Variable Topics in Video Production/Practice

Training in low-budget and independent video and documentary practice as research tool. Visual ethnography combined with experimental film. Introduction to history, ethics, and aesthetics of documenting subjects such as culture, performance, and dance among range of forms for bodily expression and experience. Film and documentary theory, ethnography, and phenomenology used to create innovative and critical forms of visual documentation. Skills include cinematography, sound recording, interviews, and digital editing. May be repeated once for credit. Concurrently scheduled with course C280.

Letter grading.