🔵 🔴 🟡 Course description

The aim of the course is to present the introductory framework and characteristics of the creation of an audiovisual work with emphasis on the stages of i) idea conception, ii) production and iii) post production. The expanded concept of "audiovisual work" and its fluid boundaries with related art fields (video art, video installations, documentary, cinema, etc.) is presented theoretically (lectures) and practically (practice-based). The course attempts to introduce students to the audiovisual phenomenon, with an emphasis on the visuality of thought, through practical practice and creation of audiovisual works by learning the basic principles of moving image and sound processing.

After completing the course, students will be able to:

• Understand the concept of documentary, observation, the relationship between anthropology and ethnographic cinema, and recognize the basic tools for constructing audiovisual observation work.
• To recognize and artistically structure the stages of audiovisual production into a whole: 
  from idea to project.
• To understand the visuality of the dynamics of the image at the level of pre-processing.

🔵 🔴 🟡 Theory (2 hours)

1. HISTORICAL PERIODICALIZATION
2. ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHIC CINEMA
3. DOCUMENTARY, CINEMA VERITE, CAMERA-STYLE, CINEMA OF OBSERVATION
4. GREEK CINEMA: JOURNALISM
5. VIDEO ART AND HYBRIDITY. DIGITAL PERFORMANCE / PERFORMANCE AS AN AUDIOVISUAL WORK.
6. CREATION STAGES AND AUDIOVISUAL TRANSCRIPTION
7. THE CONCEPTS OF SHOT AND FRAME AND THEIR EXTENSIONS
8. EDITING AND ITS EXTENSIONS
9. NARRATIVE / NARRATIVENESS AND AUDIOVISUAL WHOLENESS. THE TEXT AND THE TITLE
10. TOOLS, TECHNIQUES AND CONCEPTUALIZATION. EXPLANATION OF TERMS IN AUDIOVISUAL CREATION
11. TIME & SPACE & LIGHT. SOUND & VISUAL EFFECTS IN THE POST-PRODUCTION STAGE. ORGANIZATION.
12. AV PROJECTS PRESENTATION / GUEST ARTIST

🔵 🔴 🟡 Workshop

1. Introduction to basic editing programs, basic editing and editing programs (OpenShot, VSDC, Movie Maker 10, Shotcut, DaVinci Resolve: 3 hours
2. On-site laboratory exercise: the shot, the frame: 2 hours
3. On-site interactive performance exercises and their audiovisual transcription: 2 hours
4. DIY: laboratory exercise: 2 hours
5. Laboratory exercise based on the "Kulesov experiment": the connection of image and meaning, the montage process. 1 hour
6. Storytelling, photo storytelling, exercise 1 hour 

Review language: Greek

• Face-to-face
• Support of the Learning process through the electronic platform e-class
• Use of slides, audiovisual examples, laboratory - practical exercises with relevant software

https://eclass.uop.gr/courses/PDA169/