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2023/2024

Audiovisual Narrative

Code: 105019 ECTS Credits: 12
Degree Type Year Semester
2501928 Audiovisual Communication OB 1 A

Contact

Name:
Ludovico Longhi
Email:
ludovico.longhi@uab.cat

Teaching groups languages

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Teachers

Angel Custodio Gomez Gonzalez
Pau Lluis Gumiel

External teachers

substitut

Prerequisites

Basic skills of video editor (movie-maker or I-movie), sound editor (audacity) and Internet tools like Google.


Objectives and Contextualisation

The aim of the subject is to approach different narrative theories and to encourage students to make audiovisual contents based on specific narrative models, focusing in dramaturgy and expressive nature of the audiovisual languages.


Competences

  • Apply narrative and presentation skills specific to audiovisual content.
  • Disseminate the area's knowledge and innovations.
  • Manage time effectively.
  • Show leadership, negotiation and team-working capacity, as well as problem-solving skills.
  • Use one's imagination with flexibility, originality and ease.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Apply theoretical principles to boost the effectiveness of audiovisual narratives.
  2. Be familiar with the narrative and dramatic forms of other media to adapt them to audiovisual narration.
  3. Develop aesthetic sensitivity to create audiovisual products.
  4. Disseminate the area's knowledge and innovations.
  5. Manage time effectively.
  6. Promote innovations in the development of audiovisual narratives.
  7. Show leadership, negotiation and team-working capacity, as well as problem-solving skills.
  8. Use one's imagination with flexibility, originality and ease.

Content

  1. Audiovisual storytelling and typologies
  2. Point of view, perspective and focalization
  3. Theme and plot
  4. The narrator
  5. Characters and roles
  6. Narrative structures (sounds and audiovisuals)
  7. Approach to technical and literary script
  8. Transmedia storytelling

The calendar detailed with the content of the different sessions will be presented on the day of presentation of the subject. It will be uploaded to the Virtual Campus, where students will also be able to access the detailed description of the exercises and practices and any necessary information for the proper follow-up of the subject.


Methodology

The academic sessions will be organized around different activities (lectures, auditions, viewings, problems, practices, etc.) for the students to learn by doingThe proposed teaching methodology and evaluation activities may undergo some modifications depending on the health authorities' attendance restrictions.

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.


Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Lecture 30 1.2 1, 8, 2, 4, 6
Practices and project 75 3 1, 8, 2, 7, 3, 5, 6
Type: Supervised      
Exam 6 0.24 1, 8, 6
Type: Autonomous      
Autonomous workload 174 6.96 1, 8, 2, 3, 5, 6

Assessment

The assessment activities consist of:
1) the individual writing of an audiovisual self-portrait inspired by the style of a cinematographic author agreed with the teacher.
2) the realisation, in a team (5 students), of a remake of a sequence chosen from a list of films, prior to the introduction of synchronisation (late 1920s)
3) The realisation of a critical path of a video game (individual) using some narrative element belonging to the remake of point 2.
4) the realisation in a team (5 students), of a trailer (project) of a hypothetical feature film inspired by the remake of point 2.
5) theoretical exam on the bibliographic and videographic contents contemplated throughout the course.

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Practices 60% on the final grade 3 0.12 1, 8, 7, 3, 4, 5, 6
Project 20% on the final grade 7.5 0.3 1, 8, 2, 7, 3, 4, 5, 6
Theory Exam 20% on the final grade 4.5 0.18 1, 8, 2

Bibliography


  • Sánchez Navarro, Jordi (2006). Narrativa audiovisual. Barcelona: UOC

    Canet, Fernando.; Prósper Ribes, Josep (2009). Narrativa audiovisual: estrategias y recursos. Madrid: Síntesis

    García Jiménez, Jesús (1993). Narrativa audiovisual. Madrid: Catedra

    Talens Carmona, Jenaro; Zunzunegui, Santos; Aumont, Jacques … [et al.] (1998). Historia general del cine: Vol. 1: Orígenes del cine. -- Vol. 2: EE.UU. (1908-1915). -- Vol. 3: Europa 1908-1918. -- Vol. 4: América (1915-1928). Madrid: Catedra

    Bordwell, David.; Thompson, Kristin (1995). El Arte cinematográfico: una introducción. Barcelona: Paidos

    The bibliographic materials will be complemented by a list of compulsory screenings indicated at the beginning of the course.


Software

Audacity, DaVinci