Miriam Ross – THATCamp Wellington 2013 http://wellington2013.thatcamp.org Just another THATCamp site Wed, 04 Dec 2013 22:46:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Video Essay session update http://wellington2013.thatcamp.org/2013/11/28/video-essay-session-update/ Thu, 28 Nov 2013 20:17:31 +0000 http://wellington2013.thatcamp.org/?p=324

sorry to have led thatcamp early. here’s the link to our play with video essays

thanks to everyone who took part

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TEACH: Using Video Essays as a Research/Teaching Tool http://wellington2013.thatcamp.org/2013/11/25/teach-using-video-essays-as-a-researchteaching-tool/ http://wellington2013.thatcamp.org/2013/11/25/teach-using-video-essays-as-a-researchteaching-tool/#comments Mon, 25 Nov 2013 22:38:56 +0000 http://wellington2013.thatcamp.org/?p=278 Continue reading ]]>

Now that editing software is easily available and it is increasingly simple to download/rip AV content, video essays are becoming increasingly popular. Two main trends seem to be emerging:

1. Video essays that merge text, sound and visual content in an open manner that can be read in multiple ways. These normally lead viewers towards central arguments but ask viewers to engage in their own interpretations of the content. A good example is Catherine Grant’s ‘Touching the Film Object? Notes on the ‘Haptic’ in Videographical Film Studies’ (filmanalytical.blogspot.co.nz/2011/08/touching-film-object-notes-on-haptic-in.html)

2. Video essays that follow a traditional voice-over documentary format which leads viewers through specific arguments and towards direct conclusions. A good example is Arielle Bernstein and Serena Bramble’s ‘Female Sexual Agency in a World of Blurred Lines’ (blogs.indiewire.com/pressplay/video-essay-female-sexual-agency-in-a-world-of-blurred-lines)

Both types can be constructed with relative ease and are good tools for exploring and presenting research topics and/or class themes.

In this session I propose covering the basic principles of how to construct video essays with a particular emphasis on how consumer technologies such as smart phones can help produce original content to be included in the essays as well as how to use creative commons licenses in the production of video essays.

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