# Introduction to Video and Related Media (Spring 2020)

**Source**: https://act.mit.edu/academics/courses/introduction-to-video-and-related-media-3/
**Parent**: https://act.mit.edu/academics/courses/

Instructor
:   Georgie Friedman

Units
:   3-3-6 u, 3-3-3/3-3-6 g

Lab Fee
:   $ 75

Credit
:   hass-a

Schedule
:   TTh 9:30am-12:30pm

Location
:   e15-070

Examines the technical and conceptual variables and strategies inherent in contemporary video art practice. Analyzes structural concepts of time, space, perspective, and sound within the art form. Building upon the historical legacy of film and other time-based image media, students render self-exploration, performance, social critique, and manipulation of raw experience into an aesthetic form. Emphasizes practical knowledge of lighting, video capturing and editing, and montage. Includes presentation and critique of student work, technical workshops, screenings, and readings with the objective of a final creative project.

*This class is open to undergraduate and graduate students.  Additional work is required at the graduate level, which includes a variable unit option.*

*Students taking a production-based ACT class will be charged a $75 lab fee after the add date on a semester basis. The fee covers the cost of student production materials used as part of the class. SMACT graduate students are exempt from the lab fee.*

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