Lo-fi Sci-fi (intermediate video production)
AFVS 164L
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Course Information
Description
In this intermediate video production course, students will work with narrative, conceptual, aesthetic forms, and filmmaking processes derived from science fiction to produce hybrid nonfiction short films. The class will explore the generative possibilities of the real in the production of fiction works, as well as fictional and genre strategies for working in nonfiction filmmaking. We will work hybridly between fiction and nonfiction, exploring the possibilities that scriptwriting for nonfiction, creating sets and objects, and working with non-professional actors, open to our work as filmmakers. The temporal, spatial, and narrative possibilities offered by the genre of science fiction will be mobilized to explore hybrid forms of filmmaking. Assignments will encompass video and sound recording and editing, cinematography and montage, and each student will produce a final film during the semester. Class time will include technical workshops, film screenings, discussions of student work, as well as occasional visiting filmmakers.
Course Notes
Pre-requisites: One AFVS film/video course, or equivalent work produced in film/video with permission from the instructor
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
