Techniques of Ethnographic Film Making

Welcome to the massive open online course on Techniques of Ethnographic Film Making. It is for B.A. Sociology Hons under Under Choice Based Credit System.Course Objectives:This course focuses on doing sociology and social anthropology through forms other than the written, in particular, the oral, aural, and the visual. It introduces students to film techniques as a form and method of description and argument and enables a comparison between film and the written mode as ethnography.Taking up this course, students will acquire the following skills -• Draw on anthropological and social science approaches to ethnographic filmmaking• Think critically about the relationship between form and content in ethnographic and documentary practice• Master the technical skills needed to produce ethnographic accounts used in research• Critically view and review film material.

Week 1 1. Documentary filmmaking and the anthropological eye 2. Introduction to FILM AS AN Ethnography and Ethnographic research   Week 2 3. Index, Icon, Symbol, Codes 4. Filmmaker and the filmed ‐ Gender, Class, Ethnicity   Week 3 5. Construction of meaning through images 6. The question of ethics in anthropological filmmaking   Week4 7. Storytelling in a Documentary 8. Writing Narration 9. Production process - Requirements & Stages   Week5 10. Crew Designations, Responsibilities 11. Types of video Camera and their Selection Ready 12. Videography 1   Week 6 13. Videography 2 14. Honing Your Interview Skills 15. Properties of Light and the Study of Lighting Situations Ready   Week 7 16. Lighting Techniques Ready 17. Speak Into Me 18. Practical on Sync Sound: Recording of Vocals & Music   Week 8 19. Shooting with new media device 20. Open resource/ tools for editing and storing your data 21. Open resource/ tools for editing and storing your data