To Do This Week
DUE: JOB PROFILE FINAL CUT
Watch:
Blog Prompt: Watch the above videos that introduce the popular video essay form, and then look at some video essays on your own – do a search on YouTube or maybe you have a favorite. In a post, share the video essay along with your thoughts/opinions about the use of language (spoken and/or on-screen text) with image. How are voice-over, text, sound, graphics and video combined to explore an idea or make an argument? How would you begin “writing” your own video essay?
Also, please describe your final project idea. Please address the following questions:
- In two or three sentences, what is your subject, idea or story?
- What form will it take? (YouTube series, 2-3 minute video, interactive video)
- Which two class modules are you exploring in this project?
- What will you need in the coming weeks to shoot/capture video? (actors, locations, permissions)
Video Lectures
Friday Class (Zoom)
DUE: JOB PROFILE FINAL CUT
Finish viewing Job Profiles
Discuss the video essay
Final Projects ideas
Notes
Film Essay: using the cinema to explore, investigate, “essay” the world and experience.
Michel de Montaigne – “essai”
1) an attempt or effort
2) personal writing on a particular subject
3) open ended (not like traditional college essay)
Capturing the mundane real, “pure cinema”
Rain, Joris Ivens, 1929
Poetic real, surreal documentary
A propos de Nice – Jean Vigo, 1930
Fact and Fiction
F for Fake – Orson Welles, 1973
Combinatory, exploratory, travel
Sans soleil, Chris Marker, 1982
Video Essays
Personal Essay/Documentary
Video Essay: Due April 16th
Make a 30-60 second video essay about any subject. Draw on various techniques from course modules. Use text and/or voice-over, clips from other videos or games, your own footage, graphics, still images. A video essay may also include personal anecdotes and have a unique style. Although there are video essays without language, please include some written text and/or voice over.
Making a Video Essay: A film essay grows out of a process where the image and text come together. It could start with an image that you notice or capture with your camera. Or it could start with a few sentences. You gather image and text and weave them together to find your subject.
- What is your central idea or argument? Write it down in one sentence. Or try to capture media related to your idea.
- What form will it take? Voiceover, text with image, pure audio/visual sequence without language?
- Write a very rough draft. Be loose and exploratory in thoughts. This is not a school “essay.”
- Storyboard ideas from rough draft.
- Collect media with YouTube downloads and/or go out with your camera. (cite sources for the post and in the credits)
- Assemble clips in timeline for visual evidence.
- Rewrite rough draft for chosen clips.
- Edit a rough cut of images, sound and text.
- Lay first track of voice-over. (Premiere’s audio tracks have a record button for laying audio directly)
- Edit final cut
- Finalize with voiceover in a more casual voice.
- Add title, credits, mix sound/music.
Student Work: