Film Studies 597V - ST- Videographic Essay

What is possible when the mode of film scholarship departs from the printed word and inhabits the form of the media it examines? As the media environment evolves, critical engagements with film are emerging in the digital landscape, with the videographic essay one of the most prominent. This is a course in planning, scripting, and editing videographic essays in film scholarship. Making a videographic essay is much like making a film, often with similarities to documentary and the essay film. As such, we will engage not only film analysis and film scholarship but also video editing, visual composition, sound design, and other aspects of moving image media. In this class, we examine a wide array of videographic essays and explore the unique analytical and expressive opportunities the medium offers. With this foundation, we develop the critical, creative, and technical skills necessary for making effective video essays addressing films and film theory, directors, genres, national cinemas, and cultural and sociological topics. Open to graduate students and advanced undergraduate students with permission of the instructor. Film Studies Major Through BDIC Category: T, E UMass Amherst Undergraduate Certificate Categories: II, IV, V

Open to graduate students as well as junior and senior Film Study students with permission of the instructor.

What is possible when the mode of film scholarship departs from the printed word and inhabits the form
of the media it examines? As the media environment evolves, critical engagements with film are
emerging in the digital landscape, with the videographic essay one of the most prominent. This is a
course in planning, scripting, and editing videographic essays in film scholarship. Making a videographic
essay is much like making a film, often with similarities to documentary and the essay film. As such, we
will engage not only film analysis and film scholarship but also video editing, visual composition, sound
design, and other aspects of moving image media. In this class, we examine a wide array of videographic
essays and explore the unique analytical and expressive opportunities the medium offers. With this
foundation, we develop the critical, creative, and technical skills necessary for making effective video
essays addressing films and film theory, directors, genres, national cinemas, and cultural and sociological
topics.

Film Studies Major Through BDIC Category: T, E

UMass Amherst Undergraduate Certificate Categories: II, IV, V