The Still and Moving Image: Digital Photography and Video

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Through screenings, readings, discussion and practical assignments, explores the differences between the still and the moving image coming from the perspective of a still photographer. How does the addition of time, sound and movement affect the way we experience images? How have the histories of photography and cinema overlapped and how are they different? How does the fact that video and film are no longer prohibitively expensive for most people affect the approach that people take to creating videos? How can photographers make engaging video using their photo skills? Looking at practitioners and learning basic video editing tools--as well as various methods for output--students create video and still images with an understanding of the intersections, variations and potential of the similar yet markedly different languages of film, video and still photography.