STUDY PROGRAMME
Painting and Visual Arts

AFAM CODE
ABPR36

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Performative techniques for the visual arts

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Video-installations

CREDITS
8

APPROACH
Theoretical / Project based

This module focuses on the technical aspects of implementing audio/visual projects. It aims at providing the students with the necessary tools to create videos, starting from the design phase through to the actual production (shooting and editing), postproduction, and final presentation. The module wants to develop and bring out the qualities of each student, and to enhance their artistic sensitivity. The course includes the development and presentation to the class of a personal audio-visual project.

This course is made of a single module of 8 CFA credits.

The course provides advanced tools for understanding, analysing, and using different languages related to the audio-visual field. It is designed to encourage the development of individual projects that mirror the research and the original expression of each student. Structured as a laboratory, the course invites the student to develop and present a project in a professional context.

The course deals with different aspects of working with audio / video: from the technical aspect of the development of a project, to the creative aspect and the design, implementation, post-production and finally presentation of personal works. Starting with weekly meetings and exercises, necessary for the understanding and subsequent application of the basic rules of shooting and editing, the course ends with the creation of a professional-level audio-visual product.

• 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.

• Paul Klee, Creative confession and other writings.

• John Beger, Ways of Seeing.

• Susan Sontag, On Photography.

• Bill Nichols, Introduction to Documentary.

• John Cage, The Selected Letters of John Cage.

• D.M. Huber, R.E. Runstein, Modern Recording Techniques.

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.