STUDY PROGRAMME
Painting and Visual Arts

AFAM CODE
ABAV6

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Techniques for Painting

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Techniques and Technologies of Visual Arts

CREDITS
8

APPROACH
Theoretical / Project based

The Shooting Techniques module is based on the analysis of and experimentation with the cinematographic language and techniques in the context of contemporary production (visual arts, cinema, new media), and focuses on the production of an original video project. The development process includes various steps: thinking by images, video shooting techniques, the relationship between visual and audio paradigms, movie and spectator points of view, rethinking of space and time, perception of movement and visual dynamics, fruition devices, teamwork, skills, collaborations, communication of the project. Experimental audio-visual language, short films and audio dramaturgy are the fields and formats analysed in the module.

The Basic Editing module encourages the students to increase their awareness and autonomy in audio-visual postproduction. It provides different levels of skills, starting from technical ones related to the various and most currently used editing software, to the design and organisation of materials in editing, up to the creation of images and audio languages.

The total credits for this course are 8, divided as follows:

• Shooting Techniques: 5 CFA

• Basic Editing: 3 CFA

• The Shooting Techniques module deals with various moments of the creative and technical video shooting process. The fields and formats taken into consideration are experimental audio-visual language, short films and sound dramaturgy. The module helps the students understand the different audio-visual languages in order to acquire the necessary skills to analyse film sequences and interpret the use of the video medium in different contexts (documentation of performative acts, projects specifically conceived for video, video art, installations, experimental films).

• The Basic Editing module, on the other hand, helps develop the students’ awareness and autonomy in audio-visual postproduction, providing different levels of skills: from the technical ones, related to the most currently used editing software, to the design and organisation of material during the assembly phase, up to the construction of a language for images and sounds.

• The working process of the Shooting Techniques module touches various moments: the analysis of audio-visual images, thinking by images, contextualisation of different video shooting techniques, relationships between visual and sound paradigms, film’s point of view and viewer’s gaze, reinvention of space and time, perception of movement and visual dynamics, different devices, audio-visual in contemporary art, video installations and experimental documentary videos, team work, skills, collaborations, and communication of the project.

• The Basic Editing module focuses on the various aspects of audio-visual postproduction, and allows the students to become familiar with the audio-visual language starting from the thematic nodes of film continuity-discontinuity, duration and fragment. Furthermore, the students learn to recognise the grammatical structures and the fundamental syntactic codes to be applied during the laboratory lessons to the films provided by the teacher; the theoretical reflection on the status of the film image goes hand in hand with laboratory lessons that allow the students to create personal essays as well as to acquire basic skills for the correct use of video editing software.

• Theoretical/project based classroom lectures

• Workshops

• Use of tutorials, videos or other media tools for detailed study

• Classroom debates and presentations

• Individual study and research

• Field trips (conferences, meetings, visits to exhibitions as organized by the professor or department)

Assessment is based on the overall competence of the students and may include:

• Oral exam

• Written exam

• Submission of papers, projects or research work

Further details on specific tests can be provided by the professor during the course. Assessment criteria include commitment, active participation and personal growth of the students over the course.

• Breschand J. Le Documentaire: L’Autre face du cinema (french edition).

• H. Arendt, The promise of politics.

• A. Bazin, What is cinema.

• M. Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge.

• M. Scotini, Politics of Memory, Archive Books.

Further bibliographic recommendations may be provided by the professor during the course. A lot of the referenced material, together with other in-depth study material, can be consulted online in MyNaba, in the Library section.