Audio-Visual Research Methods and Short Film Production Workshop
Link to this course at Learnweb:
https://www.uni-muenster.de/LearnWeb/learnweb2/course/view.php?id=48671
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! Please note! The originally proposed schedule changes. Please look for updates at the WWU Learnweb. The class will be taught online, while some block classes will be combined with regular bi-weekly sessions. We stick to the originally scheduled first block classes, however, we reduce the length of the teaching days to four hours a day.
First session: November 07. / 08. 2020:
Saturday 07.11.2020 10:00-12:30, lunch break & Saturday 07.11.2020, 13:00-15:00
Sunday 08.11.2020 10:00-12:30, lunch break & Sunday 08.11.2020, 13:00-15:00
Find further dates below!
Course Outline:
This class is informed by ‘visual anthropology’
theories, methods & debates. It teaches students in two very related
fields: A: We look closer at methods and theories of how to use audio-visual
media for fieldwork and apply that in practice. B: The class trains the
participants in producing a short anthropologically informed documentary video
to represent ethnographic fieldwork experience and the related research
interest. Students have to develop a research project and accompany their qualitative
research with audio-visual media to gather data, but also to finally edit a
presentable short film. In spite of remote videoconference teaching there are
convenient ways to train the participants in audio-visual video and image
production and editing. Students might work in small groups or individually.
!! First assignment: Brainstorm and think of a research & film project. Please don’t team up yet everybody each needs to develop a project in the first place! Research some literature related to that topic. For instance, if ‘gender’, ‘migration’, ‘emotion’, or ‘ritual’ plays a role in your research interest, look into related literature. Present your project briefly in class at our first meeting.
Some further details outlined: We deal with film and photography in qualitative social research and look at recent theories, methods and case studies related to that undertaking. Students will be encouraged to try out participatory methods, too, such as photo/video elicitation. That means that we work with photo/video materials (or even archives such as social media archives amongst others) shot by our very social actors themselves, for example video-diaries, home movies, Instagram archives, or photos/videos they might shot for you to share insights into their social reality and subjectivity. Thereby, audio-visual media will be explored as an ethnographic research tool to gather empirical data. Students will use cameras while doing fieldwork to document their fieldwork on the one hand, but to produce on the other hand a properly produced short film too. Finally we will do a presentation of your works in April 2021, hopefully in public!
- Students will be invited to join the excursion to the Freiburger Film Forum – Festival for Transcultural Cinema, which will take place in May 2021.
Further dates (Mondays bi-weekly)
- Note that this change of the schedule happened spontaneous, since it does not seam very likely that the pandemic situation favours offline teaching for WS 20/21. In case we’ll find out that this Monday session is not convenient for too many of you we’ll set up a doodle to find out the most convenient date for most of you, or we might get back to schedule another block date. However, regarding zoom interaction, shorter sessions are more likely successful leaning experiences than long zoom block weekends.
Schedule:
Saturday 07.11.2020 10:00-12:30, lunch break & Saturday 07.11.2020, 13:00-15:00
Sunday 08.11.2020 10:00-12:30, lunch break & Sunday 08.11.2020, 13:00-15:00
Monday 23.11.2020 10:00-12:00
Monday 07.12.2020 10:00-12:00
Monday 21.12.2020 10:00-12:00
Monday 11.01.2021 10:00-12:00
Monday 25.01.2021 10:00-12:00
Monday 08.02.2021 10:00-12:00
Monday 22.02.2021 10:00-12:00
Monday 15.03.2021 10:00-12:00
Monday 29.03.2021 10:00-12:00
- Lehrende/r: Thomas John