Media Construction (190-0-20)
Instructors
Erik Steven Gernand
Meeting Info
Louis Hall 119: Tues, Thurs 1:00PM - 2:50PM
Overview of class
Working in concert with analysis practices studied in RTVF 220, this course will introduce fundamentals of collaboration among artists working in different cinematic crafts over a series of projects that build skills for acquisition and post-production for television, film and interactive media. Through lectures, labs and individual and group assignments, all students will develop basic skills for work in audiovisual media (cinematography, sound, editing, and screen performance). We will use the experience of audiovisual production to interrogate contemporary artistic and industrial practices and processes (including how they are affected by race, gender, and class) in this necessarily collaborative field.
Learning Objectives
Students will work together in artistic teams to develop and enhance skills among those crafts while simultaneously interrogating working structures and industrial norms in terms of the problems of traditional hierarchies and the maintenance of racial, gender and class equity. Techniques gleaned in production will inform conceptual discussions and analysis, enhanced by readings and viewings of audiovisual media. Through cooperative planning and execution of their own work, students will expand their experience and perspectives on working methods and their critical responses to media across various platforms.
Teaching Method
Lecture, discussion, lab, and screenings.
Evaluation Method
Projects will be evaluated on technical achievement (videography, sound, editing, lighting, and production design) as well as their ability to convey narrative.
Class Materials (Required)
Voice & Vision: A Creative Approach to Narrative Filmmaking, 3rd Edition
By: Mick Hurbis-Cherrier
Routledge, 2018
ISBN-13: 978-0415739986
Students must pay a $50 refundable equipment deposit to the equipment cage in Louis Hall by week 2 of the quarter. This is a pre-requisite for checking out the required equipment for class.
USB 3.0 portable external hard drive (at least 500 GB recommended)
Class Materials (Suggested)
The Visual Story, Second Edition: Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV and Digital Media
By: Bruce Block
Focal Press, 2020.
ISBN-13: 978-1138014152
Associated Classes
LAB - Louis Hall 106: Mon 3:00PM - 5:50PM
- Fisk Hall B-1: Mon 3:00PM - 5:50PM
LAB - Fisk Hall B-1: Mon 6:00PM - 8:50PM
- Louis Hall 106: Mon 6:00PM - 8:50PM