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3.00 Credits
Students are introduced to the vocabulary of photography through a series of projects designed to increase their perceptual skills. Emphasis is on exploring the world with a camera in order to understand the unique properties of photographic form and then to learn how to use these properties for communication and self-expression. Exposure, development and darkroom skills are taught concurrently. Elective: 3 credits/ semester; 6 hours/week. No prerequisite. A lab fee is charged; see rate schedule.
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3.00 Credits
This course, based on a series of weekly assignments and critiques, leads students through a systematic and comprehensive investigation of the elements of the photographic language. Issues of the landscape, the portrait and the constructed image are explored. Emphasis is placed on expanding and refining technical control of the medium and developing the ability to discuss and critique each other's work. Elective: 3 credits/ semester; 6 hours/week. Prerequisite: PH 101 or instructor permission. A lab fee is charged; see rate schedule.
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3.00 Credits
M&M is a class that gives students who have completed Meca's introductory photography classes the skill sets to produce work of higher fidelity and control than previously realized. This class is a workshop style class, which incorporates the use of the view camera, artificial lighting and digital printing skills. The class will work through a series of assignments designed to explore these three important areas of image making. Weekly critiques and demonstrations will reveal how form, content, and materials used affect how images function. Students will learn fundamental techniques associated with the 4x5 inch view camera. Once secure with the camera, students will use lighting equipment in the studio and on location. Simultaneously the class will learn film scanning, image manipulation and raster image processing software to digitally print their photographs. The last five weeks of the class will culminate to produce a series of self-directed images using all skills and equipment covered over the semester. Elective: 3 credits/semester; 6 hours/ week. Prerequisites: PH 101, and PH 102, or permission from the instructor.
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8.00 Credits
Super 8mm Filmmaking is a cinematography course. The core assignments are designed after narrative filmmaking structures that facilitate camera use, lighting, sound, editing, script writing, etc. Although storytelling is a large part of this course, non-narrative and experimental filmmaking will also be emphasized. Home movies, found films, hand processing, a visual diary, performance, scratching or drawing onto film, etc. will coexist with various presentation methods. Installation, multiple projection, loop films, outdoor or gorilla projection, making photographic prints from film frames, flip books and computer use are a few considerations for presenting super 8mm films. Five films will be made as a class. Everyone will collaborate taking turns as director, editor, lighting technician, talent, sound technician, camera person, etc. As many films as necessary will be made individually. Five core assignments with others based on your experimentation will culminate in a final film at no less than fifteen minutes in length. There are a few cameras for loan. Having your own camera is recommended, try e-bay or ask relatives, it seems someone has a super 8mm camera somewhere, just ask around. There is a special account set up through MECA , with Kodak's Filmmaking Department. With your student ID super 8mm film is almost half the price of retail. No prerequisite. E-mail Peter Shellenberger with any questions: pshellenberger@meca.edu
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3.00 Credits
This is primarily a critique class in which each student can concentrate on a semester long self-directed project. Group critiques are supplemented by discussions of articles about issues in the contemporary photography/art world. Slides, videos and fieldtrips will also supplement the course work. The course is designed to encourage each student to explore his/her individual photographic concerns and style in depth before embarking on the Thesis Presentation during the Senior year. 3credits/semester. A lab fee is charged, see rate schedule. Prerequisite: PH 101 & PH 102 or permission from the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
PH 322-This critique class, supplemented with appropriate readings and slide presentations, is designed to allow each junior to explore the forms and content of his/her own work. Prerequisite: Basic Photography, Intermediate Photography or permission from the instructor. 3 credits per semester. A lab fee is charged, see rate schedule. PH 422-This advanced project allows each student to work independently, with weekly group and individual critiques, to produce a body of work that can then be refined into a final presentation form-portfolio, exhibition, book, installation, etc.-for the Senior Thesis Exhibition. Editing, sequencing, and presentation methods are covered in detail. 3credits/semester. A lab fee is charged, see rate schedule.
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3.00 Credits
Since the invention of photography image-makers such as Hippolite Bayard, F Holland Day and Julia Margaret Cameron have sought to have their pictures function in a fictional manner. DPOP encourages students to use photography in a more contemporary mode. The first part of the course students create scenes that allow them to direct character's interactions and narratives often relating to cinematic sensibilities. Great emphasis will be placed on formal considerations such as framing, light, spatial relationships, and prop styling. The second part of the class students will use photography as a final interpretation (not documentation) of three-dimensional objects. The class will work independently and collaboratively to photograph sculptural objects and temporal installations. Through the use of light, point of view, and other common photographic techniques the class will strive to create images that transcend the object, or creation into a two-dimensional form. 3 credits 6 contact hours Prerequisites: PH 101 or NM 101. *This course is required of 08/09 Junior Photography Majors, and open to any major.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to basic printmaking techniques, including monoprint, intaglio (etching), stone lithography, and relief printing, using an experimental approach to the graphic media. Emphasis is on investigating visual structures, color, design, and drawing, by means of the print process. The class provides an introduction to the breadth of printmaking media, and positions the student to take a higher level elective in the following semester. Elective: 3 credits/ semester; 6 hours/week. No prerequisite. Students can repeat this course at the 200 level, and concentrate on developing personal imagery, utilizing a range of print media. At the 200 level, the responsibility of direction, and problem solving will shift to the student as initial assignments proceed into more independent projects. Elective: 3 credits/semester; 6 hours/week. Prerequisite: PR 100
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3.00 Credits
Of all traditional print matrices, screenprint allows the most rapid, agile application of images to the widest variety of surfaces, including paper, plastic, canvas, fabric, and wood. Its technical versatility makes it an essential point of exchange in the free flowing traffic of images and ideas across disciplines. This course provides a technical introduction to the medium, including the study of color, and design, utilizing painterly and drawn methods. Hand cut and photographic stencils are also introduced. Through directed projects and readings students investigate how artists have used screenprint as a distinct art form. Elective: 3 credits/semester; 6 hours/week. No prerequisite.
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3.00 Credits
This Topics in Printmaking class will explore the instinct to collect and the impact of what artists collect on what they make and of what they make on what they collect. We will consider how collecting certain things is socially sanctioned while the amassing of other things is denigrated as "hoarding." Students will research andreport on a collection of their choosing and a particular form of collectible. Students will create individual bodies of collectibles as well as collaborate on a grouping of collectibles in a format they determine. Site visits to collections of widely varying types will enhance students' understanding of contemporary collecting and how each collector becomes a curator of sorts. Printmaking media will be taught as appropriate, such as silkscreen, etching, and relief techniques. Ink-jet and commercial offset printing will be explored as well as stereolithography, an additive fabrication process by which forms designed digitally are "printed" in threedimensions using a photopolymer material. Mold-making and casting of small objects will also come into play as appropriate. Students will collaboratively promote the collection of their works by established and first-time collectors through an event or limited edition offering they conceive and execute. Elective: 3 credits/ semester; 6 hours/week. No prerequisite.
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