Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0137 - Text and Image: Writing for Film

This production/theory course will introduce students to scripts and texts by filmmakers working in essayistic, poetic, fiction, and non-fiction forms, and in hybrid combinations of these forms that do not follow traditional screenwriting paradigms. The course will include workshops in writing voice-over, dialogue, and visual text for the screen, as well as workshops in cinematography, lighting, and editing image to text. We will study works by filmmakers including Shirin Neshat, Pedro Costa, Mona Hatoum, Gaelle Rouard, John Akomfrah, and Pham Ngoc Lan. Students will write and shoot two short projects and one longer project. (Keywords: writing, film, image)

Time and Narrative Lab fee: $75. Students in this course can expect to spend 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time.