VIDEO ESSAYS GUIDE
Introductory Guide To Video Essays
Launch Event
The Introductory Guide to Video Essays was officially launched on 14 December 2020 at an online event organised by Learning on Screen in collaboration with SOAS, University of London. The launch event brought together pioneering scholars and educators engaging with video essays as scholarly video graphic works and creative assessment method, who contributed to the guide and presented each of its sections.
The event was live streamed from the SOAS Film Society Facebook channel and attracted over 300 people from all over the world, including the UK, US, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, India, Mexico, Senegal, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey, among others.
Full event
Event Sessions
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Prof. Tracy-Cox Stanton, Professor of Cinema Studies at Savannah College of Art and Design, talks about the value of video essays.
For more information and guidance, see Section 1 – Introduction to Video Essays: Studying and Researching Film Through Film
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Dr Charlotte Crofts, Associate Professor Filmmaking at UWE (Bristol) and Editor in Chief of Screenworks, talks about finding coherence across journals.
For more information and guidance, see Section 2 – Finding Coherence across Journals: Guidelines and Criteria for Making, Curating, and Publishing Video Essays
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Dr Shane O’Sullivan, Senior Lecturer in Filmmaking at Kingston University and Curator of Archives for Education, talks about how to make video essays.
For more information and guidance, see Section 3 – How to Make Video Essays
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Prof. Christian Keathley, Professor of Film and Media Culture at Middlebury College and founding co-editor of [in]Transition, talks about the language of video essays.
For more information and guidance, see Section 3 – How to Make Video Essays
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Bartolomeo Meletti, Education and Research Executive at Learning on Screen, talks about copyright considerations for video essays.
For more information and guidance, see Section 4 – Copyright Considerations
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Will DiGravio, Host of The Video Essay Podcast and editorial board member of Screenworks, talks about disseminating video essays.
For more information and guidance, see Section 5 – Dissemination: Journals
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Dr. Estrella Sendra, Senior Teaching Fellow in Film and Screen Studies at SOAS, University of London, and Alix Lafosse, Journalist and Secretary of the Head Office at Guiti News, talk about their experience with video essays at SOAS.
For more information and guidance, see Section 6 – Case Study: Video Essays as Creative Assessment Method at SOAS, University of London
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