ALL FIVE SENSES: DIMENSIONAL WORLDS ON VIDEO
Ages 16-29
Fall 2022, Online
This online workshop will emphasize sensory experience and how to communicate it on video. Student fellows will immerse themselves in their environments--natural, urban, domestic, public--and perceive through dilated senses, dwelling in flavor, fragrance, and texture, as well as in sight and sound. In written exercises, still and moving images, and audio recordings, they’ll make direct contact with sources, not describing but recreating what they find, each assembling a treasury of discoveries: rustling fall leaves, a slick ice cube, ruffled animal fur, motorcycles revving, a sweat-soaked t-shirt, sliced onion sizzling in a pan. They’ll then select from and build on their observations to create short videos, narrative or non-narrative, gritty or poetic, that evoke fully dimensional worlds and bring them closer to viewers. Their work will be shared at a public exhibition and on the program website. Limited to 8 student fellows.
Jaki Hall has taught English at five Baltimore-area universities. She has worked as a TV reporter, talk-show host, and producer; published magazines; and is co-author of her family history, We Are the Wards!
Emmet Sheehan, a Baltimore City native, was part of the pilot program that launched the film department at Baltimore School for the Arts, and also trained at North Carolina School of the Arts Summer Intensive.
