Week 1 Schedule

September 13 – Introduction in-class

For Thursday:

• Do Video Commentary post
• Choose 2 different options for your chosen critical object (film, TV show, webseries, etc.) and rip or capture the media per these tutorials. For long-form media like a TV series, make sure you have at least 90 minutes 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

  Watch “What Isn’t a Video Essay?” by Grace Lee

In-class on Tuesday, we’ll watch 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“

Sept 15 – Assignment #1 Workshop

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