200. Introduction to Film, Video and Television Production. (3). (CE). Laboratory
fee ($50) required.
This course will provide students with a basic introduction
to hands-on production in film, video, and television. Pre-production, production, and post-production (from basic script form to directing
to editing) are all covered, and the differences as well as the
similarities of these three related media are explored. Cost:1
WL:2 (Ching, Rayher, Sarris)
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230. Introduction to the
Moving Image. (4). (HU). Laboratory fee ($50) required.
An introduction to the language, structure, narrative, and theoretical assumptions that are expressed in film (from the silent-era
to the present), television, video art, and new moving image technologies.
The aesthetics of these media are examined in social and historical
context and with attention to their interrelation. Cost:2
WL:1 (Beaver)
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300. Filmmaking I. Film-Video
200. (3). (Excl). Laboratory fee required.
This is the introductory 16mm motion picture production course.
This laboratory-workshop course is designed to give students a
solid understanding of how film technique can be used to communicate
ideas in narrative, documentary, and experimental expression.
Working in small groups, students script, shoot, and edit exercises
build around these three types of film. In creating their short
motion pictures, students master master-shot/coverage procedures, screen direction and continuity, and artificial and available
light shooting techniques. Lectures and exercise critiques engage
students in theoretical/aesthetic discussions of the relationship
between film idea and film form. Evaluation: production assignments, midterm test, final project. Text: Pincus and Ascher, Filmmaker's
Handbook. Cost:4
WL:2 (Rayher)
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301. Video Art I. Film-Video
200. (3). (Excl). Laboratory fee required.
This course is designed to introduce students to the terminology, aesthetics, and methods of single-camera video production. Using
Super-VHS video equipment, students will learn the techniques
of single-camera production, including scripting, directing, shooting, and editing. Students work in small groups to design and produce
video projects in a variety of styles such as short narrative
and experimental documentary. Evaluation will be based on production
projects and scripts, production journals, and participation in
class discussion and critique. This course is designed to teach
students to analyze the relationship between technique and content
in video production and to allow students to explore the creative
potential of the video medium. Limited to 20 students, with preference
given to film and video concentrators. Cost:1
WL:2 (Ching, Sarris)
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302. Television Studio I.
Film-Video 200. No credit granted to those who have
completed or are enrolled in Comm. 421. (3). (Excl). Laboratory
fee ($35) required.
This course is designed to introduce students to the terminology, aesthetics, and methods of multi-camera television studio production.
Students will learn the techniques of multi-camera production, including scripting, directing, and practical operation of studio
equipment and will gain hands-on experience in all studio crew
positions. Students will be assigned a series of directing exercises
with increasing complexity and will learn to direct various types
of studio productions. Evaluation is based on completion of these
studio projects, participation in studio and class critiques, short diagnostic quizzes, and one short paper. The goal of this
course is to teach students to analyze the relationship between
technique and content in the shaping of television programs. The
course will meet in LS&A Television Studio, located at 400
Fourth Street. Students should plan their schedules to allow for
travel time. Cost:1
WL:2 (Sarris)
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340. Writing Film Criticism.
F/V 230 or 236. (3). (HU). Laboratory fee ($20) required.
Section 001. For Winter Term, 1998, this section is offered
jointly with RC Humanities 319.001
(H. Cohen)
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360. The History of World
Film. (3). (HU). Laboratory fee ($35) required.
This course is required for concentrators in the Program
in Film and Video Studies, but is open to all students. The course
examines the rich contribution of nations other than the United
States to world cinema, understanding these films both as responses
to the dominant American film industry and as unique expressions
of their own national cultures. The course will also discuss the
influences of these national cinemas on one another as well as
on American film. By focusing on a series of classic films, the
class will examine German Expressionism, Soviet Cinema, French
Poetic Realism, Italian Neorealism, the French New Wave, post-war
Japanese cinema, as well as the cinemas of Spain, India, and Eastern
Europe. Students will write midterm and endterm papers of about
eight pages each and take a midterm and final examination. Cost:3 WL:1 (Konigsberg)
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365. Race and Ethnicity
in Contemporary American Television. F/V 230 or 236.
(3). (HU). (This course meets the Race and Ethnicity Requirement).
Laboratory fee ($35) required.
Since television is the major source of news and entertainment
for many Americans, it plays a key role in constructing representations
of race and ethnicity in our culture. This course analyzes how
racial and ethnic differences are are addressed in a variety of
television contexts, including sit-coms, talk shows, prime-time
dramas, music videos, and news. We will discuss programs such
as iAmos and Andy, American Bandstand, All in the Family, I Spy, The Cosby Show, Oprah Winfrey, NYPD Blue, and Keenan Ivory
Wayans as cultural texts that struggle to "make sense"
of the social changes of recent decades. Readings will be drawn
from both popular and academic sources (John Fiske, bell hooks, Herman Gray) and will examine how discourses on race and ethnicity
intersect with issues of class, gender, and national identity.
(Ohmer)
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400. Filmmaking II. Film-Video
300 or equivalent experience in filmmaking and permission of instructor.
(3). (Excl). Laboratory fee required.
This is an advanced 16mm motion picture production course.
The primary goal of this course is to familiarize students with
dramatic film production from interpreting the screenplay through
shooting, editing, and post-production. The relationship of these
activities to aesthetic development being the fundament of the
course, and the basis of its connection to film studies. You will
have access to a state-of-the-art Panaflex 16mm camera in addition
to standard production equipment. Students work in small groups
to produce a substantial sync-sound final project, as well as
participating in a large in-class dramatic production (collaboration
with Theater and Drama students). Evaluation: participation in
in-class projects, production assignments, final project. Text:
Pincus and Ascher, Filmmaker's Handbook. Cost:4
WL:2 (Rayher)
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401. Video Art II. Film-Video
301 or equivalent experience with video production and permission
of instructor. (3). (Excl). Laboratory fee required.
This course covers various production strategies and concerns:
building rhythm and structure, creative use of sound and its relationship
to image, realizing non-linear narrative, experimental use of
lighting, conceiving and distributing video in ways other than
single-channel, and socio-political issues around representation.
It aims to help students realize their own voices in independent
videomaking within the historical context of Video Art. A/B roll
editing with digital effects and various computer editing software
including the AVID and Premiere will be covered.
Evaluation is based on projects, reading and writing assignment, and class participation. Cost:2
WL:2 (Ching)
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402. Television Studio II.
F/V 302. (3). (Excl). Laboratory fee ($35) required.
This course is an advanced course in multi-camera television
production and a continuation of FV 302. Students will apply concepts
developed in FV 302 to produce and direct advanced studio productions, including collaborative projects with acting students from the
Department of Theater. Evaluation is based on completion of projects, participation in studio and class critique, and short papers.
The course will continue to explore the relationship between technique
and content in the creation of media programs and will give students the opportunity to develop their own creative projects in the
studio context. The course will meet in the LS&A Television
Studio, located at 400 Fourth St. Cost:1
WL:2 (Sarris)
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405. Computer Animation
I. Film-Video 200. (3). (Excl). Laboratory fee required.
This animation course will investigate and exercise the basic
concepts of Macromedia Director. It is a hands-on beginning-level
course that will explore the mechanics of computer-generated 2-D
animation, including the integration of sound, motion, and basic
interactive programming. Fundamentals of the perception of motion
over time, rotoscoping, storyboarding, and final output options
of finished animations. Students should have a basic working knowledge
of Macintosh illustration and paint programs. Must have permission
of instructor. Cost:2
WL:2 (Farley)
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406. Computer Animation
II. Film-Video 405 or equivalent experience with
video production, and permission of instructor. (3). (Excl). Laboratory
fee required.
