Advanced ETB: Documentary Storytelling

Catalog description

In this course you will be learning strategies of audio and visual storytelling in the service of documenting and sharing the astounding world that surrounds us. You will apply these strategies to produce advanced works of your own. Video production techniques will be covered, although student work will be open to any media and experimental approaches will be encouraged. The course will examine documentary works that utilize film, video, audio, photography, spoken word and object-based practice to convey complicated narratives. "Documentary" does imply non-fiction, although it is not necessarily about "objectivity" either. These works exist in the sticky, often uncomfortable, yet fascinating, relationship that human experience has to reality. Prerequisite: 60-110