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Extra Stuff
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Mediapedia evolved through my teaching in the MA program in Media Studies at The New School, an interesting modern university in New York’s Greenwich Village. Parson’s School of Design is a sister program at The New School, which also has a strong undergraduate program, The Eugene Lange College, and other graduate programs in Social Research, Management & Urban Policy, Drama, Music and Jazz.
Because the book is targeted at general readers, I’ve kept the writing crisp and colloquial and deleted a bunch of items about media production and aesthetics. There were different reasons for cutting them. Some are pretty abstract. Some deal with tangled topics like legal rights and clearances. Some were cut because there wasn’t enough space.
This companion site seems a great backdoor for offering some of the things that proved quite valuable in the classroom. From time to time I will be adding a few more extra items. I’d love feedback on these PDFs – or on topics you think belong here.
- Kit Laybourne
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Budgeting Topograhy & Technique
Most personal media projects are funded by disposable cash or by leveraging a credit card. But when plans get more ambitions, you may want to know how to build a budget. A default budgeting template is included.
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Design Process (THE Design Process)
Here is a full breakout of the multi-step process that professional designers use. This topic is covered very briefly in the Part II Introduction. When lots of folks become involved in your projects, this becomes essential reading.
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Difference between Analog & Digital
A pair of examples try to make very concrete what is often only vaguely understood.
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File Format Grid
One of my oh-so-smart graduate students compiled this comprehsive grid of all file formats you are likely to run into. Dense but handy.
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Giving and Getting Notes
This is not obvious stuff. You can break someone’s heart by giving unscreened feedback. Or you can have your own creative psyche mau-mau-ed by those whose opinions you seek.
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Media Chops Inventory
Here is a questionnaire that I give my students. It helps them gauge their facility among a broad range of media making skills. Valuable as an aid in assessing what is often involved in creative production.
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Scheduling Technique & Template
You can’t start to budget until you have a very locked-down, detailed-to-the-day-if-not-detailed-to-the-hour schedule. These notes will teach you to build a schedule using a standard spreadsheet.
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Studio Drawing Session
I wrote up on-line instructions that attempt duplicate a one hour drawing session that I conduct with charcoal and large sheets of newsprint. You’ll get messy. The lecture reviews some basic ideas and tips about how to draw.
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