Contemporary Art & Film

What do we do?

The arty bit

• In Term 1 we look at film as an art form of sequential images, including:

• Who does it and with what objectives. This then includes feature film makers, music video makers and video artists and the different contexts in which they work.

• The composing of images and image sequences – with film examples.

• The relationship between film and other image based art forms, including contemporary art.

• Editing techniques.

We look at lots of pictures, like this:

… and this …

This is the

film maker Martin

Scorsese’s

favourite artist.

(You knew that there would be some painting if I was teaching!)

The technical bit

• In Term 2 Chris Woollard will teach you how to load, set up and use a film camera and you will make a short film.

• You will do practical scene-lighting and framing exercises, both in the studio and outside.

• This is studio and location based and is taught at Avery Hill campus (there is a ‘school bus’).

• It’s exciting, complicated (involving teamwork) and expensive (there is a small charge for film use – currently £40).

Coursework• There are 3 short pieces of coursework for Term 1: an essay, an

illustration (easy) and a group presentation (fun). • In Term 2 you make a short piece of film.• There is an exam in May with one compulsory question on scene

lighting and equipment for a specific film, and one shorter question on each term’s work. (We prepare you carefully for this with 2 revision sessions.)

• If none of this has put you off (and it shouldn’t because it’s all exciting stuff), we’ll see you next term.

Alison

• References for images are in the original lectures.