writing with video spring 2008 instructor's blog
School of Art+Design provides educational resources consisting of laboratories, classrooms, presentation rooms, studios and equipment. Room 318 is the Checkout Window and is the first place to go with questions and to get equipment or make reservations.
Monday: 8:30am-11:00pm
Tuesday: 8:30am-11:00pm
Wednesday: 8:30am-11:00pm
Thursday 8:30am-11:00pm
Friday: 8:30am-4:00pm
Saturday: 1:00pm-5:00pm
Sunday: 1:00pm-11:00pm
Respond to the question, “What is writing?” Think about the ways writing is a part of your life and education. You may want to focus on how writing figures in your lif now, or go back to an earlier relationship with writing and text from childhood or adolescence. What does it mean to write? What tools do you use to write?
Post a response on your blog to one or all of the following questions concerning the excerpt from Vertov’s “The Man with a Movie Camera,” screened in class.
Who are the principle characters in this film? Who is the star?
What arguments, if any, seem to be made in this film?
What motifs did you recognize?