VSAR
304: Advanced Video Production, Spring 2 0 0 6
Wednesday, 3-8pm, Arts 340
http://www.csusm.edu/diekman/vsar304s06
Instructor: Kristine Diekman
Arts 301
760-750-4188
kdiekman@csusm.edu
www.csusm.edu/diekman
Office hours, Wed. 12noon - 2pm or by appointment
Course description:
In this course, we will explore the theory and practice of video within the
context of art and culture. This advanced video class is designed for students
who can work independently, scheduling time outside of class to make work, present
work in progress in class, and complete research. Class time will be spent screening
work, discussing readings, participating in workshops, working in labs and developing
your technical and conceptual skills. This advanced course assumes a high degree
of participation.
We will study film, video and media installation artists who make work which
addresses various concepts of autobiography, history and memory while utilizing
a mixture of styles combining documentary, personal narrative, appropriated
footage, processed and composited images, poetry, text and sound. We will experiment
with how digital video techniques of editing, compositing and sound design can
enhance meaning within your own work around these issues and stylistic approaches,
while studying these concepts and styles in the work of others. You are encouraged
to us a mixture of styles and structures in this course; found footage, still
photography, animation, image processing, traditional narrative or experimental,
sound design and installation art. Emphasis will be placed on the appropriateness
of these techniques to the content of each project.
Projects:
You are responsible to develop two major video projects, in addition to short
in-class exercises. The requirements for project development and production
include research, reading, screening other media, written project proposals,
written summaries of visiting mediamakers and their work, treatments or scripts,
and storyboards. Presenting work in progress with both projects will be essential
to earning a good grade.
Project #1 The Processed Image: The first project will focus
on shooting, cinematic structures, image processing, and compositing to address
the concepts of the course (autobiography/biography, history and memory).
Project #2 Sound Design: The second project will focus on sound
design as an essential element of cinematic structure, and can be an extension
of the first project.
This semester, we will: