This workshop in video production emphasizes the techniques of editing and postproduction skills. Class sessions include screenings of narrative, experimental, and documentary video work, with an eye toward educating students in the history of video as an art form. The course includes weekly production exercises, and all students produce a substantial final project. By permission of the instructor. This course is designed to provide an overview and critique of the development of video as an art form, with examples from documentary, abstract, performance-oriented, and narrative work.
Video art is placed in context in relation to the other arts and broadcast television.
Alternative TV, cable access, and community-based projects are also considered. Class time is divided among screenings, discussion, and student presentations. The student who seeks to finish a project in a digital medium inevitably broaches certain issues. This course is a continuation of Non-Linear Editing, and examines the concerns and concepts specific to digital post production. This class is geared towards junior concentrators in preparation for senior project work in electronic media.