Advanced Video and Related Media (Spring 2025)

Instructor

Judith Barry

Lab Fee

Per-term $75 fee after Add Date; SMACT students are exempt

Credit

3-3-6 U/Arranged G

Schedule

TW 2-5

Location

E15-207 (Tuesdays) and E15-001 (Wednesdays)

Advanced video production, installation, and exhibition design introduces advanced image and sound design strategies from both a technical and conceptual perspective. Storytelling is the linchpin that unites these seemingly disparate forms. Visual semiotics and media analysis, alongside installation and exhibition design, offer a perspective from which to consider how meaning is constructed when you engage across different forms of art production such as within individual artworks, media installations, and the design of exhibitions. Each of these forms implies a different spatial configuration and it is the relationship between the artwork and the space where it is displayed that determines how the work is understood by a viewer.

This course explores visual and textual analysis for interrogating artworks, pre-production planning (scripting + storyboarding for the shoot), exhibition design histories in relation to art movements, as well as the refinement and the use of various tools. These tools include single and multi-channel editing techniques, designing, and shooting for visual effects and compositing, production and post-production workflow, as well as sound design, exhibition design, and execution.

The context is provided by viewing and discussing contemporary forms of media including advertising, single and multi-channel media as well as installations, artworks, exhibitions, and other audio-visual formats. Students work individually and/or in groups to develop skills in media literacy and visual communication. Students are expected to develop a project over the course of the semester.

Additional work is required of students taking the graduate version.