FALL 2024 Assignments
updated Nov 13

Checklist for FALL 2024:
  • Website organized and published - place a title above each project and a 200 word description under each project.
  • Partner Podcast - Demtech Issues - as player on your home page
  • Future Focus 1 - AI Group Chats Podcast - as player on your page
  • Zine - Podcast - A page dedicated to he process of creating the zine. Show early images of drafts, describe the process and have a link to final pdf or display it on the page.
  • AI Experimental Media Project
  • Edit the AI Experimental Critique session video
  • Class reel project at top of home page
MAX is Dec 10th 11am Please have your portfolio complete for display. Room W216
  • Assignment 1 - Aug 28 - Make a portfolio site for this class work. Use the web builder of your choice.​ Weebly.com wix.com and adobe express are good options.

  • Assignment 2 - Sep 4 - 11 - Partner Podcast

  • Assignment 3 - Sep 18 -  'zine research and production - on this page post a gallery of images of the zines we saw at the exhibit. Post the proposal for the content of your own personal zine. Post a gallery of your work in progress pages. Post a gallery of your final pages, Export the pages as jpgs from your design app. Finally, write a description of your creative process and how you chose your topic.

  • Assignment 4 - FUTURE FOCUS -  Oct 9 -  AI team Presentation. post your completed video to your site with a description of what the video is about and what you learned from the process.

  • Assignment 5 -  Oct 30 - Nov 13  AI Tools - Using generative AI tools, create an artistic media artifact or your own design. You must use a generative audio/music app, video or stills and a 3rd (or more) app of your choice. The length should be between 2-3 minutes of runtime.  You will explain your video in the podcast suite on Nov 6.
    Link to resources - https://www.pinterest.com/102shu/001-ai-art/ and https://www.futuretools.io/​
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  • Assignment 6  Nov 13 - Dec 10 - Class reel. In this collaborative effort you and your classmates will create a (5 minute max) video that details all of the projects and processes we covered this semester. Divide the labor fairly. We will discuss all of the elements in class. 
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  • THE MAX - Dec 10 11am-12:30 Your class will display all of your work in W216. The class reel should be playing on the front monitor and all of your personal portfolios should be displayed on the desktops.
Week 1 - Intro to class
Create website
post link to class spreadsheet
See past student works (link above)

Assignment 1
  • Intro podcast / shoot / edit / post to your site
  • Here is the link to the video downloads 
Homework
  • Come in with a list of 3 real-world issues you'd like to report on. These issues should be related to digital tech and social media. 
  • Bring one article for each topic and have a short summary ready to read to camera on each topic.
Assignment 2 -  What's Your Issue?
Magazine production
  • Please use this document for planning and update it with your proposals for next week.  Click Here
  • My pinterest archives of articles related to your topics are now in the document
  • Remember to keep a folder or bookmark all of the links you used in your research.

  • Our agreement:
  • By Sept 11 we will have a written proposal for the articles going into the magazine.
  • We have volunteered our services in several categories for the tasks needed to produce the magazine and the companion TV show.  Details in google doc.

  • Feel free to send any questions but more importantly communicate with each other on the process. Don't wait until Tuesday!
  • I just started a discussion thread in the class blackboard page.​
September 18 2024
We did three things in class today.
  • We went to the podcast suite and shot three episodes of our podcast series called where it stands. ​Each student gave a rundown of where their magazine production was and a little description of the thought process.
  • After recording, we went downstairs to the seminar room and created a prototype of our own personal zines. The overwhelming opinion was that individual magazines was the preferred path forward. Please be sure to hang on to those paper prototypes.
  • ​We then discussed the methods of creating the magazine. The most important aspect to keep in mind is no matter what app you're using to lay out your pages, make sure they are eight and a half by 11. They can scale up and scale down from there but that aspect ratio is important.
  • For class next week, Everyone agreed to come in with a PowerPoint presentation with your magazine pages ready to display on a TV screen
  • We will shoot another episode of our where it stands podcast.
  • If you have any questions feel free to email me
​CM224 Democratic Technologies 
with Prof. Gregory J. Golda
Produced for the School of Communication Media and the Arts at Sacred Heart University
Featuring Anna, Alyssa and Caroline
​CM224 Democratic Technologies 
with Prof. Gregory J. Golda
Produced for the School of Communication Media and the Arts at Sacred Heart University
Featuring Olivia Sophie and Sonia
​CM224 Democratic Technologies 
with Prof. Gregory J. Golda
Produced for the School of Communication Media and the Arts at Sacred Heart University
Featuring Alexis, Stephen and Sabrina

The AI Art Project

Part 1 - The AI art project asks students to explore the newest AI production tools and create a 2 to 3 minute project of their own design. Using these tools, you'll generate script ideas, dialogue, AI, avatars, images, video, and any other elements you might find of interest. In class. Interest. In class. We will look at your project and discuss the difficulties and lessons learned from using AI tools.

Part 2 - After discussing your results, we will take all the video clips of the projects and your introductions and reactions and each student in class will create their own edited video package on the project.
  • The links to the resources have been emailed to you.
    You do not have to show every single second of every single clip.
    Use your best judgment on how to edit things down to the minimum that's needed.
    You don't have to show the entire ai project if it's repetitive. Just pick the best segments.
  • Please have that edited and posted to your portfolio for November 13th.
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Assignment 6 - The MAX
This semester the Max is Dec 10 11am to 12:15 in the Martire SCMA office Suite.