作业#1：场景变更
Assignment #1: Variations on a Scene

用三脚架支稳相机，为静物或可重现的场景拍摄照片，练习调整下列参数：
Secure the camera to a tripod and shoot a static image or reproducible scene while altering the following parameters:
A） 焦距：焦点平面，焦距和景深。
Focus: plane of focus; focal length; and depth of field.
B）曝光度：曝光过度／曝光不足／正确曝光；光圈或快门速度优先。
Exposure: over / under / correct; privileging one element in the composition at the expense of another.
C）灯光：高调（明朗，均匀，柔和）；低调（戏剧化）；明暗对比（艺术化，情绪化）
Lighting: high key (broad, even, bland); low-key (dramatic); and chiaroscuro (artistic, moody).
D）声音：分层音效；背景音乐；画外音；内录和枪型麦克录音；静音。
Audio: layered sound effects; background music; voice-over; close-miked vs. shotgun-miked; and silent.

作业#1a：场景变更二：编辑
Assignment #1a: Variations on a Scene Part Two: Editing

用几种不同方式编辑一幕短剧，同时改变如下因素：节奏／速度；视点；色彩；声音。
Edit one short scene in several different ways while altering the following parameters: rhthym / pacing; point of view; color; sound.

作业#2：梦境片段
Assignment #2: Dream sequence

A）从某部已发行的影片中挑选一段梦境片段，并在课堂上展示。
Select a dream sequence from a commercial film to present in class.
B）记录一周的梦境。
Keep a dream journal for one week.
C）为一个两分钟的梦境片段制作一个电影脚本或故事板。
Create a scenario / storyboard for a two-minute dream sequence.
D）拍摄这个片段。
Shoot the sequence.

作业#2a：为梦境片段重新剪辑声音
Assignment #2a: Audio Re-editing of Dream Sequence

作业#3：生活片段 细节叙事 （小说化的现实）
Assignment #3: Slice-of-Life Mini-Narrative (Fictionalizing Reality)

A）拍摄一段发生在现实生活中的真实片段，类似日记或纪录片，可以是一段对话，也可以是两个或多人之间的行为（没有脚本且无意识的拍摄）。如果需要拍摄自然的或无约束的举止，可以使用监视器。
Shoot a live action diary or documentary excerpt - taking place in the everyday world - of an exchange of dialogue or action between two or more people (unscripted and un-self-conscious). Use a surveillance camera if necessary to obtain natural and spontaneous behavior.
B）请原班人马或其他人根据记忆重演这个段子。在此之前你自己或其他人都不要观看录下来的影像。如果能够在同样的地点重演就更完美了，但这不是必须的。
Reenact this scene from memory with the same or random participants. Don't allow either yourself or the other person(s) to watch the recorded material beforehand. Ideally this would take place in the same space as the original scene, but this is not absolutely necessary.
C）为这一幕写个脚本，用作重新布景的依据。
Write a scripted version of the scene to be used as a blueprint for re-staging the scene.

作业#4：解构叙事
Assignment # 4: Deconstructing Narrative

用这种方式可以将情绪由大化小，由小化大。利用灯光，声音，音乐强调，色彩控制和其他特效转换场景正常的预期效果。例如，将音乐换为日常的声音，修改或移除对话（如果有对白），以此缩减一个本该作为转折点或影片结尾的戏剧性情景。（比较：将Martin Arnold最近的好莱坞电影中的所有对话都去掉，只保持视线连戏）或者也可以做完全相反的操作。（比较：重新制作Martin Arnold的《杀死一只知更鸟》。）
Here, the big emotions will be played small and the small emotions played big. Use lighting, sound, music underscoring, color manipulation and other special effects to invert the normative expectations of a scene. For example, a dramatic scene that could be the turning point or denouement in a film can be undercut and reduced to the quotidian with the music replaced by everyday sounds and the dialogue (if any) altered or removed. (Cf. Removal of all dialogue moments from a Hollywood film in Martin Arnold's recent installation leaving only eye line matches). Or the opposite can be achieved (Cf. Remake of To Kill a Mockingbird by Martin Arnold).

作业5#：期末专题
Assignment #5: Final Project

用下面三个主题之一作为出发点制作一个5到8分钟的片段。
Create a 5 to 8 minute piece using one of the following three themes as a take off point.

1）个人目录：重现一件自己生活中的事，配上旁白叙述，然后将其改造。
Self-inventory: Recreate an incident from your life and provide a narrative, then transform it.
2）第二自我（自己的另一面）／虚构角色。
Alter ego / fictional persona.
3）梦境。
Dreams

专题的进展阶段划分如下：
The project development stages will be as follows:
A）形成想法。
Brainstorming ideas.
B）在无意识状态下不加修饰地写出整个想法。
Automatic writing without editing of the whole idea.
C）为期末专题做课堂陈述。
Class presentation of Final Project proposals.
D）故事板：引入三个与自己想法相关的影像片段／照片／剧本。
Storyboard: bring in 3 video clips / photographs / writings that relate to your ideas.
E）对期末短片进行粗剪。
Rough cuts of the final project.
F）最终剪辑。
The final edit.