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Description:
While looking at online platforms like YouTube or Vimeo you might have come across videos that could be described as video essays. A video essay is a piece of video content
that, much like a written essay, advances an argument. Video essays take advantage of the structure and language of film to create a thesis statement. While the general
concept has its roots in academia, it has grown dramatically in popularity with the beginning of online video sharing platforms.
As a relatively new media form, video essays have yet to conform to any structuralguidelines. At first glance a video essay could be described as an online video which cuts
together footage from one or more films in order to reveal new insights about them. Butwhen looking further you realise, that it doesn’t always have to be about the original
content. Footage from different sources can also be used to illustrate an argument that is not directly concerned with the meanings or intensions the original material is referring
to. This is also what makes this form of analytic framework interesting. There aren’t any rules, or rather there is no firm set of such rules. Video essayists tend to make up the
rules as they go along.
In the course we want to take the concept of a video essay and translate it to an immersive environment. How can we work with found footage like pictures, film, sound,
3D objects or text for example in a virtual space, created with the help of VR-glasses like the HTC Vive ? How can we illustrate an argument in a 3-dimensional world based on
found footage? The practical part will be an Introduction to the game engine Unity 3D and an introduction to working with HTC Vive VR-glasses. Furthermore, students will
work on their individual immersive essays that will be presented at the end of the semester.
Registration:
Send an e-mail until October 8th to joerg.brinkmann@uni-weimar.de. Please include the following information:
Subject/title of your e-mail:
Immersive Essays
Content:
– your full name
– program and semester
– matriculation number
– describe in a few sentences why you want to take the course
– If you have any material about your creative work online or digitally available, please
send links or attach files to the email
Criteria for passing:
In order to successfully
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