Videographic Film & Media Studies: Fall 22

FMMC0334, TR 11:00am-12:15pm, Axinn 105

Category: Weekly Schedule

Week 12 / 13

Dec 6 & 8: In-class viewing of final video essays

December 13:

All revised videos and written commentaries due on Tuesday the 13th, posted to students’ portfolio pages!

In addition to the portfolio, please write a brief self-reflection, sent to Jason via email. You should reflect on the course learning goals, considering how you think you met or fell short of these goals. Your reflection will provide the framework for the final conference.

Please make an appointment to meet with Jason to discuss final reflections on the project, the class as a whole, and determine the final grade. Make sure that both the portfolio and self-reflection have been submitted at least 24 hours before the appointment, so that Jason can read/watch them. Meetings must be completed by December 22 and can be done in-person or via Zoom.

Week 8 Schedule

Nov 1 – Share Abstract Trailers

Post Abstract Trailer videos to Google Drive and discuss in class

Nov 3 – Work session

Fayza will be available to assist during class to work on response videos. Please use each other for feedback and assistance as well!

Week 7 Schedule

October 25 – Share Desktop Videos

  • Upload and discuss Exercise #6 – Desktop Videos

October 27 – Discuss Plans for Abstract Trailers & Portfolios

  • Do weekly video commentaries (try to look at desktop documentaries)
  • Plan for Abstract Trailers (due next week) and Portfolios
  • Watch examples of abstract trailers:

Jason Mittell’s trailer for “How Black Lives Matter in The Wire“:

Noah Liebmiller, “Why the Eye?” (from 2017 course):

Nicole Morse, “Some People Like Hearing Sad Things” about Transparent

Elizabeth Alsop, “The Television Will Not Be Summarized” about Twin Peaks: The Return

Week 6 Schedule

October 18 – Share Deformative Videos

  • Export deformative videos & discuss in-class

October 20 – Assignment #6 Workshop – Desktop Video

Watch “Right Now Then Wrong” by Kevin B. Lee

Watch “Watching the Pain of Others” by Chloé Galibert-Laîné  (note: turn on English captions if you don’t speak French…)

Week 5 Schedule

October 11 – Share Multiscreen Videos

  • Export videos to class folder
  • Come to class prepared to discuss role of multiscreen in videographic work
  • In-class viewing: Charlie Shackleton, “Frames and Containers

October 13 – Assignment #5 Workshop: Deformative Double Feature

Week 4 Schedule

October 3 – Share Epigraph Videos

  • Export videos to class folder
  • Come prepared to discuss the role of text on-screen

October 5 – Assignment #4 Workshop – Multiscreen

  • Do weekly video commentary
  • Give feedback to peers on the epigraphs
  • Watch “Honolulu, Mon Amour” and read online commentaries
  • Watch “Magic Mirror Maze”:

Week 3 Schedule

September 27 – Share voiceover videos

  • Export exercise #2 to classes folder
  • Come prepared to talk about voiceover, building on videos you have viewed

September 29 – Assignment #3 workshop – Videographic Epigraph

Explore other videographic epigraphs at this showcase

Week 2 Schedule

September 20:

  • Export Supercut & PechaKucha videos to Exercise #1 folder on Google Drive by class time
  • Come to class with hard drives

September 22 – Assignment #2 workshop run by Fayza

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:

Sept 15Assignment #1 Workshop

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

Week 10 Schedule

April 26 – Videographic Responses

  • Submit videographic response drafts to Google Drive
  • Watch in class

April 28 – Video Essay and/or Video Art

Jen Proctor, “A Movie” (which, as Creekmur discusses, is a remake of the classic found-footage experimental film “A Movie” by Bruce Connor)

Mark Rappaport, “The Empty Screen”

Christian Marclay, “Telephones”

Week 9

November 6 – Behind the Scenes of a Video Essay

  • Continue working on Videographic Response Essays (due 11/13!)

November 8 – Copyright and Fair Use