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Big Screens 2015 Syllabus - Dates Always Tentative

Projects

Resources

Syllabus

Class 1: Meet at ITP, Friday, Sep 4, 3:20-5:50PM

####What is this class about?

  • Things that take up space. Big Screens as Architecture.
  • Things that take up time. Big Screens as Performance.
  • Past projects and Other Video Walls
  • Overview of IAC video wall system

####Logistics and Resources

  • Lightning round: What have you been thinking about?
  • Syllabus and schedule.

####What is Big Screens?

  • Big Screens as a medium.
  • Past Projects
  • Time, Space and the Time-Space Continuum
  • Analyzing something that takes time.

Notes from class

Homework:
  • Set up a blog / site for your project (you may add a category to an existing blog). Each week, you should post documentation of project progress to your site. Link to it from here.
  • Set-up your dropbox folder (1 per team) and share it with mimi.yin@nyu.edu
  • Analyze something, post your analysis to your blog. | See guidelines.

Class 2: Improv Storyboarding @ITP Friday, Sep 11, 3:20-5:50PM

Homework:
  • Create a 3 minute piece. We will look at it on the wall at IAC the following week.
    • 1920x1080 is fine. Don't get hung up on going fullscreen!
    • Scaling the size of the video 2x isn't a problem. Remember the bottom 140 pixels will be cut-off.
    • If it is under 2GB, upload it to your dropbox folder. Otherwise bring it on a USB stick.
  • Set up your Dropbox Folder and put your homework in it

Class 3: Three-Minute-Piece @IAC Friday, Sep 18, Time?

  • Present your 3 minute piece.
Homework:

Class 4: Tutorials @ITP Friday Sep 25, 12:00-6PM

Homework:

Class 5: Test Visuals @IAC Thurs Oct 2, Friday Oct 3

Homework: First Draft
  • Post documentation of your visual tests to your blog.
  • You're commissioned to create a piece for the IAC Video Wall. You have 1 week to cobble together a draft.

Class 6: First Draft @IAC Thurs Oct 8, @IAC Friday, Oct 9

Homework: Project Proposal

  • Prepare a 5 minute presentation of your Project Proposal | Guidelines
  • What technologies are you thinking of using?

Class 7: Proposals @IAC Friday, Oct 16, 2:30-5PM

  • Present proposals
Homework:
  • Nail down your production plan for mid-terms: Guidelines.

Class 8: @IAC Thurs Oct 22, Friday Oct 23

Class 9: Mid-terms @IAC Fri Oct 30, 10-2:30PM

Class 10: Work @IAC Thurs Nov 5, Fri Nov 6, 3:20-5:50PM

Class 11: @IAC Thurs Nov 12, @IAC Friday, Nov 13

Class 12: @IAC Thurs Nov 19, @IAC Friday, Nov 20

Dress Rehearsal, Friday Nov 20 6:30-8PM

Projects should be !!DONE!! at this point!. As this is your last opportunity to work on the wall.

The Show! Friday Dec 4

The show will run twice through with speakers in between. Doors open at 6PM. 1st set usually starts 6:30PM.

Class 14: Wrap-up at ITP Friday Dec 11 3:20-5:50PM

Class description

This class is dedicated to experimenting with interactivity on large-scale screens. Students will develop one project over the course of the semester, culminating with a showing at InterActiveCorp’s 120 X 11-foot video wall at their corporate headquarters on 18th and the West Side Highway. A mock-up of the system will be available at ITP for testing. Class time will be divided between independent project development, critique, technical demonstrations, and field trips to IAC. Group projects are encouraged.

Requirements:

  • Class participation and attendance
  • Weekly development of project
  • Project documentation
  • The final project itself