DEPARTMENT OF DRAMA, NARRATIVE FILMMAKING
Summer Session II, beginning Thursday, July 15th
1 - 3:15 PM, Clemons 201
Alexandria Searls, instructor
Narrative Filmmaking will explore how story impacts narrative, documentary, and experimental filmmaking as students make their own films in mini-DV (cameras provided). You'll learn filmmaking and editing with Final Cut, and you'll also learn how to use Flash, a web movie program, for storyboarding, animation, and posting films to the web. Students will work individually and in groups. As a class project, we'll shoot a short 16mm film. No prerequisites. Mini-DV tapes will be only additional expense to course fee.
Alexandria Searls is a filmmaker whose experimental documentary 'Party and Protest' won the 2004 Best Film category at the U.S. Super-8 and Digital Video Festival. Her narratives and documentaries have shown at the Virginia Film Festival, the Maryland Film Festival, Ms. Films, the Rosebud Film Festival (award winner 2004) and the James River Film Festival, among others.
Questions? Call the instructor at 295-4302, email alexsearls@earthlink.net , or come to the first class on Thursday!