Trending their fandom’s names on Twitter, funding the big screen adaptation of their favorite shows via Kickstarter, and in some cases, getting out on the streets for physical protests--Media fans and fandoms have become more visible in the digital age. However, fan practices pre-date the widespread use of the internet. This course explores the past and the present of media fandom alongside the ways in which fans have been represented and studied.

Introduction to the principles of motion picture and video post-production process: editing, workflow, and exhibition theories, techniques, and technologies. Topics include: montage theory, American continuity theory, history of editing forms, structural concepts in feature and short films, shot types, sequencing and pacing, the 180 rule, relationships between editing and performance, ethics of manipulation, non-linear editors, digital asset management and organization, post-production workflow, proxy workflows, sound editing, codecs and resolution, delivery and exhibition standards.

This course provides a foundation in the principles, techniques and equipment involved in making short videos, including: development of a viable story idea or concept, aesthetics and mechanics of shooting video, the role of sound and successful audio recording, and the conceptual and technical underpinnings of digital editing. Students make several short pieces through the semester, working towards a longer final piece. Prerequisite: FMS 150 or its equivalent. Enrollment limited to 12. Application and instructor permission required.

Film, a dominant entertainment form in the twentieth century, has faced sweeping changes in the twenty-first. Digital technologies have widely replaced film cameras and projectors, theatrical exhibition continues to decline as audiences watch movies on ever-smaller screens, and the list of other entertainment forms competing for the public’s attention grows longer each year.

Film, a dominant entertainment form in the twentieth century, has faced sweeping changes in the twenty-first. Digital technologies have widely replaced film cameras and projectors, theatrical exhibition continues to decline as audiences watch movies on ever-smaller screens, and the list of other entertainment forms competing for the public’s attention grows longer each year.

This course introduces students to FMS through units that pair scholarly approaches with influential media forms: the Aesthetics of Film, the History of Television, and the Technologies of Digital Media. Through these units, students ask: what human desires animate a relationship with media? For what purposes have people invented and evolved these technologies? How do makers use them, and what are audiences seeking in them? These questions help students see the fundamental forces that unite film, television, and digital media alongside the elements that distinguish them from each other.

This course introduces students to FMS through units that pair scholarly approaches with influential media forms: the Aesthetics of Film, the History of Television, and the Technologies of Digital Media. Through these units, students ask: what human desires animate a relationship with media? For what purposes have people invented and evolved these technologies? How do makers use them, and what are audiences seeking in them? These questions help students see the fundamental forces that unite film, television, and digital media alongside the elements that distinguish them from each other.

This course introduces students to FMS through units that pair scholarly approaches with influential media forms: the Aesthetics of Film, the History of Television, and the Technologies of Digital Media. Through these units, students ask: what human desires animate a relationship with media? For what purposes have people invented and evolved these technologies? How do makers use them, and what are audiences seeking in them? These questions help students see the fundamental forces that unite film, television, and digital media alongside the elements that distinguish them from each other.