Media

Code:

M201

Acronym:

M

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Design

Instance: 2019/2020 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Design
Course/CS Responsible:	Communication Design

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
DC	59	Plano Oficial do ano letivo 2017	2	-	6	60	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

* To provide an introduction to a study and ecology of media, exploring digital photographic image, audio and video.

* To understand and to problematize the transforming role of media along the process of communication;

* To understand and to problematize the role of the physical apparatus within the process of experiencing media, questioning its formal, operative, and aesthetic features.

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of the semester the students will have accomplished an informal contact with digital image, sound and video, a study that will be further developed in subsequent course units of a more specific nature.

* Fundamental understanding of the formal traits of the photographic digital image, audio and video, taking into account their sociocultural manifestations;

* Fundamental understanding of the audiovisual contract;

* Fundamental understanding the relationship between these media (audio and image) and the physical apparatuses that support them;

* Development of generic technical skills for recording, producing and editing, sequencing and sampling image and sound.

Working method

Presencial

Program

The program of Media class is distributed into three modules. Focusing on the production and manipulation of sound and image, the following analog and digital media will be introduced: 1)  Photography, 2) Audio, 3) Video. Students will produce practical exercises of an experimental nature corresponding to each class module, regarding the specificities and characteristics of each media and the respective apparatuses they depend on.

Mandatory literature

Belting, Hans; Antropologia da Imagem: para uma ciência da imagem, KKYM+EAUM, 2014
Chion, Michel; A Audiovisão: som e imagem no cinema, Texto & Grafia, 2011
McLuhan Marshall; The medium is the massage
Schafer, R. Murray; The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World, Destiny Books, 1999
Truax, Barry (ed); Handbook For Acoustic Ecology, Simon Fraser University/ARC Publications, 1978
Voegeling, Salomé; Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards A Philosophy Of Sound Art, Continuum, 2011

Complementary Bibliography

Augoyard, Jean-François/Torgue, Henry; Sonic Experience: A Guide For Everyday Sounds, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011
Carvalhais, Miguel, and Pedro Tudela (editors); Cochlear Poetics: Writings on Music and Sound Arts, 1 ed. Vol. 2, Mono. Porto, Portugal: NAi / i2ADS / FBA.UP, 2014. ISBN: 978-989-98745-0-3
Collins, Nicolas; Handmade Electronic Music: The Art Of Hardware Hacking, Routledge, 2009
David Pogue; Digital Photography The Missing Manual, O'Reilly Media, 2009
Everest, Alton F. and Ken C. Pohlmann; Master Handbook of Acoustics, McGraw-Hill, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-07-160333-1
Ferrington, Gary; On A Clear Day I Can Hear Forever (At http://dreamsteep.com/writing/media-arts-production/86-on-a-clear-day-i-can-hear-forever.html.)
Oliveros, Pauline; Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice, iUniverse, 2005. ISBN: 0-595-34365-1
Schafer, R. Murray; A Sound Education: 100 Exercises in Listening and Soundmaking, Arcana Editions, 1992. ISBN: 1-895127-15-7
Schafer, R. Murray; A Sound Education: 100 Exercises in Listening and Soundmaking, Arcana Editions, 1992
Schaeffer, Pierre; Acousmatics
Truax, Barry; Soundscape Composition as Global Music, Sound Escape Conference: An International Conference on Acoustic Ecology, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, 2000 (At http://www.sfu.ca/~truax/soundescape.html.)
Sonnenschein, David; Sound Design: The Expressive Power of Music, Voice and Sound Effects in Cinema, Michael Wiese Productions, 2001. ISBN: 0-941188-26-4

Teaching methods and learning activities

Presentation, analysis and discussion of relevant materials in order to establish a permanent discussion forum within the workgroup.

The classroom will be organized according to a laboratorial structure for the development of design projects. Thereby, will be set in place the idea of the creative lab as a space of experimentation and exploration, where, collectively, students will develop class projects in order to implement scientific contents and consolidate technical skills.

Software

Adobe Audition
Audacity
Adobe Premiere

keywords

Humanities > Arts > Visual arts > Photography
Humanities > Arts > Visual arts > Film studies

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	10,00
Trabalho laboratorial	10,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	70,00
Trabalho escrito	10,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	40,00
Estudo autónomo	10,00
Frequência das aulas	60,00
Trabalho laboratorial	27,00
Trabalho escrito	25,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

* Mandatory attendance of 75% of classes.

* Mandatory attendence of all the theorectical and practical works planned for each of the media, within the deadlines defined.

(obs) the teacher reserve the right to differentiate the classification of students from the same group, depending on the factual perception of the effort developed by each element.

Calculation formula of final grade

* The final grades will be calculated from the mean average of every project evaluation, its articulation with a qualitative evaluation of the students' attendance and contributions in class and in all the remaining curricular activities, and the final written work;

* Non delivered projects will be scored with a 0 (zero);

* Projects that are not duly monitored won't be evaluated;

* Projects delivered beyond the established deadlines will be penalized in its score by 25%.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Do not apply.

Internship work/project

Do not apply.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Do not apply.

Classification improvement

Only by frequenting classes in the following year.