March 1 – Introduction in-class – meet via Zoom, but at 3pm we will come to Axinn doors (on Admissions side of building) to get important equipment

• Do Video Commentary post
• Choose 2 different options for your chosen critical object (film, TV show, webseries, etc.) – if possible, have digital files available or request media to be ripped.
• Read “Has the Video Essay Arrived?” (Monaghan)
• If you do not have experience with Adobe Premiere, start working on the LinkedIn Learning tutorials to help learn the platform.
• Watch “What Makes a Video Essay Great?” by Kevin B. Lee

In-class on Monday, we watched the following videos:

• Matt Zoller Seitz, “The Substance of Style” (alas, no longer online) and “Rushmore“
• Koganada, “What Is Neo-realism?”
• Emma Hampsten, “Women, Intimacy, and Sexual Violence in Hitchcock Films“

March 3 – Assignment #1 Workshop on Zoom.

• Make sure you have chosen media for the exercises on your hard drive ready to go!

February 24, 2pm: we will meet remotely at this Zoom link.

When you get a chance (after reading over the syllabus), please fill out this student questionnaire. Also, please join the class Slack workspace.

Note that the first set of assignments involves working with a film or television episode that will need to be ripped into a digital file – it’s important that students request this media as soon as possible via this form. In thinking about what text to choose, think about a film / TV program that you find interesting that you want to spend many hours exploring videographically. If you’re not sure, you can request more than one to consider.

If you have not done so already, please install Adobe Creative Cloud on your computer following these instructions (it’s free with your Midd ID!) – please do this by Monday’s class: