Video Art

Video Art (ARTS 1845) is an introduction to video as an art making tool, emphasizing editing, cinematography, and personal vision. Students learn to use strategies such as Continuity and Montage to tell stories and express a point of view. Students plan, record, edit and present their own short original videos. Works by video artists are viewed and discussed to examine the history, theory, and contemporary practice of video art.

Montage Project

Students are challenged to create a video that primarily uses sequence, pacing, and image to construct poetic, visual, and metaphoric impact. The content can focus on the kinds of common, generally unnoticed activities that exist between the memorable events of our lives. The goal of this project is to create meaning through editing, as oppose to action, dialogue, or plot. Editing can create a “third meaning” that exists in the spaces between shots.

Kholoud.Music of Life.mov

Kholoud Janoudi: Music Creation

Routine Morning_21F.mp4

Henry Clarke: Routine Morning

Final Sprite Product.mov

Simon Whittaker: Sprite

Composite Project

Compositing means combining visual elements from separate sources into a single image, often to create the illusion that the composited elements interact. Compositing has existing since the earliest film, for example in the work of Georges Méliès. In this assignment students use matting, keying, and other techniques to create original, imaginative films.

THE SCROLL_23S.mp4

Janeerie McRae-O'neal: The Scroll

Story Arc Project

This project follows a series of exercises which introduce camera use and editing techniques such as Point of View Sequence and Matching on Action. Students storyboard, record and edit a project which follows a classic story arc or one several examples of nonlinear storytelling. Students consider how each shot and cut contribute to the structure of the story, and how cuts can build or release tension and anticipation.

Story_21F.mov

Nora Kattan: Untitled

theconfessionFINAL.mp4

Cynder Carroll-Coates: The Confession

Acting / Video Collaboration

For these projects, Video students collaborated with students taking Acting for the Camera in CCRI's Theatre Program. Video students storyboard, film and edit. Theatre students rehearse and perform narrative and commercial scripts. Together, students practice networking and a better understanding of how to communicate with each other in a professional setting. This collaboration pushes all participants to make the best quality work for their peers.

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Lysol Ad.mov

Doritos Ad.mov

Benadryl Ad.mp4

Comic Shop.mov

Its Up to You.mov

Collaborative Remote Filmmaking, 2021

The Video / Theatre collaboration began in Spring 2021, when all CCRI courses were remote due to the COVID pandemic. Over the course of a few weeks, the student actors and filmmakers met to plan and film their projects. All meetings were held remotely and much of the filming was done on Zoom. Given these constraints, students made creative use of greenscreen, the Kuleshov technique, and audio editing to stitch their projects together.

Jasper.DrugBust.mpeg

Jasper Cournoyer: Drug Bust

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