Technology Arts Training Program
Digital Journalism Curriculum
for full (180 day) program

1st Semester: 85 Days (Aug-Dec)
2nd Semester: 95 Days (Jan -May)

• Introduction
• Review of pilot project
• Review of current demos (still with timeline with public context and animated lesson)
• BRIEF TRAINING: composing the still image
• BEGIN PRODUCTION: They sketch/plan their still image
• CLASS LITE CRITIQUE: own still images
• FINISH PRODUCTION: They complete/ redo their still image (art materials)
• BRIEF TRAINING: Brainstorming and Story boarding
• BRIEF PRODUCTION: brainstorm and story board own lesson
• CLASS LITE CRITIQUE: own story board (students make changes to story boards)
  -this initial plan is documented as a 'baseline' (to see if lesson changes throughout and after completing senior lessons)
• TRAINING: Audio recording training
• PRODUCTION: audio recording own lesson and editing (sound booth)
• CLASS CRITIQUE: own lesson audio and redo production session
• TRAINING: photography
• PRODUCTION: photography (or collab w/ other students) own lesson
• CLASS CRITIQUE: own lesson photos and redo production session
• TRAINING: Video recording
• PRODUCTION: video recording own lesson
• CLASS CRITIQUE: own lesson video and redo production session
• TRAINING: AfterEffects, Photoshop, Flash
• TRAINING with Demo Project: Animation
  -using AfterEffects’ faceTracking, lipSync, Premiere, Photoshop and digital tablets, and Flash
  -http://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/video/pro-video-tools.html?trackingid=KSCUJ
• TRAINING with Demo Project: responsive web design: for mobile
• They choose a senior subject from profiles I’we collected
• We assign production crew roles (each senior subject assigned 3 students: audio, visual, animation/ interactivity)
• TRAINING: They are trained on ethnographic field work
  -getting subject comfortable, isolating and capturing the story
• They gather subject resources:  interviews (isolate a story), photos, video (transportation plan)
• CLASS CRITIQUE:
  -assess worthiness of each story
  -assess quality of resources:, audio, images, video (determine ‘re-dos’)
  -Brainstorm composition of still image for each story selected
  -Brainstorm story treatment for each story selected
  --block out story board
  --recommendations for effects
• TRAINING: soundtrack (music production software, creative commons music)
• INDIVIDUAL CONFERENCE: with resources, workflow recommendations
• PRODUCTION: senior subject
  -audio, photo, video editing
  -animating
  -exporting
• Creation of stills (me: watercolors)
• FINAL CRITIQUE
• CLASS EVALUATION & FINAL EXERCISE (story board original student lesson or new lesson)
• SHOW (at school: student’s own icons, senior subject’s icons)
• INSTALLATION (at institution, transportation plan)

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