Today we will try to go to 5:00.

1. Circle up to talk about screening next Friday.

2. Tutorial on titles and credits for FCP.

3. Edit until 3:30. During this time, we will be coming around and interviewing you about your remix. At 3:30 whether your remix is done or not, we will begin the compression and upload process.

4. Tutorials on Del.icio.us and Kaltura. What is open source? What is web 2.0? What is participatory culture?

5. Watch Larry Lessig TED Talk on Remix Culture. Discuss.

6. Embed videos into blog from YouTUbe. Final REflections and postings.

7. Take

1. Yesterday was Collective Intelligence Day. Begin by posting to Daily Reflections about what you learned from our fellow FURI members!

2. After you post, Mindy will lead a quick Del.icio.us tutorial and you will then be asked to post the websites or online video urls you showed yesterday to our social bookmarking site - Del.icio.us - a living tag cloud of our collective inquiry and intelligence.

3. Then we circle up to talk about the difference between political remix and mashups. Jonathan will show examples posted under Remixes by Others and we will post comments about these and discuss.

4. Then we edit, edit , edit! On Wednesday, we will have a Rough Cut Critique in which you will present your edit and talk about it. Anita will be teaching us tips for public speaking either this afternoon or tomorrow morning. She will then help each of you plan a presentation for your rough cut in which you present your ideas, explain how it is fair use and ask for critical feedback.

There is a lot to do today with the goal of setting up your final cut pro project, laying down the soundtrack and adding images. But please take sometime to blog post a reflection to the following:

1. If you have changed your idea can you explain why and what made you change your mind. What kinds of thoughts are guiding your decisions? If you haven’t changed your original idea, is it working out. What kinds of adjustments are you making? What  is the most important thing you want your remix to  critique or expose?

2. On Monday we will do Collective Intelligence Day. To help you prepare we want to show you how to use a social bookmarking tool called Del.icio.us. Then find some sties that you might share with the group that you can bookmark and tag.

3. Tutorial on United Streaming, Archive.org and Jonathan’s personal collection of videos.

4. Explore and add media using these sites.

5. Final Cut Pro tutorial.

Lastly, we are making a documentary about FURI and we may be coming around and interviewing you while you work today and creating video blog posts out of this. We are really interested in hearing how the process of doing remix makes you think a different or new way.

First post a daily reflection about what we learned yesterday and what you thought about the media conversion and capture tools, as well as Wikipedia Commons and the Creative Commons.

We installed Audio Hijack on all the computers so its a good idea to try to experiment with it before we forget the information.

We will learn Final Cut Pro later but spend at least an hour gathering source images and footage online. Once we begin editing on Final Cut, we will not be able to be online. If you have to go online while editing, then you have quit final cut pro.

Yes - after a lot of listening to other people talk about fair use and remix, we finally get to put our hands on the tools and starting making our own remixes!!! But before you get the first tutorial on getting music tracks into Final Cut Pro, spend about an hour doing the following things.

1. First, if you haven’t already done so, go read the FURI Youth bios for all the participants. Post at least one comment on someone’s bio. If you want to edit your post, log in and hit manage. The list of posts will appear and you can then click on your post and it will open up so you can edit.

2. Write a post under the Category “Daily Reflections” responding to the following:
What have you learned or done in FURI that has impacted or inspired you the most? (Or just write about whatever you want having to do with FURI so far). Reflect on your experience (good or bad).

3. After you publish your post, open up our GoogleMy Map following the link sent to your email. Find your house and change the icon to the crib icon. Then go to Flickr and find a photo if you like and add it to the map (Click html first) by pasting in the embed code. Feel free to add other information to the map such as your school, organizations you belong to, upcoming events or whatever.

4. Find one of the videos you have posted or post a new one and tag it using some of the tag guidelines we talked about yesterday (source material, issue, form, style, target of critique).The way to do this is to LOGIn, hit MANAGE, locate your post and click on it to edit. Now under the post you can add tags. Remember to put commas in between tags!!! Hit save.

5. The rest of the day you will begin editing your first remix!  We have talked a lot in the last two days about remix as critique and as a way to expose a lie or tell the truth. Now you need to do one more post before we start.

Log in to post and hit WRITE. Title the post your name and then First Ideas. The category for this post is OUR REMIXES. In the post answer the following questions:

• What are some songs you have thought about using and would you illustrate the song or critique the song?
• We know that the form we will be using is music video, but what kind of style do you envision? (parody, humor, satire, irony, serious, illustration?)
• With your first music video remix, what are some possible TARGETs for your CRITIQUE?  What lies would you like to expose or truths would you like to tell?
• What possible ISSUES could your music video address?

After you are done publishing this post, take a break. We want everybody’s remix to be as powerful as possible. So when we meet as a group to discuss ideas and you can get any feedback or advice that you want.

