VIS 175: EDITING THEORY AND PRODUCTION SP17

ASSIGNMENTS

• 1. FRAMING / CUTTING
• 2. CONTINUITY OBJECTS / RHYTHM OBJECTS
• 3. SHOT BY SHOT PRESENTATION
• 4. DOCUMENTARY WORKSHOP
• 5. FINAL
• 6. STRUCTURAL FILM WORKSHOP

READINGS

• Walter Murch: excerpts from Blink of an Eye
• Eisenstein: Collision
• --- Reading Prompts 1 ---
• Hegel: Dialectical Thinking
  Make special note of "Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis" there's a lot of elaboration on this if you Google it
• --- Reading Prompts 2 ---
• Pg. 16 - 23
  For overview of Eisensteins categories of montage
  Note that this book is available online with your UCSD email address.
• Blindsided: A Case Study of Editing a Documentary
• --- Reading Prompts 3 ---
• Five explanations for the jump cuts in Godard's Breathless
• Structural Films: Meditation through Simple Forms
• Reading Prompts 4

RESOURCES

• Editing as Punctuation
  Also, Great Example of Video Essay
• QUIZ TERMS
• FINAL shot list document
• Shot by Shot Presentation Schedule
  Note that the date has been pushed ahead by 1 class meeting
• Media Lab workshop schedule
  (consider following if you are on tumblr)
• PRACTICE: Project w/ full production stems