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SVF-3103: Constructing Stories - Montage, Narration, Editing Work Load
20 credits (ECTS) | Objectives
This unit form a compulsory part of the Master`s in visual Cultural Studies.
| Contents
The student will explore how to convey ethnographic stories, to create plots enabling these forms to evolve within social sciences. It is practice-based, where writing and filming are constantly associated and where students will practice the knowledge conveyed in theoretical lectures. The overall aim of the unit is to learn:
o How to film by thinking montage and editing;
o How to interpret a film technically and expressively, learning filmic language and a narrative structure;
o How to identify recurring paradigms in storytelling; to develop skills in writing for cinema and documentary. The course consists of four parts:
1) Narrative and montage,
2) Film seminar
3) Technical editing
4) The editing of a film of 10-15 minutes'' duration.
1) "Narrative and montage" provides examples of the paradigms or recurrences in the practice of storytelling. Storytelling in a filmic form is presented by means of motion pictures and sound, oral and written texts, using various genres, and it is constructed by the researcher in an ongoing dialogue and shared authorship with the subjects. The course includes an analysis of various storytelling practices: from the oral tradition to the tale, from fiction, novels, movies to journals, chronicles, descriptions, dialogues, monologues, drama etc. The basic film form will be analysed through montage and its technique: editing. Montage is the theoretical approach consisting in shaping the space-time dimension of each film through cutting and matching series of scenes. Examples from the history of montage will be shown and basic editing language acquired through exercises tackling the aspects of rhythm and pace, rupture and continuity.
2) "Ways of observing and participating in reality":
Each spring there will be a film seminar that will look closer at different trends in the documentary film tradition.
3) The course in technical editing gives an introduction to the use of the Media 100 editing suites.
4) The editing of the film, which has already been shot as a part of the subject SVF 3101/3102, gives the possibility to apply the learning from the other subjects and from previous parts of SVF 3103 into the making of a filmic story. The editing will be done, under supervision of the responsible teacher, by the team of two students that did the shooting.
| Form of teaching
Consists of lectures, seminars, and practical exercises with individual supervision. Course attendance is mandatory, i.e. only valid absences will be approved.
Syllabus: Approx 400 pages.
| Compulsory teaching
Editing manuscript | Assessment
Examination:
Requirement: An editing manuscript must be submitted.
The summative evaluation will be based on one the written assignment and the team film.
| Type of course
Theoretical subject. | Level of course/Year of study
First or second year at master''s level. | Recommended reading/syllabus
http://uit.no/62/1278/30
| Language of instruction
English | Timetables
http://timeplan.uit.no/emne.php?department=ALLE&module=SVF-3103-1 |
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