College of Arts & Humanities Calendar
University of Maryland, College Park
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Preserving and Remembering Black Heritages.
Material Culture/Visual Culture Working Group
Fall 2009 lecture series
Dr. Paul Mullins, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI)
"Race and Displacement: An Archaeology of Urban Renewal and the Color Line"
Monday, November 9, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
0142 Holzapfel Hall, Jewish Studies Seminar Room
The lecture series is co-sponsored by the Department of American Studies, Department of African American Studies, Department of Anthropology, and the Historic Preservation Program of the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
All lectures are free and open to the public. For more information: Dr. Mary Corbin Sies (marycorbinsies@yahoo.com) or Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson (pwforson@umd.edu).
This class will survey visual software geared towards the creation of new forms or narrative. In the age of YouTube it has become possible to tell a story with a very small budget, but this does not mean that the final product necessarily lacks quality. In this class students will learn how to tell a story from beginning to end using visual-editor programs and other visual software. Students will obtain their audiovisual materials not only form camcorders but from a wide range of sources, such as still images from cameras, web cams, or scanned objects, thus learning different ways of creating moving images. The production of a film from scratch will demand an effort to come up with creative solutions in order to articulate the story, trying to make the best of available resources. Students will receive instruction on the fundamentals of film narrative so that they become able to communicate a story and take their first steps into video creation.