Film and Video Studies Spring 2017 Course Brochure (Includes FVS and Related Programs) Course Title Instructor Day Time Room FVS 261 Technical Video Production Bobby Chastain M/W (lec) 2:30-3:20 TBA F (lab) 1:30-3:20 FVS 332 Technical Video Production Bobby Chastain M/W 1:30-2:20 TBA Arrange Lab Hours FVS 337 Editing Bobby Chastain T 9:30-11:20 STEW B81 Th 8:30 -11:20 FVS 442 Digital Cinema Production Bobby Chastain W 9:30-11:20 STEWB81 F 8:30 -11:20 FVS 450 Internship in Film and Video Bobby Chastain Arrange hours & credit (1-3) (1-4 in summer only) FVS 491 Film & Video Capstone Bobby Chastain TBA TBA TBA AD 30400 Video Art Fabian Winkler AD 30400 Video Art ENG 387 History of Film 1938-Present Ben Lawton T/TH 3:00-3:50 SC 102 Lab 6:30-9:20 BRWN 1154 GER 330 German Cinema Beate Allert T/TH 4:30--5:20 REC 302 TH (lab) 7-9:30pm SC 239 ITAL 335 Italian American Cinema Ben Lawton TTH (lec) 10:30-11:20 TBA (Mafia & the Movies meets with ITAL 493L and FVS 491) W (lab) 10:30-12-20 SC 239 W (PSO) 12:30-1:20 SC 239 ITAL 330 Italian Cinema Ben Lawton TTH (lec) 12:30-1:20 TBA W (lab) 2:30-4-20 SC 239 W (PSO) 4:30-5:20 SC 239 SPAN 330 Film in Spain and Patricia Hart ONLINE Hispanic America THTR 16300 Introduction to Sound TBA T 3:30-5:20 Pao B185, B187 Design and Technology THTR 263 Introduction to Sound Studios TBA TBA 11:30-1:20 Pao B185, 187 HONR 299 Music as a Chariot TTh 1:30 - 3:20 Pao B185 THTR 56900 Special Problems in Audio TBA Production: Techniques of the Recording Studio F 1:30 - 3:20 Pao B185 Sat 11:30 - 1:20 Course Descriptions AD30400 Video Art: An introductory class dedicated to the artistic potential of digital video. The class consists of technical workshops, creative assignment work and the research, screening, analysis and discussion of existing works related to the field. The class starts with an introduction to the digital video camera and the digitizing and editing of video footage. In the next step, students explore the use of light and learn compositing and chroma-keying techniques. After the acquisition of basic techniques in production, post-production and distribution of traditional linear video, students have the opportunity to apply their knowledge toward the creation of non-linear video which includes new artistic forms such as VJing, video loops, installation and non-linear narratives. Each thematic unit will be accompanied by student research presentations on relevant artists, placing works of video art in historical and contemporary American cultural contexts. ENG 387 History of Film 1938-Present: This is an intensive survey of international cinema since 1938. The goal of the class is to develop your capacity to read a film, respond to it more thoroughly, more personally, and more vividly. This course focuses upon two kinds of history: film history and the relationship of films to the history of their times. It covers 70 years of both of these histories: the second half of the history of motion pictures and the second half of the 20th Century. Each week as we see and discuss a new film we will analyze it in terms of these two contexts. FVS 261 Technical Video Production: This introductory course in Film, Video, and Television Production will prepare the student to use the technology of the camera as a basis for the art and visual storytelling of motion pictures. The student will also receive the basic background needed for understanding the skills and processes of a single camera production environment. FVS 332 Technical Video Production: This intermediate to advanced course in Film, Video, and Television Production will prepare the student to participate in a live multi-camera field production environment. Students will act as all members of a production team (Producer, Director, Graphics, Sound, Replay, and Camera) for live productions. Most productions are in collaboration with Intercollegiate Athletics and the Big Ten Network to produce sports television, but other subject matter (such as live music performance) may be pursued as well. FVS 261 pre-req. FVS 337 Editing: This course offers students a general background in motion picture editing history, theory, and technique. The students will begin to learn to use industry standard software AVID Media Composer and will prepare themselves to become certified users of these tools. FVS 261 Pre-req. FVS 442 Digital Cinema Production: This class is designed to gain a working knowledge of how a film is developed in the preproduction stage, executed in the production stage, and completed in the post- production stage. Through lectures, viewings, discussions, and laboratory exercises, the student will be exposed to both the technical and artistic aspects of video production culminating in the production of a complete short narrative motion picture. FVS 