Students were asked to choose an original sequence selection from one of three films:

Battleship Potemkin

View original sequence (4.4MB, MPEG format).
See this film's IMDb record.

Metropolis

View original sequence (15.3MB, MPEG format).
See this film's IMDb record.

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

View original sequence (10.5MB, MPEG format).
See this film's IMDb record.

Using Adobe Premiere, re-edit chosen sequence for new effect. Write about the sequence, before and after, including motivations for new edits. This assignment offers opportunities to apply theory and technique lessons in actual project work.

Angel Gonzalez

View student's re-edited sequence (2.5MB, MPEG format) from Potemkin.
Read student's sequence analysis, before (PDF) and after (PDF) re-edit.

Phoebe Liu

View student's re-edited sequence (12.1MB, MPEG format) from Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.
Read student's sequence analysis, before (PDF) and after (PDF) re-edit.

Atiba Phillips

View student's re-edited sequence (7.2MB, MPEG format) from Metropolis.
Read student's sequence analysis, before (PDF) and after (PDF) re-edit.

Robert Ritchie

View student's re-edited sequence (7.1MB, MPEG format) from Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.
Read student's sequence analysis, before (PDF) and after (PDF) re-edit.

Risto Sarvas

View student's re-edited sequence (8.6MB, MPEG format) from Metropolis.
Read student's sequence analysis, before (PDF) and after (PDF) re-edit.

Lisa Wang

View student's re-edited sequence (1.6MB, MOV format) from Potemkin.

Ping Yee

View student's re-edited sequence (8.3MB, MPEG format) from Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.
Read student's sequence analysis, before (HTML) and after (HTML) re-edit.

Students were asked to create a 3-minute film, including design of a storyboard, shot plan, and various other formal preparatory steps to ensure the flow makes sense and is timed well. Edit film in Adobe Premiere:

"Atiba's Birthday Present -- Curry Chicken"

Catherine Lai, Phoebe Liu, Atiba Phillips, Ka-Ping Yee.
Group 1's PowerPoint presentation for project: .
(31.4MB, MPEG format)

"The Martini"

Xiaolei Chen, Robert Ritchie, Lisa Wang, David Warthen
(featuring Mahaad Ibrahim).
Group 2's PowerPoint presentation for project: .
(22.6MB, MPEG format)

"Hallways of I-House"

Angel Gonzalez, Lin Jiang, Ana Ramirez, Risto Sarvas (featuring Leigh Ashley Lipscomb, Gerasimos Rigas and Volinka Relna).
Group 3's PowerPoint presentation for project: .
(31.5MB, MPEG format)

The final project was an opportunity for students to integrate, apply, and demonstrate lessons learned from the class and previous assignments. Students had the option of doing a critique and redesign proposal of an existing system, redesigning and prototyping a module of an existing system, a proposal and literature review for the design of a new media production automation system, or a proposal and prototype for a new media production automation system.
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