DESMA 24 : Motion
UCLA Spring 2008
Instructor: Sean Dockray (sdockray -at- ucla -dot- edu)
TA: Yiting Wang (yitingwhy -at- ucla -dot- edu)
Ten week studio course, 2 x 3 hours, outside study 5 hours.
Time: TTh 9:00A - 11:50A Location: Broad 4230
Office Hours:
Sean Dockray: T 12-1 pm Broad 4230
Yiting Wang: M 12:30-1:30
Class website: http://classes.design.ucla.edu/Spring08/24
Description
This course is organized to teach the aesthetics and fundamentals of motion and its application to design and media arts through an introduction of the basic concepts and tools for the design of moving images. In a series of exercises and a final project, students will explore principles and aesthetics of moving imagery
including timing, pacing, repetition, editing, composition, resolution, process, and the link between sound and image.
Class time will include class discussions, student presentations, software and equipment tutorials and studio time for project development. Emphasis will be placed on developing a coherent spoken and visual vocabulary and its integration with artistic concepts.
Evaluation
Students will complete four projects, plus one group project. Projects will be evaluated based on their aesthetic and conceptual qualities, innovative approach to the medium, and effort. All projects must be completed in order to pass the course. Late assignments will reduce the numeric score of the assignment. Exercises are only considered as completed when they are accessible from the course website. Attendance will be expected at all classes. More than 2 unexcused absences will result in failure. Absences require professor notification and permission, prior to class. If a student is late 3 times, this will count as an unexcused absence and will affect your grade.
Grading
80% Project 1- 4
10% Group Project
10% Participation
Projects
1: Music videos for lock grooves (20 points)
2: Portrait, or the relationship between stillness and motion (20 points)
3: Translations from poem to animation (20 points)
4: If Cezanne, Klee, Van Gogh (etc.) were alive today (20 points)
Group project (10 points)
You can do projects 1-4 in any order you want. Projects 1-3 must include one rotoscope-based animation, one stop-motion animation, and one After Effects animation (in any order you want). For Project 4, you are free to use any of the three techniques (including combinations).