Video Summary of visual acoustic

VIDEO SUMMARY Spring 2015
Due Dates: As listed on the syllabus, due at the beginning of class.
Grade percentage: There will be five Video Summaries, each worth 3 points or 3% of your grade (total = 15%) Format: Essay, single-spaced, 1” margins.
SUMMARY
As noted on the course syllabus, these video summaries are very simple in concept — 1) they help you understand the visual materials that we do not have time to screen in class, 2) they help you understand the various utopian/dystopian models and their effects in the world. All you have to do is watch the video and answer the attached questions.
FORMAT
Place your name at the top of the paper.
1. Provide the title of the video.
2. Answer the questions for each video. The questions are attached.
• answer in complete sentences, single spaced, with 1” margins. • be thorough, but keep your answers brief and “too the point.” • 1-2 sentences is sufficient for each question.
3. Your answers should be one or two pages maximum.
4. Make sure you proofread; the first draft is never a masterpiece! (First drafts are usually C, D, or F papers.)
GRADING
Your Video Summary will be evaluated on how well you follow the steps above. When I grade the summaries, I am will be looking to see that you answered the questions clearly and succinctly.
GRADING RUBRIC
Each summary is worth a maximum of three points; five summaries equals 30 points maximum (20% of your grade)
3 points = close to perfect in written or visual/verbal content; questions answered thoroughly and with insight. 2.5 = good content; coherent, with a few minor flaws.
2 = average or poor in most respects; lacking depth or thoroughness; lacking understanding.
1 = poor or failing in most respects; no insights; not much effort displayed; lack of effort (or last minute rush).

Movie title : Visual Acoustics (Eric Bricker 2010) 78 minutes Narrated by Dustin Hoffman
Date Due: February 10
1. Why is Julius Shulman considered as a key visual artist of the 20th century?
2. How did the photographs and houses illustrate “modernism” and the “new world” utopias of the 1950s and1960s? Provide examples.
3. How were these housing styles promoted to average Americans in the mass media?
• Why are the images and design of the Case Study House #22 so famed and important? • Why is the Malin/Chemosphere house important?
4. What made all these modern houses unprecedented, unique, radical, and futuristic?
5. What were the modern/design ideas of Frank Lloyd Wright and John Lautner?
• What was the role of their designs with regard to nature and the landscape?
6. When did “postmodern” architecture emerge and how was it different than modern architecture?
7. How did these houses reflect the “social utopia” and the “personal utopia”?
8. What has happened to these houses 50-60 years later?