COURSE SCHEDULE
This schedule is subject to change:

WINTER 2020 Strategies of Alterity: Sci-Fi, Other Worlds, Space

CLASS OUTLINE (Some items are subject to change)

Week 1: Drafting Space Opera
Tu - Define the terms - which science-fiction? - Pre-production & ideation work
Th - Planets, Landscapes, Terrain Workshop: World building from landscapes and plates - using photography and Photoshop to generate plates for conceptual-design. (students will need to bring to class original landscape images for use during the workshop)

Week 2: Communication
Tu - Alien languages, cultures, relations
Th - Workshop: animating pre-production assets (students will need to bring to class one scan of a storyboard or concept art for use during the workshop).

Week 3: Terra
Tu - Evolution vs. Decentralization of Humanity

Th - Class cancelled - attend workshop on Monday, January 27 10am - 12pm in MANDE B206

Workshop (1/27/20 - 10am - MANDE B206): Set-extension - using digital tools to composite shots (students will need to bring to class at least one original still image and one motion-picture clip for use during the workshop).

Week 4: Critiques
pre-production/concept-design pitch

Week 5: Revolution
Tu - Space is the Place - The Cosmos as Liberation Vehicle
Th - Designing the Interface for Space
Workshop (2/7/20 - 12:30pm - VAF 228): GUI integration in set-design: designing & animating assets for in-picture HUD interface / composite shots (students will need to bring assets to class for use during the workshop).

Week 6: Arrivals
Tu - The Stakes of Arrival to Earth
Th - TBD

Workshop (2/10/20 - 10am - MANDE B206): Green screen workshop and mattes.

Week 7: Critiques
draft sequences and rough composite/VFX shots & sound-assets

Week 8: Lost
Tu -Isolation in the void.
Th - Workshop: Compositing, blending, and in-camera techniques for visual-abstraction for use in GUI elements, space elements, etc. (students will need to bring assets to class for use during the workshop)..

Week 9: In Space
Tu - Adrift
Th - Workshop TBD

Week 10: Critiques
finished sequences with finished composite/VFX shots and sound-design

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