Description
Film is a language that most of us, from a very young age, have learned to read through immersion. This course is designed to help students deepen this literacy, as well as to learn how to speak the film language for themselves and in collaboration with peers. The seminar will be structured as a crash course in filmmaking that emphasizes a “learning-by-doing” approach. Students will regularly be assigned creative assignments of conceiving, writing, preproducing, shooting, editing, and postproducing various film exercises. Much of the creative work will be done outside of class time. In class, a workshop environment will engage us in screenings, discussions, critiques, revisions, and re-edits of those exercises. Working in groups—in an ever-shifting relation of creative roles and authorship—will afford students the support and resources to explore increasingly complicated film projects. We will engage firsthand in both the problems and pleasures of one of the most highly collaborative a