MIT4.366S04

About this film

This advanced video class serves goes into greater depth on the topics covered in 4.351 , Introduction to Video. It also will explore the nature and function of narrative in cinema and video through exercises and screenings culminating in a final project. Starting with a brief introduction to the basic principles of classical narrative cinema, we will proceed to explore strategies designed to test the elements of narrative: story trajectory, character development, verisimilitude, time-space continuity, viewer identification, suspension of disbelief, and closure.

Directors & creators

MIT OpenCourseWare

Subjects

movies;filmmaking;digital video;storytelling;modern art;media;computerized editing;personal story;emotional art;Fluxus;Bill Viola;digital representation;story trajectory;character development;verisimilitude;time-space continuity;viewer identification;suspension of disbelief;closure;narrative cinema;speculative biography;conceptual video;the fake;the remake;domestic ethnography

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