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.movKholoud Janoudi: Music Creation
Routine Morning_21F.mp4Henry Clarke: Routine Morning
Final Sprite Product.movSimon 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.mp4Janeerie 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.movNora Kattan: Untitled
theconfessionFINAL.mp4Cynder Carroll-Coates: The Confession
Acting / Video Collaboration
For this project students collaborated with the course Acting for the Camera in CCRI's Theatre Program. 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.mpegJasper Cournoyer: Drug Bust