ENGL. 311: ADVANCED COMPOSITION: FILM-MAKING as composition
Students' Film Projects
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"Film is a resource that can allow writers to move from passive consumers of large amounts of visual information to active participants creating inspired multimodal texts" (Durst, 2015, p. 1) As perspectives about critical literacy evolve, scholars in rhetoric and composition recognize literacy skills beyond reading and writing to include active and civic participation in the public sphere to critique dominant discourses, to make meaning, and to transform reality (Banks, 2006; Kellner and Share, 2005; Selfe and Hawisher, 2004; Warschaur, 2010). In this class, I consider technology to be an essential component of composition. Therefore, we will examine “literacies of technology, [...] that can connect social practices, people, technology, values, and literate activity, which, in turn, are embedded in a larger cultural ecology” (Selfe and Hawisher, 2004, p. 2). In order to teach new tools of critical literacy, this class aims to provide you with theoretical knowledge and hands-on skills to practice rhetoric and digital media composition (specifically filmmaking) in various contexts. In this class, you will produce films to respond to academic, social, and workplace issues that interest you. You will study filmmaking as composition, and apply your new theoretical knowledge to making: [1] Public Service Announcements (PSAs), [2] Video Essays, and [3] Documentary Films. While studying filmmaking, you will examine rhetorical and composition theory in multiple genres of films. Through hands-on filmmaking workshops, you will use techniques of storyboarding, script writing, conducting interviews, filming, conducting research, revising, editing, and online publishing. SYLLABUS AND LEARNING ASSIGNMENTS & ACTIVITIES Consent was acquired from students to link to their work on this website.
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