MFA Thesis Post Production
Dr. Samantha Krukowski
Tuesdays, 2-6pm, CMB Studio 4C
Instructor: Samantha Krukowski
Office: UA9 2.112K
Office hours: Mondays 2-4 and by appointment
Phone: 217-6756 (cell)
e-mail / URL: samantha@rasa.net / http://www.rasa.net
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The Course
This class is designed to facilitate the development, production and completion of MFA thesis projects. The course consists of weekly workshops, many of which will be discussions of work-in-progress. On days you are scheduled to present your work, you will lead the discussion and direct the analysis and critique of your project (in addition to documenting your work-in-progress, it may be valuable for you to bring in external supporting materials, to speak about your project in relationship to another student’s work, to talk around your film rather than directly to it.) Other workshops will include field trips, investigations into creative process, and reading-based discussions and screenings.
Students will set their own production goals at semester start and will be evaluated based on how well they meet these pre-established goals by the end of the semester. Completion of the readings, contribution of material and participation in discussions is essential. The following projects are also required:
1. Questionnaire
To be handed out the first day of class, due February 27.
Important: investment in the document(s), inventiveness of response, extension / examination of work-in-progress, poetic quality, materiality.
2. Film Book
A sketchbook with blank pages (purchased or made by you) in which you collect inspiration, materials, images, textures, debris, doodles, notes that relate to your work. This book should function to materialize your script, to bring it out of the script format and into the physical and dimensional world. It should also function to ground your film, to bring its worlds into a tactile, compact and portable space. The book is due for review in class on April 24.Students are expected to attend all classes given that the class meeting time is once weekly. Only one absence will be allowed, and any absence after the first will result in a one-letter grade deduction (not including emergency situations).