Advanced Video Production

Catalog description

Advanced Video emphasizes students' evolution as video producers and the development of the directorial "voice". This course concentrates more on ideas, conceptual issues and storytelling than on technical instruction. A considerable amount of time is spent screening, discussing and analyzing works by outside directors. Video will be examined as a distinct medium with its own history, course of development, and aesthetics. Contemporary trends in independent video production are explored, the relationship of form to content is discussed and issues of genre, ethics, journalism and narrative are explored. Each student will produce several exercises designed to explore these issues as well as an independent final project.