Filming Music

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

Concert films, portraits of musicians, visualizations of sound, and filmed records of musical happenings all heighten our attention to the relationship between the moving image and music. This course is held at the intersection of these time-based arts, providing students with theoretical and practical approaches to the music document(ary). Key readings and screenings of essential films will provide characteristics and histories of portraying music in film. In practice, students will acquire basic filmmaking skills as they learn to document a musical event and produce their own short music-centered film. Our focused praxis and analysis also offer students an opportunity to reflect upon the broader, under-researched interactions between sound and the moving image.