# The Videographic Essay *Keathley, Christian. The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound & Image. 2nd rev. and expanded ed. Kino-Agora. Caboose, 2019.* ## Description Practice-based guide to videographic film criticism and its core exercises, built around the principle that formal constraints ("parameters") generate critical/scholarly discoveries that writing alone cannot. ## Key Tags #video-essay #videographic-scholarship ## Key Passages %% quoted excerpts with page numbers, one per bullet %% - "quote" (p.##) ## Notes by Chapter ### Core Principles 1. One learns by doing 2. Formal parameters lead to content discoveries ### Exercises 1. **PechaKucha** - 10 video clips, 6-seconds each, one minute of continuous audio 2. **Voice-over** - one continuous section, < 3 minutes long, voiceover not overtly related to the video, incorporate some sound from segment 3. **Epigraph** - Video Sequence, quotation from critical text, altering video at least 2 ways, quotation onscreen, replace or significantly alter the soundtrack 4. **Multi-screen** - use clips from one or more other participants films, contain full-screen and multi-screen. 5. **Abstract Trailer** - features of scholarly abstract and motion picture trailer, no more than two minutes ## Becoming Videographic Critics: a Roundtable Conversation Jason Mittell, Maria Pramaggiore, Neepa Majumdar, Kristen Warner, Melanie Kohnen, Casey McCormick, Jaap Koojiman, Alan O'Leary, Derek Long, Patrick Keating references to **vidding** community p33 ### Dissolves of Passion: Materially Thinking through Editing in Videographic Compilation Catherine Grant ## Details %% A more comprehensive personal reflection and collection of relevant notes, details, references, links %% ### Concepts and Theories - [[Videographic Scholarship]] - %%this book is a core practical/pedagogical text for videographic criticism as a mode of scholarship%% ## References ### Cited In %% Pages in this vault (210 / 220 / 230) that draw on this source %%