THE FAIR USE REMIX INSTITUTE
A project of: OPEN YOUTH NETWORKS
A program of: CHICAGO FILMMAKERS
Instructors: MINDY FABER AND JONATHAN MCINTOSH
Website: www.reminstitute.net

SYLLABUS
JULY 7-18 2008

INDICATORS OF SUCCESS: IMPACT ON YOUTH
I. Increased Understanding and Awareness of fundamental principles of copyright, intellectual property and the Fair Use Doctrine, and how these specifically apply to Video Remix and Youth Communication Rights.
II. Increased knowledge and skills in online video remix creation and sharing.
III. Increased ability to speak confidentially and fluently in public around issues of remix and fair use.
IV. Increased experience and use of web 2.0 applications for social and political networking and information access.
VII. Increased development of leadership skills in community based organizing work using technology.
VIII. Demonstrated ability to quote copyrighted material in order to analyze it, repurpose it and reframe it as a means of critical commentary.

INDICATORS OF SUCCESS: IMPACT ON AUDIENCE
I. Increased public understanding and awareness of: the relationship of remix to youth communication rights; the value of remix as a media literacy tool; the difference between remix and piracy; and the important perspectives and critical analyses of urban youth about issues that impact their lives.

INDICATORS OF SUCCESS: IMPACT ON ISSUES
I. Youth participate in public policy debates on remix as a cultural PRACTICE of youth relevant to their communication and First Amendment rights.
INDICATORS OF SUCCESS IMPACT ON COMMUNITIES
I. FURI participants apply their digital knowledge to community organizational and school-based civic engagement, peer mobilizing and social change efforts.

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
I. What is the difference between remix, political remix and piracy?
II. How does copyright protect us and when does it limit our freedom of speech?
III. What are the ethical as well as legal considerations that should guide our production process?
IV. What are the dominant narratives about youth and how can we use remix to rupture and transform those narratives?
V. Is remix an important cultural right for youth and if so, should youth be part of the policy debates around fair and flexible copyright and filtering laws?
VI. How does the process of producing remix impact your learning, critical thinking and political consciousness?

DAY ONE:
Goals: DEFINING OUR COLLECTIVE INQUIRY
1. Who are we, why are we here and what do we each bring to this enterprise? (PhotoTag and Blogging)
2. Why copyright, remix and fair use matters to youth? (Discussion)
3. Guest speaker: Gordon Quinn: How Copyright laws both protect and limit artists’ rights.
4. Assignment: Read Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video (handout)

DAY TWO:
Goals: WHAT ARE THE BEST PRACTICES IN FAIR USE FOR REMIX
1. Posting remixes to blog and tag sites (Deli.cio.us)
2. Present examples and group tag them according to style, content, form and genre.
3. Group Read and discussion of reading.
4. Break into groups to define questions for Pat.
5. Online Video Skype with Pat Aufderheide
6. End of Day BlogReflectionPost
7. Assignment: Research a song to remix on topics of safety or fear

DAY THREE:
Goals: THE PROCESS/PURPOSE OF REMIX: BEGIN THE THREAT OF YOUTH PROJECT
1. Tutorial: Stages of Production Overview (Identify Problem, Research, Script the Argument, Production, Editing and Distribution)
2. Identify the Problem: Group Concept Map on Youth Culture, media, fear and safety
3. Screen The Internet is a Series of Tubes
Reading: Youth Culture as Terrorist Threat
Screening: The Boston Bomb Scare
Screening: Lawrence Lessig TedTalk on Remix
4. Locate source footage and beats (archive.org, remix America, united streaming, Creative Commons)
5. Blogreflection post

DAY FOUR:
Goals: FROM TEXT TO SUBTEXT: REMIX AS TRANSFORMATION
1. TUTORIAL: How to rip and download media files, set up FCP Project and import files into FCP.
2. Log, name, sort and trim clips. Laydown soundtrack.
3. Transcribe the source footage and create three lyrical phrasings and a chorus
4. Begin laying down images to sound track.
5. Blogreflection post

DAY FIVE:
Goals: POLITICAL HAIKU COMPLETION AND MASHUPS
1. Complete editing. Upload to Blip or YouTube
2. Viewing and Discussion and Blogging
3. The Obstacle Course: A vigorous physical interactive game for identifying obstacles and solutions
4. Weekend Work: Prepare a teach-in about an issue impacting your community for Collective Intelligence Day

DAY SIX:
Goals: COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE DAY
1. What are the dominant narratives and the untold stories about youth and the issues that impact your communities and lives.
2. View: George Bush Doesn’t Like Black People, Reverend Wright remix, Beyond Beats and Rhymes and others.
3. Conceptualization and planning of final project
4. Blogging

DAYS SEVEN, EIGHT, NINE AND TEN:
1. View the various genres and techniques of remix for inspiration.
2. Conceptualize and script final projects
3. Work in progress peer critiques
4. Tutorials on Kaltura, Remix America final cut prop advanced techniques (green screen, compositing, superimposition, filters and split screen)
5. Planning future screenings and advocacy