Admission requirements
This course can only be taken by students who have received prior permission from the MA admissions committee to make use of audiovisual means during their fieldwork, and to present the findings of their MA-research project in a short film (or an audiovisual production of another kind), as well as a research paper.
Course description
This course focuses on the analysis of audiovisual data after fieldwork, and its use, in one form or the other, for the kind of stories that anthropologists want to tell. Ethnographic fieldwork results in a great variety of data: written notes, photographs, audio recordings and video recordings. What are strategies to analyse these various sources? How can the audiovisual data that has been collected be used, to contribute to the communication of research findings? What ‘formats’ is the material suited for, and given those limitations and possibilities, what choices do you make? If one is editing a video film, how can that film relate to the paper that you are writing as a part of your final project? How do readings of clips or edited films intended by you as a researcher relate to readings by the people researched, and to readings by the (other) intended and unintended audiences that may get to know the output of your ethnographic research? This course combines theory with hands on practice. During the tutorials students primarily work with the audiovisual data that they have collected during their MA fieldwork.
Course Objectives
To critically explore the possibilities offered by audiovisual materials to tell stories that are based on ethnographic fieldwork.
Timetable
Seminar – room 0A28:
- Monday March 3rd 2014, 11-13 h
- Tuesdays March 4th-25th 2014, 15-17 h
- Wednesday April 2nd 2014, 10-17 h
Tutorial:
Mondays:- March 3rd: 13-17h room 1A03
- March 10th: 9-17h room SA05
- March 17th: 9-13h room SA07 13-17h room 1A03
- March 24th: 9-17h room SA05
Wednesdays: - March 5th: 9-13h room 3B08, 13-17h room 5B16
- March 12th: 9-13h room 3B06, 13-17h room 1A03
- March 19th: 9-13h room 3B08, 13-17h room SA05
- March 26th: 9-13h room 6C03, 13-17h room SA07
Attendance of all seminar sessions and tutorials is compulsory.
Mode of instruction
5 ECTS = 140 hours of study
4 seminar sessions (x 2 hours) = 32 sbu
8 tutorials (x 8 hrs) = 64 sbu
literature ca. 200 pages/ film viewings ca. 10 hrs = 44 sbu
Students will need to procure a personal portable hard disk in order to work with their audiovisual data (costs approximately € 200,=).
Assessment method
3 written assignments + 2 audiovisual assignments (based on course readings and films, as well as data collected during the MA fieldwork)
3 written assignments (assessment of the data, outline of the audiovisual project, outline of the textual component);
1 audiovisual assignments (draft edit of a core sequence)
Blackboard
This course uses blackboard.
Reading list
to be announced
Registration
Only on Blackboard.
Contact Information
Dr. E de Maaker: maaker@fsw.leidenuniv.nl