Advanced Projects in the Visual Arts: Personal Narrative

A photo of people sitting at a mall bench with people walking by.

The ubiquitous American shopping mall, source of many personal narratives. (Photo © openphoto.net.)

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MIT Course Number

4.366

As Taught In

Spring 2004

Level

Undergraduate

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Course Description

Course Features

Course Highlights

This advanced video class contains a complete set of assignments, and some of the best student projects from the class in the projects section.

Course Description

This advanced video class serves goes into greater depth on the topics covered in 4.351 , Introduction to Video. It also will explore the nature and function of narrative in cinema and video through exercises and screenings culminating in a final project. Starting with a brief introduction to the basic principles of classical narrative cinema, we will proceed to explore strategies designed to test the elements of narrative: story trajectory, character development, verisimilitude, time-space continuity, viewer identification, suspension of disbelief, and closure.

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Joe Gibbons. 4.366 Advanced Projects in the Visual Arts: Personal Narrative. Spring 2004. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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