This advanced class explores the theories and applications
of interactive animation design. Individual student projects are
developed using Macromedia Director and Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia
SoundEdit 16. Graphics, sound, and interactivity are utilized
to create highly conceptual non-linear environments. Through critical
analysis of both student assignments, and professional works, we will investigate the successes and failures of various types
of interactivity to communicate with an audience. Cost:2
WL:2 (Kinnen)
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410. Screenwriting II. F/V
310. (3). (Excl). Laboratory fee ($35) required. May be repeated
for a total of six credits.
Students will learn to cast a critical eye on their own first
drafts by analyzing other class members' screenplays. Working
in teams, students will break down screenplays in terms of structure, story logic, character development, character relationships, dialogue, visuals, and theme. Using feedback from their fellow students
and instructor, students will strive to fix the problems in their
own individual screenplays. A major rewrite and polish will be
required. Please note: A maximum of twenty students will be admitted
to this course. Students will be selected based on the quality
of their original screenplays and/or their Screenwriting I instructor's
recommendation. Other factors being equal, preference will be
given to senior concentrators in film and video. (Burnstein)
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412/English 412. Major Directors.
(3). (HU). Laboratory fee ($35) required. May be
repeated for a total of nine credits.
See English 412. (Bauland)
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414. Film Theory and Criticism.
(3). (Excl). Laboratory fee ($35) required.
This is primarily a reading course designed to provide the
student with an overview of how people through the twentieth century
have thought about film. Theories of cinema offer a philosophical
approach to understanding film as an art form. Starting with Hugo
Munsterberg and Vachel Lindsay in the 1910s, students will read
a wide range of theoretical approaches as they proceed through this 100 year history. We will compare and contrast the viewpoints
of influential thinkers on film such as Eisenstein and Bazin, as well as analyze recent commentary that takes up questions regarding
film as a representation of culture, as a medium for narrating
stories, as a source of psychological fascination, and as a technologically
unique process. This course is required for concentrators in the
program, but is open to all students with some background in film.
Requirements include several papers and a final exam. Cost:3
WL:1 (Nornes)
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420. Documentary Film. (3).
(Excl). Laboratory fee ($35) required.
The films to be studied in this course are selected from the spectrum of documentary film practice from the 1920s to the
present. We will concentrate on specific topics as well as an
historical overview. Considering the developing and shifting conception
of documentary film practice, social issues, political and propagandistic
values, and documenting the "Other," as well as claims
to veracity and objectivity, will be treated within an analytical
framework. Different approaches to production – particularly within the burgeoning ethnographic and women's film practices – will
also be examined. Written assignments and term papers will be
required. Cost:1
WL:1 (Ukadike)
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440/CAAS 440. African Cinema.
(3). (Excl). Laboratory fee ($35) required.
See Afroamerican and African
Studies 440. (Ukadike)
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441. National Cinemas. F/V
360. (3). (Excl). Laboratory fee ($50) required. May be repeated
for a total of six credits.
Section 001 – The New German Cinema. For Winter Term, 1998, this section is offered jointly with German
331.001. (Van Moltke)
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451/Amer. Cult. 490. American
Film Genres. Junior standing. (4). (HU). Laboratory
fee ($35) required.
See American Culture 490.
(De La Vega-Hurtado)
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455. Topics in Film Studies.
(3). (Excl). Laboratory fee ($35) required. May be
repeated for a total of nine credits.
Section 001 – Dialogue of Violence: Cinema in WWII's Pacific Theater.
For Winter Term, 1998, this section is offered jointly with Asian Studies 440.001. (Nornes)
Section 002 – Film Stardom. (Van Moltke)
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460. Technology and the
Moving Image. Film-Video 230 or 236. (3). (Excl).
Laboratory fee ($35) required.
This course explores the various ways in which technology
has shaped the art forms of the moving image. The course traces the impact of such innovations as sound, color, and wide screen
on the history of the motion picture, virtual reality, and multi-media
performances. As well as studying the aesthetics of technology, this class examines the ways in which technology through art influences
individual psychology and society at large. Cost:2
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