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LA B-11. The Art of Film. Course website: http://isites.harvard.edu/k6869 Professor David Rodowick Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 3-4 pm or by appointment M-06 Sever Hall (4 th floor) Telephone: 66076 Email: rodowick@fas.harvard.edu Head T eaching Fellow
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LA B-11. The Art of Film Course website: http://isites.harvard.edu/k6869 Professor David Rodowick Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 3-4 pm or by appointment M-06 Sever Hall (4th floor) Telephone: 66076 Email: rodowick@fas.harvard.edu Head Teaching Fellow • Allyson Field <afield@fas.harvard.edu>
What this course is about . . . • How is a film created? • The techniques and mechanics of film production: what directors, screenwriters, cinematographers, art designers, and sound designers do and how they create visual art. • How does film work formally and stylistically? • How do films tell stories through images and sounds? • What are films materials, forms, and techniques? • How doe we identify, describe, analyze, and write about film style? • Thinking about ourselves as spectators. • How do we read films? • Self-examination of what we do when we make sense of visual and acoustic images.
LA B-11. The Art of Film • We all “go to the movies to have a good time. But that is exactly my point: what we want from the movies is not just distraction diversion or passing amusement. We want satisfaction” (New York Times, 5 June 2005). • A. O. Scott (class of ‘88)