Those interested in film or video-making engage in progressive video exercises, leading to the completion of a longer project. The concentration is on story structure, organizing the shoot, and editing. Because of time considerations, the student works solely with video equipment. Although a student may complete an original full-length video, the emphasis is on shorter works. Documentaries are preferred to narrative works.
Most students write analytically on some aspect of film making or history.
Plans which are wholly critical are possible, as are cross-disciplinary Plans with history, dance, theater, sociology, photography or, indeed, any area of the curriculum. Geoffry Brown , who is semi-retired, does not work with students on Plan. A journal and critical analysis on the video-making process. A study of the films of Jim Jarmush, Werner Herzog, and Wim Wenders. A broad-based liberal arts education emphasizing the history and historiography of Britain and Ireland.