Grade Cutoffs

The cutoffs for letter grades are:

97 - 100 A+
93 - 96 A
90 - 92 A-
87 - 89 B+
83 - 86 B
80 - 82 B-
77 - 79 C+
73 - 76 C
70 - 72 C-
67 - 60 D+
63 - 66 D
60 - 62 D-
Lower than 60 yields an F.

This Week

Week 16: Dec. 7 and 9 -- Meet in Mac Lab -- On this week, the Final portfolio is due: Students will add to their midterm portfolio for a total of 18 photos. Portfolio will be presented on students’ blog. Students are allowed to reshoot and improve their midterm photos. Final portfolio will include portraits, features, and documentary project presentation along with night shots, light, composition, illustration, name, and students’ choices. There should be links to video projects, too. View documentary projects, popcorn will be provided. We will work our way down the class list in alphabetical order by last name.

I'm bringing popcorn. 


Here is the class list, in order, as far as I can tell: 


Grace Allison
Margaret Bakle
Kevin Ho
Emilie Hocharoen
Greg Miller
Ed Mitchell 
Jonathan Nondorf
Jacob Penner
Eric Sarla 
Anthony Solis
Shanecia Spearman
Shaun Spreen
Kyle Steury
Bree Thomas

At, let's say, 5 minutes per student, the total review time for our class comes to one hour and fifteen minutes. Since you are in groups, it could actually take much less time. In other words, if everyone comes on Tuesday, we won't have any video watching to do on Thursday, so you could all use that time to work on your final portfolios.

You Are What You Eat

This project is an interesting meditation on hunger.

Sick Today

I hope that at least one of you that knew the door code could let the rest of you into the lab today. I am not well, so had to miss class. I'm sorry that there wasn't any notice. I hope to see you all on Thursday.

Great Project with Details

Everyone should definitely look at this.

Scraps and Leftovers

I know it's before Thanksgiving, but I wanted to point you to some scraps and leftovers I have not shared yet on this blog.

- Great article about The Future
- Three Documentary Films to Watch

Still Images and Premiere Pro

There is a lot of good info for this here from Adobe.

In this case, our video images are 640 x 480 pixels. How do I know?

I select a video clip on the timeline, and go to File> Get Properties For > Selection (or hit shift-command-H) and see my Properties.

So, if I'm making slides in Photoshop, or resizing them, I know the exact pixel dimensions to use.