MMDS 7967 2009

 

Assessment Item 2: Digital Video Production and Documents

Assessment Item 3: Essay

 

 

We will meet in Week 6 on Friday 4th September at 11 am for 1 hour and thereafter each week at the same time for around 5 weeks.

We will meet in room 310 of GPS bldg 78.

The first reading is Walter Benjamin's Little History of Photography,

Benjamin, Walter, Selected writings Walter Benjamin; edited by Marcus Bullock and Michael W. Jennings, Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press, c1996-, v.2, pp.507-530.

It was written in the first half of the last century, but relevant when we think

about technological and communication changes of today.

To find it go to the library catalogue and enter the title. You can then download a full text pdf of the article.

 

The second reading is Chapter 12 "The Documentary Screen" from your text book Screen Media Arts, for this Friday 11th September.

A recommended reading is Nichols, Bill. What Types of Documentary are There? in Introduction to Documentary. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University press, 2001. 99-138. Bill Nichols formulated the schema of documentary modes as a way of analysing documentaries.

 

The third reading is Chapter 2 "Narrative Forms and Screen Media Arts" from Screen Media Arts for Friday 18th September.

The fourth reading is Chapter 17 "Aspects of the Present and the Future in Screen Media" for Friday 26th September.