo Essay about Classmate 

Read:         Working Narratives, “How Can We Elicit Good Stories from an Interview?” 

        Marshall Ganz, “Public Narrative”

        How Documentary is Changing Racial Narratives 

Week 4 // Feb 2 // Moving Images, Moving Stories

#UndocumentedandUnafraid

Concepts:     Public Narrative, Collective Action 

        The Call-to-Action Video

Workshop:    Recording On-Location Sound + Dual Audio Video Production

LabJournal4:    Group Assignment – Shoot Interview Using Public Narrative Template

Read:        Montage

        Folkenflik, “Manipulative Editing Reflects Poorly On Katie Couric, Gun                 Documentary” (NPR)

        Working Narratives, “Storytelling and Social Change: A Strategy Guide” 

        Lim, “Want to Know How to Build a Progressive Movement Under Trump? Look 

        to Standing Rock”

Week 5, Feb 9 // Call-To-Action Videos & the Vision of Solidarity

#NoDAPL, Standing Rock 

Concepts:    Montage

Workshop:    Editing in Adobe Premiere, Pt. 1 - Start at 10am?            

        12-1pm: Media Lab Video Compression

LabJournal 5:    Create 1-Min Rough Cut of CTA Video Piece

Read:         Editing

        AudioVision 

** Media Lab Workshop – After Effects Titles (MCC 251)

Fri, Feb 10, 2pm 

Week 6, Feb 16 // Producing Call-to-Action Videos – Editing, II

Project 1 Prompt Distributed

Workshop:    Editing in Adobe Premiere, Pt. 2

LabJournal 6:    Polish 1-Min Rough Cut of CTA Video Piece

Read:        No readings / Work on Project 1

** Media Lab Workshop: Video Compression (MCC 251)

Fri, Feb 17, 3pm

Week 7, Feb 23 // Building a Media Campaign from the Ground Up

#StandWithNanHui

Concepts:    Digital Organizing / Social Media Messaging / Finding Your Audience

Workshop:    Open Lab Time – Work on Project 1

Read:        No readings / Work on Project 1

Week 8, Mar 2 // Project 1 Due // Surveillance & Communications Security After 9/11 – Workshop w/ ACLU (TBD) 

Project 2 Prompt Distributed

Week 9, Mar 9 // TBD

Week 10, Mar 16 // TBD