Course Overview

In this first lecture, we'll do general housekeeping. We'll discuss the course syllabus, the course outline, and this weblog.

We'll discuss my expectations of you, and also what you may expect of me.

Additionally, it would be good to begin any endeavor with a clue. Today we talk about what digital video means on the web; its constraints, how that effects production and narrative.

Adobe Premiere Intro

We will be using Adobe Premiere on the mac as our digital video editing application. In today's class you will do some basic editing to familiarize yourselves with both the software and notions of timing.

Class Exercise:
Download at least 3 movies from the Prelinger Archives.

ReEdit them.

Reading Assignment:

Resources:
http://www.netvid.com <-- allows you to download video files from youtube (and other places)
Creativecommons.org/video/