Welcome to the massive open online course on Techniques of Ethnographic Film Making. It is for B.A. Sociology Hons under Under Choice Based Credit System.Course Objectives:This course focuses on doing sociology and social anthropology through forms other than the written, in particular, the oral, aural, and the visual. It introduces students to film techniques as a form and method of description and argument and enables a comparison between film and the written mode as ethnography.Taking up this course, students will acquire the following skills -• Draw on anthropological and social science approaches to ethnographic filmmaking• Think critically about the relationship between form and content in ethnographic and documentary practice• Master the technical skills needed to produce ethnographic accounts used in research• Critically view and review film material.
Techniques of Ethnographic Film Making
CEC and St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Kolkata via Swayam
This course may be unavailable.
Overview
Syllabus
Week 1
1. Documentary filmmaking and the anthropological eye
2. Introduction to FILM AS AN Ethnography and Ethnographic research
Week 2
3. Index, Icon, Symbol, Codes
4. Filmmaker and the filmed ‐ Gender, Class, Ethnicity
Week 3
5. Construction of meaning through images
6. The question of ethics in anthropological filmmaking
Week4
7. Storytelling in a Documentary
8. Writing Narration
9. Production process - Requirements & Stages
Week5
10. Crew Designations, Responsibilities
11. Types of video Camera and their Selection Ready
12. Videography 1
Week 6
13. Videography 2
14. Honing Your Interview Skills
15. Properties of Light and the Study of Lighting Situations Ready
Week 7
16. Lighting Techniques Ready
17. Speak Into Me
18. Practical on Sync Sound: Recording of Vocals & Music
Week 8
19. Shooting with new media device
20. Open resource/ tools for editing and storing your data
21. Open resource/ tools for editing and storing your data
Taught by
Dr, Ipsita Barat
