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The Media Lab is organising a daylong workshop on Sound Design on Tuesday, 21 February, 2012, 11 am onwards. Eminent sound practitioners and teachers will be present. The list of speakers include:
The workshop will take place at the Media Lab, third floor, Gandhi Bhavan, Jadavpur University. All are welcome.
The students of the Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University are participationg in a three month long workshop cum film making process organised by the Media Lab. The workshop is divided in two parts.
For the first phase they have documented the walls of Kolkata and surrounding areas for a month. They completed this phase using their own available camera, ranging from mobile phone cameras to DSLRs, without the help of any artificial lighting or set up.
For the second phase they are combined in various groups and shooting at various locations equipped with cameras and personnel from the Media Lab. The footage will then be edited at the Media Lab to produce multiple films.
They are also being trained to use Final Cut Pro throughout the workshop. They will be editing their own films assisted by Media Lab personnel.
We are giving the Journal of Moving Image page ( www.jmionline.org ) a new look. It will provide better accessibility and will become more user friendly. We are also uploading the first three volumes which have been recently digitised. Meanwhile the page will remain unavailable for a very short period. Please bear with us. Inconvenience regreted.
9th December, 2011
Venue: Loreto College Auditorium, Loreto College, Kolkata
The Media Lab, Jadavpur University, in collaboration with the Department of Film Studies, Loreto College, is holding a workshop at Loreto College, Kolkata on the 9th of December, 2011 as a part of its Outreach Programme. The workshop aims to explore new cheaper ways of image and sound making, re-thinking the film making processes and engaging students to think beyond the dominant practices in visual culture. The first workshop of this series was held at Suri Vidyasagar College, Birbhum, where students were introduced to new media practices and theories over a period of five days. As the aim of this one day workshop, the students will be encouraged to make video recordings of their everyday surroundings over a period of a month with frequent interaction with the Media Lab personnel and build an archive of footages that shall forge a cultural spatiality of the city.
Programme:
10:30 - 11:30 Introduction
11:30 - 01:00 Demonstration of works related to the project (Screenings, Illustrations etc.)
01:00 - 01:45 Lunch
02:00 - 03:00 Technique and tools in the digital era
03:00 - 04:00 Familiarisation with web based archives and exhibition platforms
04:00 - 05:00 Initiation of the archiving project
Department of Film Studies, JU and The Media Lab organized an international colloquium on Teaching Film Studies in India on 24th and 25th October, 2011 at Anita Banerjee Memorial Hall, UG Arts Building, JU Main Campus. The colloquium had panel discussions, structured conversations and a few individual presentations by eminent scholars from various parts of India and abroad. The Media Lab at Film Studies, JU, has undertaken an initiative of organizing a series of colloquia and workshops around the questions of pedagogy, curricular reform and skill development. A survey of the West Bengal teaching institutions in the area of film and media was undertaken in 2009; a 4-day workshop on 'Teaching Film Studies' with the teachers of West Bengal undergraduate colleges was held in July, 2011, and a 5 day workshop with students of Suri Vidyasagar College, Birbhum, was held on ‘Learning through Images’ between August 23 and 27, 2011. This colloquium was the third in the series. The proceedings of the colloquium were taped and will be published. A detailed schedule of the event as follows:
24th October (Day 1) :
25th October (Day 2) :
This workshop was the first of its kind where the resource personnel from the Media Lab visited a college with the necessary equipment. It aimed to explore new cheaper ways of image and sound making, re-thinking the process and engaging students to think beyond the dominant practices. Suri Vidyasagar College situated at Suri, Birbhum is removed from the usual metropolitan atmosphere. Students were not exposed to the new possibilities the digital platforms have offered in the recent times. The workshop tried to inspire them to come up with novel ideas and methods that are improvised on the field and invoked unconventional ways of understanding their everyday relationship with image and sound.
This programme was attended by teachers of Film Studies, Mass Communication and other related disciplines which have a major component of Film Studies in their curriculum. The Media Lab had conducted a survey on teaching of Film Studies in West Bengal in 2008-2009, followed by a workshop on 'Teaching of Film Studies in West Bengal' on 21 February, 2009. The present orientation programme worked on the lines of the recommendations and views put forward by the survey. It addressed questions of methods, tools and resources for teaching film, which are constantly being re-shaped through the proliferation of new materials on various web platforms, archives and other digital media.