# Log of Meetings
(in reverse order)

## 20211118
Wesley workshop (session 3 of 3)

**attendees**: MDFs - Wesley, Tetsuya; LLUFs - David, Charlie, Ammara, Marcus, Fechi, Aissata

**notes**
* Aissata - How to Get Away with Murder video essay/scene analysis; Aissata still needs to re-record audio but the scene analysis is super compelling and clearly anchored in evidence from the scene.
* Ammara - advises when re-recording to pay attention to space you're recording in because it can change the sound; Ammara is working on a Pride and Prejudice (2004) scene analysis; Ammara is interested in the device of 'a world within a world' - an intimate world constituted by two characters
* Marcus - Kill Your Darlings (2013) scene analysis; interested in how these scenes are about destruction (especially through drug use), modernism, 'creating something new' as a modernist impulse ('destroying the old'); who gets to create something new - this is about class and privilege

Tools discussed:
* VoiceMemo - actually pretty good for recording audio!

## 20211104
Wesley workshop (session 2 of 3)

## 20211014

Wesley Workshop (session 1 of 3)

## 20211007

_first cluster 2 meeting!!_

**attendees:** MK, JK, Wesley (Film + Video), Ammara (in AFVS151-doing a travel essay), Emmy, Vanessa (manipulate lighting, capture a good shot, and editing), Aissata (television, wants to level up technical aspects, interested in narrative more than documentary), Fechi (in French40), Marcus (technical and narratives, audio and stories through music), Molly (storytelling)

**notes**
* examples of what you want to do and make--let's share them
* AFVS70 is a key course we are suporting. The Art of Film. Workshop midule about making video essay witing framework of the essay film. and an essay film about the essay film. a toolkit for teaching the essay film-the workshops and resources.
* replicate scenes. recreate a shot. quasi-theorehtical film analysis-what moves you, compells you--ko what are the tech aspects, strcuture to get that? then to theory and terms. talk about key scenes from films--a close reading.
* dissect a scene-cut it up, edit to say something.
* could analyze a youtuber like contrapoints.
* Eduarda's course--midterm is a video essay--in portugese. starting with text-then making into VO/etc for the video. Will have office hours--excersize of scene analysis. work with Jessi on voice excercises.

## 20211001

we talked a bit about cluster 2 in the MDF meeting.

* Jessi's work in theatreLab is definitely feeding ideas into Cluster 2
* Eduarda is curious to learn this material!
* Turning your essay in a script, writing stage directions - how you adapt a novel into a play or movie.
* Wants to create a video essay for her capstone presentation.
* Using story arcs / story shapes.
* Eduarda's projects
* She is working on a course about Brazilian Cinema
* Students have to work on making videos. Students have to write a critical essay about traditions in Brazilian Cinema, then illustrate and add VO to make it into an essay film.
* For their final, students will be making a short film.
* How to integrate visual art and video making with complex theories, a video project that's been in the works since 2014.
* Other projects in this realm:
* Wesley - The Essay Film in AFVS, The Art of Film course with Laura Frahm
* Eduarda is curious if these will be available to use in Portug40
* (might also be good to schedule a workshop)
* Ignacio - Working on podcasting in Spanish courses
* French 30 - Podcasting
* French 40 - Video essays
* SCRB111 - Explainer videos
* AMST201 - Academic conference of the future, presenting a conference paper
* ANE197 - Podcasting