4.353/4.352 Advanced Video: Film/Video Strategies

This production course will explore the nature and function of narrative in cinema and video through exercises and screenings culminating in a final project. With a brief introduction to the basic principles of classic narrative cinema, we will proceed to explore and put into practice strategies designed to push the "envelope" of narrative: story trajectory, character development, verisimilitude, time-space continuity, closure, viewer identification, suspension of disbelief, and closure..

Screenings will survey a range of approaches to narrative form - from traditional to radical - that have characterized the recent history of independent film and video.

Fall 2008
Instructors: Jim Finn, Joe Gibbons
Meets: TW 7:00-10:00P
N51-315
4.352 Undergraduate Level Subject
4.353 Graduate Level Subject
Limited enrollment
Prereq: Permission of instructor
Units: 2-4-6