UDIST300 Interview As Medium

This course will draw upon the principles and practices of investigative journalism to help students develop fresh insight and a process of inquiry to deepen their work with the aural and visual components of narrative. Students will find working in the medium of "interview" a new way to consider and appreciate narrative content in art by contesting the spoken word as the ultimate "truth". How sound, voice and image contribute to the narrative and create an experience that becomes "factual" is key to this study and students will work individually and collaboratively to employ multimedia, word, image and text to confront and create with issues of social, personal, political, historical situations and cultural function. The seminar explores how, when, and why art provokes a response from simultaneously engaged senses, and evaluates how repurposing/remediation may introduce unexpected content and provoke a reinterpretation of context. The purpose of this study is to provide new resources and enhanced opportunities for students to develop new approaches to creative questions. Supportive material on media convergence and guests who use new and traditional technologies in their practice to engage audiences interactively will expand student understanding about the intersections of media and culture. Students will assess and develop techniques from the art of ancient and modern conversation, contemporary cultural forms of interrogation, reportage and documentary presentation as a basis for developing original works. The studio component for the class may include the development of the student's work into professional broadcast segments.

Interdisciplinary Studios extend a student's cross-school experience from Core Studio up into his or her upper division years. 3 units of Interdisciplinary Studio are required of all majors and must be completed in the junior or senior year.