Extra Credit Option
A total of three extra credit points may be earned for the entire semester. If you've already earned 3 extra-credit points on exam 1 and/or 2, you are not eligible for the Shot Logger option.
This extra credit option is worth up to three extra credit points, which count toward the semester's total of 100 points. It is due by the Friday of Study Week.
- Install VLC Media Player (or use it on the Communication Reading Room's or Gorgas Library's computers).
- Do not use version 2.1 of VLC for the Shot Logger extra credit!
- Version 2.1 broke a key feature of VLC necessary for Shot Logger! Instead, use an earlier version--available here.
- Select a television program you have access to on DVD or video file (but not an iTunes file; they are protected by DRM).
- Episodes that have already been entered into Shot Logger are not eligible. Please see the list of episodes here:
- If you do not have access to a video, bring a flash drive to Dr. Butler and he will provide an MP4 video file.
- Grab a frame from the start of every shot in your film/program and save it as a JPEG file.
- Make sure that the frame's time code is embedded in the file name. Thus, a file name for The Cosby Show might look something like this:
- Cosbyqq00_10_15qq0000023.jpg (the part of the file name in bold face is the time code)
- More detailed instructions are here:
In order for your frames to earn extra credit you must:
- Create JPEG files with time code in the file's names. This is essential.
- Identify the name of the episode and when it was originally broadcast.
- Burn the frames to a blank CD/DVD or flash drive.
- Submit them either to Dr. Butler's mailbox in the TCF office (room 484 Phifer) or bring them by his office (486C Phifer).
Please let me know if you have any questions.