Final Project Proposal / due Oct. 26

Once you and I discuss and agree upon one idea to pursue for your final project, your production process, shooting, and audio recording should begin immediately. You will also need to write up the idea in a Final Project Proposal. For full credit, these proposals should be 1 or 2 typed paragraphs, and they should contain the following information:

1. A one-sentence description of your project idea
2. Next, answer the following question: how will the video deliver my subject's meaning or story in a new or fresh way? In other words, how will your video be different than anything we've seen before?
3. 5 specific shots you plan to include to best express the subject matter.
4. 5 specific sounds you plan to include to best express the subject matter.
5. The specific sounds you imagine you will use for foreground, middleground,
and background tracks
6. The specific change or transformation you imagine will take place from the beginning of the piece to the end. Or in other words, what will the viewer learn, uncover, or realize at the end of the project that he or she was unaware of at the start. (Hint: Think about which images can achieve this transformation/revelation, which sounds?)

Welcome to Basic Video!

Your Poem, Man...

unless there’s one; thing seen
suddenly against another - a parsnip
sprouting for a President, or
hailstones melting in an ashtray--
nothing really happens. It takes
surprise and will connection.
doesn’t it? A walrus chewing
on a ballpoint pen. Two blue tail-
lights on Tyrannosaurus Rex, Green
cheese teeth. Maybe what we wanted
least. Or most. Some unexpected
pleats. Words that never knew
each other till right now. Plug us
into the wrong; socket and see
what blows -- or what lights up.
Try
untried
circuitry
new
fuses.
Tell it like it never really was,
man,
and maybe we can see it
like it is.

-Edward Lueders