Course is organized around the design and development of individual or group documentary projects in selected media. Students view a variety of films, and are introduced to fundamental issues and applications of film theory. Emphasizes the development of critical and analytic skills. Through their research-production projects, students learn to work with more advanced visual and organizational concepts. Legal and ethical issues involved in media production are considered.
Students present ongoing work and final projects in either an on-line or broadcast venue.
This class will explore the many ways that advertising interacts in our culture -economically, politically, socially and individually, and how that interaction has changed over time. The class will investigate how advertising acts as a form of communication in our culture by focusing on not only the production of advertising, but its ideologies and influences. This class will introduce students to a variety of issues, theories, and research findings regarding children and media. This course will examine important films from the Sixties, including both Hollywood and independent films in both fiction and documentary modes. Using a variety of perspectives and models of analysis, it will study the historical, social, and institutional context which spawned the films, the textual features which made them significant, and the social, politicial, and ideological implications of their modes of representation.