It’s been a few years since I taught a film or video course. The time has come, and I’m looking forward to it. This is an introductory course so no previous experience with video shooting or editing is requires. We’ll have some new HD camera gear to play with!

Here’s the description:

ATEC (EMAC) 7V82 This course will introduce graduate level students to the principles and process of digital video production in a desktop environment. The emphasis is on real world shooting with a guerrilla style approach. students will learn basic shooting methods, composition, cinematography, editing, and interview techniques. We will also spend time analyzing & discussing contemporary film and video productions both for traditional and networked media. Final project is a short video or series presented on the web and/ or mobile devices.

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Dr. Al Brackin describes the Spring Emerging Media Course, ARG Lab: “This is Not a Game” is the catchphrase for “Alternate Reality Games”, the newest form of Interactive Online Entertainment. They were born from interactive forms of viral “Guerrilla Advertising” and are made up by a blending of Social Networks, Interactive Fiction, and MMOG concepts with Emerging Media of all kinds. This intensive graduate-level lab class will dive head first into the theory of ARG development first hand. Students will be testing the known boundaries of “Interactive Online Entertainment” and “Chaotic Fiction” by actually going “behind the curtain” as actual “Puppet Masters” while taking a role on the team that will be writing, creating, and running our own working Alternate Reality Game. Working knowledge of online interactive entertainment concepts is required. Contact Dr. Brackin (alb032000 (at) utdallas.edu) for more information.

(EMAC Courses are listed under ATEC until Fall 2009) ATEC 7V82.501 Advanced Projects in Interactive Media Alternate Reality Gaming ATEC 1.104 Wednesdays 7:00 – 9:45