AANB11031U CANCELLED - Visual Anthropology in practice

The course is for students who wish to learn to use audiovisual methods and publication formats in relation to anthropological fieldwork and analysis, and who have no prior experience in working with film and visual media.

The participants will be introduced to video, sound and photography in relation to an analytical project, to thinking in images and sound, and to forming their audio-visual work in accordance to their analytical aim. We will investigate different audio-visual productions and analyze their anthropological qualities, and look closer at the principles of the recent format, WebDoc, an innovative interactive online format, integrating film, sound, photo and text.

The course in hands-on, meaning that the participants learn through a series of practical, commented exercises and by producing a real audio-visual product, using both film, sound, photo, graphics and text. The participants will work with the same general theme and, in groups of 2-3 students, produce independent sub-elements that will be integrated into a bigger collective WebDoc project about the general theme. The WebDoc will be published online at the end of the course. The general theme will be presented to the participants well before course start.

To achieve the projected results, the course is rather intense and time consuming, with four hours of course pr. week, and some reading and mainly pratical exercises and filming in between. For the practical work, the participants will be working in groups of two or three.