COM 434 - Advanced Video production
Course Description
COM 434 offers hands-on experience in video production through the creation of informational videos. Practical experience in all phases of the production process, including pre-production, organization, and critical analysis of the final product. This course will address advanced technical elements of production, while also considering the ethics and affordances of various mediums of delivery. This class functions as an exploration of video as a critical intervention in social and visual arts contexts, while drawing connections between critical-cultural theory and production as a tool for art, activism, and craft.
Client Project Showcase
This course emphasizes the importance and value of becoming ethically minded and critically engaged creators, and this project fuctions the summation of those efforts. For this project, student groups were tasked with collaborating on a client-based video project which will be presented at the conclusion of the semester. Students worked on the project for the duration of the semester with two goals: firstly, to help prepare students for client-based work in the future by giving them an opportunity to create alongside others now. Secondarily to extend the course's intellectual discussion beyond the classroom and to spark critical dialogue about the tension between creator and creativity.
Client Project Information
Join our students in viewing their client work featuring:
Ella's Race by Kate Carpenter, Talayah James, & Alex Tskynov: Ella was diagnosed in April 29, 2008 with a Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma. This is a rare, aggressive, non-operable tumor located in the pons area of the brainstem. The prognosis for this type of tumor is extremely grim. There is no cure, no known effective treatment except for radiation-which, for some, provides only temporary relief of the symptoms. Ella passed away on Wednesday, February 8th 2012, and since then Proceeds of Ella's Race help organizations fight for children like Ella. The race supports The Cure Starts Now and the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation to help save children diagnosed with cancer and brain tumors.
Ishanya Performing Arts Academy by Nick Richarde, Emry Ramseur, & Graci Tow: Sanskriti Imandar founded Inshanya Dance in the early 2000s with a dream of helping others to lighten their lives through fitness and dance. This work will feature Sanskriti's journey through a short film reimagination of her story. Join us for this inspirational film showing a woman's growth through exercise, and how it impacts the other aspects of her life.
Joel Lane Museum House by Mary Obiol, Jana Wildy, & Jacob Liddicote:The Joel Lane Museum House is the oldest extant home in Wake County and in Raleigh. Built by enslaved laborers in 1769, this home was once called “the best house for 100 miles,” and it hosted a number of significant historical meetings. From the first meetings of the Wake County Court, through Committee of Safety strategy sessions during the Revolutionary War, to the final decision to locate the new state capital—to be named Raleigh—on Joel Lane’s land in 1792, the Hall of Joel Lane’s home is “The Room Where it Happened.” Learn more about Joel Lane's history and interpretation in this video.
Roots with Purpose by Ian Gillen, Rob Lasson, Zach Seitz & Allison Potter: Roots with Purpose is a nonprofit focused on meeting the needs of the unhoused population in Wake County. Their long term goal is to create compassionate community-centered spaces that provide short-term housing and other necessary resources to support our unhoused neighbors as they design and follow a plan of action to secure sustainable living conditions, self-sufficiency and a fruitful life of meaning and purpose.This video will highlight a portable shower unit being built by the organization to provide showers and associated services for the unhoused community in Wake County.