337 Pre-req FVS 450 Internship in Film and Video: Instructor permission required. FVS 261 pre-req. Minimum GPA requirement of 2.75 overall FVS 491 Film & Video Capstone: Instructor Permission Only GER330 German Cinema: Examines German cinema from 1920 to the present. In addition to viewing and carefully studying films, we consider the historical, political, economic, and social backgrounds that shaped these works and their reception. The course will give you a better understanding of German and European history, promote visual literacy, the ability to "read" images and films, and learn new aspects of film theory and cinematography. It will also involve the writing of reviews, essays, a midterm, and a take home final exam. These are all based on the films seen in class and on the readings and regular attendance to all class sessions and the film screenings is expected. All films shown are in German with English subtitles. No German language skill is required. However, for those participants who are majors or minors in German, there is the welcome option to practice their German and also work on improving language and writing skills in that language You can write in English or German as you prefer. Class discussions in English. There will be the option also to make the production of a short film as part of the portfolio and thereby to replace some of the critical essay writing. Each week we see one film and have two shorter sessions for lectures, discussion, and student presentations. The course will further contribute to your writing and communication skills and to a better global understanding. HONR 299 Music as a Chariot: The purpose of this course is to introduce students to an aesthetic vocabulary of design elements that is useful in both visual and auditory design and music composition. By the end of this semester, students should be able to articulate an individual aesthetic regarding the art of sound, identify elements of color, mass, time, space, and line in sound scores as created for film and theatre, and more effectively use these same elements in their own designs and compositions. ITAL 335 Italian American Cinema: Americans are fascinated by the "Mafia." Over the years, it has been portrayed in very different ways in Italian, Italian American, and American films. This course will consider these depictions, their frequently questionable historical accuracy, their "intent," and reactions to them among their target audiences. The course will also ask if the “Mafia” really exists as all-powerful criminal organization whose tentacles reach into all aspects of American life. Or, is it the equivalent of the Wild West and the Pony Express, phenomena of relatively brief duration and of marginal importance even in their heyday, occurrences that were immortalized by the media? By extension, are these films about the “Mafia,” whatever it is, or are they a “genre” and, as such, as constrained as are western or musicals. Films on the “Mafia” present numerous contradictions. Many of these works seem to imply that all Italian Americans are somehow connected to organized crime. Others seem to glorify what is self-evidently unacceptable criminal behavior. Still others condemn the pernicious influence of this allegedly very dangerous "shadow" government. Some would seem to depict the “Mafia’ as metaphor for the U.S. government. There are yet others who suggest that organized crime is simply one means of achieving the American dream, means that has been adopted to a greater or lesser degree by all immigrant groups. Or, finally, are they “circuses” intended to distract the nefarious activities of what, paraphrasing President Eisenhower, has been called the military-industrial-congressional-academic complex? Why these differences? Are any of these depictions more accurate than others? Should the Mafia be depicted at all in fiction films? Are all such depictions inherently “racist?” (And what does that mean???) ITAL 330 Italian Cinema: What is this course all about? The masterpieces of Italian cinema, like masterpieces in the other arts, attempt to express the many aspects of the human condition such as malice, rage, lust, and love. They also constantly test the limits and capabilities of the medium. This course focuses on the evolving form and content of the films of world-renowned directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni (Red Desert, Blow Up), Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris), Liliana Cavani (The Night Porter, The Skin), Vittorio De Sica (Bicycle Thieves, Miracle in Milan, Two Women, The Garden of the Finzi-Contini), Federico Fellini (La Strada, La Dolce Vita,8 ½, Amarcord), Pietro Germi (Divorce Italian Style, Seduced and Abandoned), Sergio Leone (The Good, The Bad, and tThe Ugly, Once