Media Construction (190-0-21)

Instructors

Paloma Martinez

Meeting Info

Louis Hall 119: Tues, Thurs 11:00AM - 12:50PM

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 and film. Through lectures, labs and individual and group assignments, all students will develop basic skills for work in audiovisual media (cinematography, sound, and editing). 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.

Evaluation Method

Attendance, group work, lab, presentations, project, final

Class Materials (Required)

Voice and Vision: A Creative Approach to Narrative Filmmaking (978-0415739986 Edition), The Visual Story: Creating the Visual Structure of Film (978-1138014152), Software: Adobe Premiere Pro,

Class Notes

Films will be shown in class and linked on Canvas

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