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FILM 456 The Video Essay Units: 3.00
This course will introduce students to the "Video Essay", a form of film and media study which combines textual or language based elements of conventional scholarly analysis with relevant audio-visual materials. Student video essay productions will use the essential component parts of media work directly in the analytical and production process.
Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 48 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze traditional text-based essay writing methods of analysis with the direct application to the production of audio and visual materials.
- Contextualize the Video Essay as a mode of historical and critical understanding.
- Convey factual information and scholarly opinion on the function of the Video Essay.
- Demonstrate ability to produce critically and theoretically informed works through the Video Essay.
- Interpret Video Essay themes, narratives and imagery in relation to specific technological, social and ideological contexts.