Intermediate Video: Narrative
Course Description
Summary
Intermediate Video: Narrative is an in-person course building on the technical skills introduced in Introduction to Video. Students will be expected to produce technical exercises, as well as longer projects of their own design. Technical aspects of the course will be balanced with building on methods of narrative filmmaking and moving image discourses on the theme of narrativity, through readings, screenings, and discussions. In particular, we will look at cinema and contemporary video art that putw conventional storytelling frameworks to use, while expanding out from them in unexpected ways through the means of moving image itself - image, sound, time, and duration. Accordingly, we will pay close attention to the development of image and sound compositional skills, color, value and rhythmic analysis, and complex editing structures and techniques – conventional and experimental. In addition to works for cinematic distribution (single-screen), this class will also look at installation and expanded platforming, online and otherwises
Learning Outcomes
- Build technical media production skills with intermediate-level Cave equipment through in-class workshops and weekly exercises;
- Develop skills in pre-production research and development, as well as post-production editing skills;
- Develop tools for critical analysis of moving image, building aesthetic vocabularies through screenings, discussions, written assignments, and group critique;
- Propose and produce significant moving image projects of their own devising.
Prerequisites
Introducttion to Video or Elements of Video
Please contact the faculty member : jenliu@bennington.edu