Curating Shorts Assignment

Your task is to view these 7 videos and curate them in a shorts program.
DUE Friday March 5, 2010

• Come up with a program title
• Write a one paragraph description of the program
• Write 1-2 sentences about each film (you are welcome to google the films and adopt the pre existing copy if it works, otherwise, come up with your own language). The format should be: Film Title Directed by Filmmaker Name (TRT: min:seconds)
• Post your shorts curation on this blog (title Blog: Curating Shorts: title of your program (your name) and don't forget to label it "Assignment: Curating Shorts" in the label tab.
• Include a 2-4 sentence curator statement in the end articulating your intentions.
  

Note: You do not need to embed the videos...it can be more like a list, in the order listed above.

For an example of shorts program write ups, check out the shorts program section of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (they have snazzy titles and good descriptions- you can find the shorts programs by selecting shorts program under the View Events for tab and when you are at that page, you need to click on the films to read their descriptions).

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Videos to curate (Note these are not in order, you decide the order they best flow in). Consider how you are building the program- thematically, topically, by genre, by form, aesthetics, niche or a little of everything.

The Chestnut Tree by Hyun-min Lee (4 min 8 sec)



A Boy's Mouth by PJ Raval (5 min 26 sec)




Slip of the Tongue by Karen Lum (4 min 15 sec)




The Apollos by Nick Parker and Jazmin Jones (5 min 58 sec)




Embrace It by Kirthi Nath (6 min 40 sec)

I Promise Africa by Jerry Henry (2 min 45 sec)



The Midnight Hour by Edgardo Cervano-Soto (8 min)

Assignment: Curating Experience

Due Thursday February 4, 2010 (post to this blog spot)
Please be ready to present in class Friday February 5, 2010

When curating, it is important for the programmer to think about the audience and consider what kind of experience the audience will have. Will the audience be a viewer, a participant, somewhere in between? And what role do you take as the programmer- are you a guide, an essayist, a facilitator, a participant? Pay special attention to how you present the curation and in what order you present the elements.

Curate 2 multi-media experiences. Your curation should contain the following 5-6 elements:

• an online (short) video
• an audio element
• an image
• some kind of writing (excerpts are fine)
• hyperlinks to another other websites etc
• your choice/can repeat from above).

Experience ONE: You may curate around a theme, a topic, an idea, an aesthetic, a genre,whatever you want...it is up to you, but curate in a way that we, the audience, can tell.

Experience TWO: Curate another experience, but make the experience site specific (either describe or take a picture of this site). Consider how site specific curation changes the curational approach.

Present the experiences as a blog post on this website and at the end of each experiences write a brief curaters statement about your intention (1-2 short paragraphs max) and choices.