Current Schedule

**Daily Class Videos Posted Here By 9am the day of class.

**UPDATE: All Assignments are Due by 11pm the day after they are assigned (Example: a Homework posted on Monday is due Tuesday by 11pm, Homework posted on Friday is due Monday by 11pm).

Optional Video: Can you say anything is objectively good or bad?

 

Friday’s Class (7/10):

By Monday at 11pm:

  1. Read Ta-Nehisi Coates Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 1 (available in Hoopla) https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12003731 **You will need to create a Hoopla account and create a library card account (it is all free)

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Week 4:  What is Good Fanfiction? (7/13-7/17)

Monday’s Class (7/13):

Topic: Case Study, Black Panther (Watch Movie and short video, No Lecture)

Watch: Black Panther (https://catalog.lib.unc.edu/catalog/UNCb9885597)

(https://catalog.lib.unc.edu/catalog/UNCb9885597)

  1. Post in Forums: Do you consider Coates’ version of Black Panther to be a type of fanfiction?
  2. Group Discussion of Black Panther Recording (https://unc.zoom.us/rec/share/6td4JrOv11lOSK_vsWr6d6MjMIbUT6a8hnVK-aEOe_FP1daYjFb1GyuTwaAdlQ?startTime=1594677803000) Password: 3q*4%0oi

Tuesday’s Class (7/14):

Topic: Case Study, Watchmen (Watch Episode, No Lecture)

**Recording of Episode here (sorry it is not the best quality, hard to get around copyright on this one).

Watch: Episode 1: Watchmen (2019): https://www.hbo.com/watchmen

Homework:

1. Read: Watchmen pages 1-26 (Alan Moore) https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12396531

2. Optional: Watch Watchmen movie (https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/watchmen).  If you are interested, I will stream the movie tonight at 7pm: https://unc.zoom.us/j/2136333837

3. Post in Forums: How would you categorize the three Watchmen texts (adaptation, fanfiction, primary text)? Why?

 

Wednesday’s Class (7/15):

Topic: Medium is the Message part 2

Workshop Creating a Website:

Example: https://grantg.web.unc.edu/

Homework:

  1. Read: Isolation by Bex-chan https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6291747/1/Isolation
  2. Optional: If you need a refresher on Half Blood Prince: Why The Half Blood Prince is the Best Harry Potter Book (Video Essay) By MovieFlame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkvkVBrdCxQ
  3. Post in Forums: Compare some of the “fanfictions” we have discussed so far.

Optional: Group Discussion of Watchmen at 4pm (Wednesday, 7/15)

(https://unc.zoom.us/j/2136333837).

Thursday’s Class (7/16):

Workshop Creating your Video Narrative

**Ensure you have downloaded Adobe Premier Pro from Adobe Creative Cloud.  If you downloaded inDesign already, this should be easy!

Watch the following Videos:

 

Fan Fiction Example:

Homework: Write your video narrative out in preparation to record it for tomorrow.

Think about:

  • What’s the fanfiction’s interesting “story”?
  • Be sure to include basic information about your fanfiction genre or individual work (when it was made and why, anything notable about its form or construction).
  • What is/are the general cultural context(s) we need to know about to understand the fanfiction?
  • What can be said about controversies or conflicts related to your fanfiction?
  • Or what is the scene/plot of your fanfiction?

 

Friday’s Class (7/17):

Topic: Discussion of FanFiction, what is good and what bad?

Workshop: Editing Video

IMPORTANT VIDEO!! HOW TO EXPORT!

 

Homework:

Feeder 3: Complete Audio Recording of your Video Project by 11:59pm Sunday (7/19). DropBox-Submit Feeder 3 Here

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Week 5: Video Projects (7/20-7/24)

Monday’s Class (7/20):

Topic: The Video Essay

Homework:

  1. Download: Camtasia(https://www.techsmith.com/video-editor.html) for our Workshop tomorrow. You can use the trial, you DO NOT need to buy it. Or if you would like to use a different screen capture software, you can use that instead.
  2. Complete Rough Draft of Video

Tuesday’s Class (7/21):

Topic: How to screen capture

Secondary Option: Zoom

 

Watch:

Upload Video Draft here by 11pm. (make sure you clicked on my invitation in the beginning of the term):

https://duke.box.com/s/oayhmxqn4387n3hae7a02mh622v33sn2

 

Homework:

  1. Respond to at least one video project using rubric *CLICK HERE
  2. Post any questions to Forums

 

Wednesday’s Class (7/22):

Topic: Video Workshop

  1. Review Assignments: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lXwud2ekS1z17zg8IbREiCozfoP_HoVLt2QGawtMaMo/edit?usp=sharing
  2. Find your Peer’s Video here: https://duke.box.com/s/oayhmxqn4387n3hae7a02mh622v33sn2
  3. Respond using screen capture according to this rubric *CLICK HERE
  4. Upload Screen capture to this drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZAHGLBr816nTYS6huWWNiVsqRvzp4cl_?usp=sharing
  5. Upload your screen capture by 11:59pm Tonight (Wednesday 7/22)

 

 

Thursday’s Class (7/23): LAST DAY OF CLASS

 

Topic: Final Review and Discussion

DUE TODAY:

  1. Contribute 1 question for final exam: https://engl149summer2020.web.unc.edu/forums/forum/final-exam-questions/
  2. Complete Video Project by the latest 11:59pm Friday (7/24/20): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1m4xJk5bY_SMRsFAFHR8k0gSuLxeOQiAc?usp=sharing

Friday’s Class (7/24): TAKE HOME FINAL EXAM

FINAL EXAM DUE: TUESDAY, 7/28 at 3pm