00205  Genres of Video Production

Not offered in 2001

This course provides students with an opportunity to explore the aesthetic and technical conventions of video production by critiquing and creating genre texts. The codes and conventions of narrative and non-narrative genres including sci-fi, action, melodrama, film noir, comedy, avant-garde, music videos and the rise of hybrid or post-genre texts are examined in several ways: as sites for the comparative analysis of the diverse possibilities of video style and production; as an industrial component; and as a means of mapping cultural change. As such, students examine and produce genre texts from within a cultural studies framework in order to become literate in, and therefore able to negotiate, the complex ways in which video texts communicate, contest and transform cultural meaning. Students who enrol in this course will need access to a video camera and video-editing software. Access to a multimedia computer with an Internet connection, audio capabilities, a CD-ROM drive and a Zip drive is also a requirement for this course. Students who enrol in this course are expected to have an understanding of the topics covered in 51104 Introduction to Communication & Culture.