Student Projects

Assignment 1: Sequence re-edit
Assignment 1
Assignment 2: Object lesson
Assignment 2
Assignment 3: Short media production
Assignment 3

Final project: Digital media system design
Final Project Overview and Milestones

Final Project: Overview

Milestone 2: Proposal

Milestone 3: Design Specs (sample from previous class)

Milestone 4: Presentations and Milestone 5: Write-Ups

Assignment 1: Sequence re-edit

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

Battleship Potemkin
View original sequence (112MB, AVI format).
See this film's IMDb record.

Metropolis
View original sequence (327MB, AVI format).
See this film's IMDb record.

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
View original sequence (271MB, AVI format).
See this film's IMDb record.

Using Adobe Premiere, each student re-edited their chosen sequence for new effect, and then analyzed the sequence, before and after, including their motivations for new edits. This assignment offered an opportunity to apply theory and technique studied in class to actual project work.

Gokce Kinayoglu's re-edit of Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Gokce Kinayoglu
View student's re-edited sequence (10MB, MPEG format).
Read student's sequence analyses, before and after the re-edit.

Cecilia Kim's re-edit of Battleship Potemkin

Cecilia Kim
View student's re-edited sequence (3MB, MPEG format).
Read student's sequence analyses, before and after the re-edit.

Brooke Maury's re-edit of Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Brooke Maury
View student's re-edited sequence (7MB, MPEG format).
Read student's sequence analyses, before and after the re-edit.

Simon King
View student's re-edited sequence (10MB, MPEG format).
Read student's sequence analyses, before and after the re-edit.

Rebecca Shapley's re-edit of Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Rebecca Shapley
View student's re-edited sequence (242MB, AVI format).
Read student's sequence analyses, before and after the re-edit.

Shane Ahern's re-edit of Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Shane Ahern
View student's re-edited sequence (9MB, MPEG format).
Read student's sequence analyses, before and after the re-edit.

Jeff Heer's re-edit of Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Jeff Heer
View student's re-edited sequence (4MB, MPEG format).
Read student's sequence analyses, before and after the re-edit.

Assignment 2: Object lesson

Students were asked to observe the space that is involved in an interaction between a person and an everyday object, and to use the video camera to explore and articulate the characteristics of this space.

Gokce Kinayoglu
View "Bread" (42MB, MPEG format).

Simon King
View "Bridge" (28MB, MPEG format).

Cecilia Kim
View "Soda" (8MB, MPEG format).

Brooke Maury
View "Water Cooler" (33MB, MPEG format).

Rebecca Shapley
View "Backpack" (17MB, MPEG-4 format).

Assignment 3: Short media production

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.

Dear Adrian
Simon King, Gokce Kinayoglu, Nick Reid, Rebecca Shapley
A video letter to a loved one far away. View "Dear Adrian" (13MB, MPEG-4 format).

Final project: Digital media system design

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. See the project overview.

iFlix
Cecilia Kim, Nick Reid, Rebecca Shapley
iFlix is a proposed new member of the Apple iLife product suite, designed to help users manage movie files on their computers and pointers to streaming video files. By using iFlix, people fulfill their own needs while simultaneously enhancing the pool of metadata annotation available for video content. Learn more at the project site.

Mobile Media Asset Management
Shane Ahern, Simon King, Jeffrey Heer
A simple phone-based annotation and organization system for photos. The prototype introduces the concept of a feed to route photos to a variety of destinations over a variety of network protocols, and provides a user interface for sending and tracking photos. Read the project writeup, or download the prototype.