Principles of Video and Film

Catalog description

Principles of Video and Film explores cinematic principles, production techniques, aesthetics and genres of filmmaking and visual story telling. The course advances particular attention on styles, techniques utilized in Film, Television, and Commercial Productions with focus on theoretical concepts and practical applications utilized in different approaches to these visual art forms. Students analyze impacts of social and cultural changes upon Film, Television, and Commercial products, in a historical and contemporary context. Different multi-cultural visual pieces spanning the range of realism to formalism are explored using in-class screenings and examples.