Lecture/discussion—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Experimental
approaches to the making of film and video in the age of digital
technologies. Opportunities for independent producers arising
from new media. Instruction in technical, conceptual and creative
skills for taking a project from idea to fruition. GE credit: VL
Julie Wyman’s 2012 documentary film STRONG! (75 min, HD)
continues her visual investigation of cultural and media
constructions of health, weight, gender and body image.
STRONG! premiered to sold-out houses and standing
ovations at Silverdocs 2012, screened in theaters nationally, and
was broadcast nationally as the closing film of the tenth season
of PBS’s Emmy award-winning series Independent
Lens, where it won the series’ Audience Award.
