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B024681 - LABORATORY OF CINEMA
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Academic Year 2020-21
Course year
Third year - First Semester
Belonging Department
History, Archaeology, Geography, Fine and Performing Arts (SAGAS)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
-
Credits
3
Teaching Hours
18
Teaching Term
14/09/2020 ⇒ 04/12/2020
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Giudizio Finale
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Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
Involve the students in a practical experience intended to manipulate and re-elaborate audio-visual materials
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Learning Objectives
The laboratory aims to provide essential skills for the deployment phases for the production of an audiovisual works: 1) the design¬ 2) the collection of materials 3) the video editing.
Knowledge and understanding: through analysis of several audiovisual documents, mainly documentary, students will be able to deepen the different steps of the process.
Knowledge and understanding skills: elaboration of a personal project from the subject to the final editing.
Autonomy of judgment: acquisition of individual critical-analytical skills through the critical comparison among students and teachers.
Communication skills: acquisition of key competences related to cinematographic "shooting" and "editing".
Ability to learn: knowingly use of for the development of the work in a personal style.
Knowledge and understanding: through analysis of several audiovisual documents, mainly documentary, students will be able to deepen the different steps of the process.
Knowledge and understanding skills: elaboration of a personal project from the subject to the final editing.
Autonomy of judgment: acquisition of individual critical-analytical skills through the critical comparison among students and teachers.
Communication skills: acquisition of key competences related to cinematographic "shooting" and "editing".
Ability to learn: knowingly use of for the development of the work in a personal style.
Prerequisites
Personal commitment to acquire basic elements of film editing.
Type of Assessment
Each student will deliver by the agreed date an audiovisual product with a duration of 3 to 5 minutes.
During the first workshop’s meeting the "theme" will be established. Each audiovisual works will have to refer to the theme which the student could re-elaborate in a personal way. Since the film is by its nature a teamwork, (screenwriter, director, editor, operator etc.) the students could form little teamwork (max. 3 people). Each student could develop the side that will be most congenial to him/her (writing, directing, shooting, editing, etc.). Everyone should also be involved in every production phases. Each personal contribution to the work, will be verified at the final presentation.
All technological tools used to record and to produce both audio and video materials, are allowed (cell phones, video cameras, or pre-existing materials acquired for found footage). The evaluation criteria used to determine the suitability of individual students will not be so much in the aesthetic quality of the works themselves, (since the laboratory does not arise as a school of cinema) but rather they will derive from the comparison between the starting levels of specific skills, significantly different from subject to subject, and the acquisitions in the meantime gained in the conception, construction and manipulation of audiovisual images aimed at specific expressive purposes.
It will be possible to record in the University transcript and collect signatures (for Erasmus students) in the date of every exam and during the office hours after laboratory’s record made throught the University computer system.
During the first workshop’s meeting the "theme" will be established. Each audiovisual works will have to refer to the theme which the student could re-elaborate in a personal way. Since the film is by its nature a teamwork, (screenwriter, director, editor, operator etc.) the students could form little teamwork (max. 3 people). Each student could develop the side that will be most congenial to him/her (writing, directing, shooting, editing, etc.). Everyone should also be involved in every production phases. Each personal contribution to the work, will be verified at the final presentation.
All technological tools used to record and to produce both audio and video materials, are allowed (cell phones, video cameras, or pre-existing materials acquired for found footage). The evaluation criteria used to determine the suitability of individual students will not be so much in the aesthetic quality of the works themselves, (since the laboratory does not arise as a school of cinema) but rather they will derive from the comparison between the starting levels of specific skills, significantly different from subject to subject, and the acquisitions in the meantime gained in the conception, construction and manipulation of audiovisual images aimed at specific expressive purposes.
It will be possible to record in the University transcript and collect signatures (for Erasmus students) in the date of every exam and during the office hours after laboratory’s record made throught the University computer system.
Course program
The aim of the workshop is to involve the students in a practical experience intended to manipulate and re-elaborate audio-visual materials, including the use of existing (found) footage as well as the experimentation in producing brand new materials.
The background for the short films students will create is that film area whose production strays away from the canons of industrial audio-visual production (for both the big and the small screen); an area that, with different definitions and declinations, is labeled as “home movies”, experimental or underground cinema, personal or private cinema, autobiographical cinema, etc.
Workshop meetings will alternate film screenings exemplifying the various modes of expression, lectures so as to provide the students with the basic skills in filming and audio-visual editing, and reflections on the audio-visual expressions areas that go beyond the traditional cinematic genres.
The workshop is not to be seen as a “film school”, which of course would envisage a multi-year education. Therefore, students are requested to actively participate to the workshop without limiting themselves to the mere participation to class meetings.
The 18 hours lectures the workshop will consist of will be divided into 5 weekly consecutive meetings of 4 hours each and a sixth meeting, one month after the last lesson, dedicated to the screening and critical evaluation of the materials created by the students.
The background for the short films students will create is that film area whose production strays away from the canons of industrial audio-visual production (for both the big and the small screen); an area that, with different definitions and declinations, is labeled as “home movies”, experimental or underground cinema, personal or private cinema, autobiographical cinema, etc.
Workshop meetings will alternate film screenings exemplifying the various modes of expression, lectures so as to provide the students with the basic skills in filming and audio-visual editing, and reflections on the audio-visual expressions areas that go beyond the traditional cinematic genres.
The workshop is not to be seen as a “film school”, which of course would envisage a multi-year education. Therefore, students are requested to actively participate to the workshop without limiting themselves to the mere participation to class meetings.
The 18 hours lectures the workshop will consist of will be divided into 5 weekly consecutive meetings of 4 hours each and a sixth meeting, one month after the last lesson, dedicated to the screening and critical evaluation of the materials created by the students.