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SVF-3101: Approaching social realities: The understanding of people¿s living conditions Work Load
20 credits (ECTS) | Type of course
Theoretical | Level of course/Year of study
Master | Language of instruction
English | Examination semester
Autumn
| Objectives
This unit constitutes a compulsory part of the Masters degree in Visual Cultural Studies.
| Contents
The course concentrates on the cinematographic contribution to production of anthropological knowledge. It aims at preparing the students - both in their way of thinking and operating - to become ethnographic filmmakers. They learn to use the camera as a research tool when they are doing their fieldwork. It focuses on film form and cinematopgrahic languages by emphasizing film-recording as a practice, looking at and representing social processes. It takes into account the theoretical and methodological challenges related to fieldwork with camera.
Throughout the course, the students will receive technical training in the use of the equipment (both camera and sound)and they will conduct range of exercises, from still-photograhpi to video recording in order to confront them with a growing range of complexities in elaborating a filmic discourse. Skills will be deveoped both technical and expression wise - in the art of telling stories with images. Analyses and interpretation of the "film rushes" constitute and ongoing part of the learning process. Through this experience the students acquire and awareness of how different ways of filming imply different ways of looking at and presenting the world, i.e. social processes. This again will progressively make them sensitive to various methodological challenges and different ways of producting knowledge.
The theoretical lectures on cinematographic languages and on the different approaches to filming the world and will include looking at a selection of film excerpts from early cinema to the most recent trends.
Lectures on social scientific theory and methodology will be given to support the reflection on how to acquire knowledge about social and cultural processes to fieldwork with camera.
SVF-3101 is the preparatory course for the two-week team-work based fieldwork conducted in Tromsoe, during the autumn term.
In SVF-3105 film in cross-cultural research ethnographic films from early cinema till the most resant trends will be screened in their full length. The seminar will give an introduction to how different genres within ethnographic- and documentary film-making have to influenced by the ethnographic project.
On important context for the presentation of the films screened will be SVF-3101. This is also a forum for discussion that demands active participation from the students.
| Form of teaching
Lectures | Coursework requirements
Two exercises in still PhotographyFive Video ExercisesMinifieldwork
| Exam and assessment
Requirement: Two exercises in still Photography. Five Video Exercises. A project description for the teamwork organized "minifieldwork". Exam: Hands in two of the Video Exercises accompanied by a paper, 5-6 pages, technical and methodological aspects of the videos. | Contact person/lecturer
Ane-Marie Hektoen | Recommended reading/syllabus
See homepage. | Course overlap
SVF-3101 -1 10 sp | Timetables
http://timeplan.uit.no/emne.php?debug=0&to_pdf=0&year=2007&department=SVF&module=SVF-3101-2 |
Teaching autumn 2007
First meeting: August 13 at 10:15, room 5.310 | | Lectures | Lærer U-lektor Rachel Issa Djesa
Lærer stip. Marcela Douglas
| | Exam | Date for handing in paper: October 19. |
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