**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).

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Week 1: Introduction and Theory (6/28-7/2)

Monday’s Class (6/28) Synchronous:

Topic: Introduction to the Class

Class Recording:

https://unc.zoom.us/rec/share/_O3sxV_An1XcQS9mqbogDNqkMubljlWe_tinAn4PpiI30zdDB8PnmwXfTRnxZUR8.bvbinrcYc4zYgYiH

Passcode: 1BlKwJ.#

Homework:

1. Fill out Survey https://unc.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bj6nc1n4v4p8NeJ
2. Read Introduction in Lessig, Lawrence. Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy. Penguin, 2008.

Tuesday’s Class (6/29) Asynchronous:

Topic: What is the difference between Remix/Sample/Adaptation?

Wednesday’s Class (6/30) Asynchronous:

Topic: Death of the Author and Medium is the Message

Watch Lindsay Ellis “Death of the Author”

Watch Nerdwriter1 “The Medium is the Message”

Homework:

1. Find a Youtube thumbnail image and “close read” it in a post. Please include your image in the post (as either a link to the video, the thumbnail image embedded in the post, or a screenshot of the thumbnail in your post). Use this document to help you “close read” the image: https://introtofictionf18.web.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/17149/2018/08/reading-listening-viewing.pdf
2. Make sure you have Adobe Creative Cloud downloaded and at least INDESIGN installed (we will be using this on Thursday).

Thursday’s Class (7/1) Synchronous:

Topic: Creating Your Cover (Mini Project 1)

Recording: https://unc.zoom.us/rec/share/FUdhWnDpNusjmQFKYlJIWDRyYxVhyc1bgEIfmZX1J8ZwBhwlMsJfr4Em3xfxBMRR.Bkiytvik0lLjjQv6

Friday’s Class (7/2) Asynchronous:

Topic: Researching Your Artifact

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Week 2:  Intellectual Property (7/5-7/9)

Monday’s Class (7/5): NO CLASS July 4th Holiday

Tuesday’s Class (7/6) Asynchronous:

Topic: Intellectual Property Rights

Activity: Read Through this document and add an example to the activity at the end.

Homework:

1. Find a case of intellectual property infringement and briefly describe the case in a post on our website.
2. In another post, please respond to Friday’s reading: Benjamin’s statement that “even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be,” or in its “aura.” Benjamin defines the term “aura” of the work of art as “that which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction”. Do you agree or disagree with this assessment of mechanical reproduction? Why or why not?

Wednesday’s Class (7/7) Asynchronous:

Topic: IP and the Internet

1. Follow the link and read the article What is DRM?
2. Follow the link and read the article How Digital Rights Management works
3. Watch Video from Lawrence Lessig discussing DRM:
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwtshgPSnOA&feature=emb_imp_woyt
   • Lawrence Lessig has more videos on TED, which add to the argument about free culture, fair use & DRM (OPTIONAL):    Watch on ted

Homework:

1. Find 7-10 images, videos, or audio to use for your cultural artifact–these can either be about your artifact or supporting media. (Bring these to class on Thursday). **You can switch these out later, I just want you to have some materials to begin storyboarding.
2. Write a post on whether or not you think streaming (or licensing) music/tv/movies has positively impacted DRM, if there is no physical disk, is it easier or harder to copy? Is it no longer important to “own” music/movie/tv? And what impact do you think this has on remix/sampling?

Thursday’s Class (7/8) Synchronous:

Topic: Storyboarding

Recording:

https://unc.zoom.us/rec/share/s2Z4x7VXOlujoXPaZ3qQQun8TQcpWrwtEM9clOtwgMxb24S166ruQGLEtzhFOWHp.f6flBeUDLgsHYfqx

Password: $B2sGA&c

Storyboard Activity: Video-Storyboard

Homework:

1. Fill out your Video-Storyboard Sheet for tomorrow’s workshop, use at least 8 images.
2. Watch Nerdwriter1  Intertextuality**warning: strong language

Friday’s Class (7/9) Asynchronous:

Topic: Mini Project 2 Workshop

Classroom Project:

Click on this link for Peer Review: https://app.eduflow.com/join/ZGFNXA

Upload your storyboard and review other’s work.  Complete by end of the day Friday (7/9).

Homework:

1.Please listen to this Podcast: Reply All, #148 Bedbugs and Aliens
In a method similar to the podcast, choose a Meme that you want to explain.
Explain the meme in a recording (you can use your phone) like you heard on the podcast-it only has to be a few minutes.

Upload your recording to this google drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jSRmC5fvCUQVAf2ugue3mJ_pMfdApviL?usp=sharing

#148 Bedbugs and Aliens | Reply Allhttps://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/kwh23r/148-bedbugs-and-aliens?utm_source=gimletPlayer&utm_medium=copyShare&utm_campaign=gimletPlayer

2. Mini Project 2 Due on Monday at 11:59pm

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Week 3:  Remix/Sampling and the Internet (7/12-7/16)

Monday’s Class (7/12) Synchronous:

Topic: Video Thesis

Recording: https://unc.zoom.us/rec/share/yoq3ji465hWjnlfuzgYx5OwRaZCQFZ8Fxf2N1DJQFSBvLgDI6bRHXTbNCF2_e3SG.UBopKtbH7HE4qUan

Passcode: Tczr6!5@

Homework: Finish Mini Project 2 email it to grantg@live.unc.edu by 11:59pm

Tuesday’s Class (7/13) Asynchronous:

Topic: Remix

Watch: Kirby Ferguson “Everything is a Remix Remastered (2015)

Activity for Class:

Check out: https://www.whosampled.com

Find a song that you are interested and search it on https://www.whosampled.com

Write a post on your song. What makes this song unique and why do you think it uses the sample? What does using that particular sample do?

Post Due by 11:59pm Tuesday (7/13)

Homework:

1. Read Chapter 1 (pages 1-32) in Hutcheon, Linda. A theory of adaptation. Routledge, 2012. Available through UNC Libraries (https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781136210921)
2. Start to write out script for Video (Mini Project 3), get 200 words completed.

Wednesday’s Class (7/14) Asynchronous:

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

Watch the following Videos:

Homework:

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

Thursday’s Class (7/15) Synchronous:

Topic: Term Review and Audio Recording

Activity: Document (https://docs.google.com/document/d/15X3yyupEWYc0TRXXb1u8698K5Hodc9Os8afXzMS45YE/edit?usp=sharing)

Link to Presentation: https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0bGPqb2_4CZspGn_qy5C938AA#7/16-class

Link to class recording (**Missed first half of class, if you need to review anything with me, just email grantg@live.unc.edu): https://unc.zoom.us/rec/share/8tBRKB8Ts5qm6hW3Ik3MZpkQ2j63vkzFt1nQRBmE6iQwN0n6Vgb9BJWYhJ4Qpt6X.ka8siiopXiFLI7Ay

Passcode: $30e^4in

Homework:

1.Record your audio voice over for your video by tomorrow (9am), in preparation for the workshop.

2. Sign up for one slot to discuss your cultural artifact on the class “Podcast”

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K5BS-5nr2t4mK6tKU1iIr7Mti47eGi2eoEEV97GwK8Q/edit?usp=sharing