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Hi everybody. 
Look at me, it's your professor!

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I'm not just a faceless set of text 
on a screen. I'm actually a real person.

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I'm Professor Keller and I'm going to be
your instructor for Cinema 120

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Film Aesthetics, this fall semester.

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So, a little bit about me and a little bit
about the course.

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I actually grew up in the Santa Clarita
Valley.

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I went to Meadows Elementary School,
Placerita Jr. High, Hart High School

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And COC. I'm actually an alumnus in
addition to being a professor here

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A member of the faculty. After my time at 
COC, I went to UC Berkeley, where I got a

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B.A. in Film Studies and then I went to
Chapman University, down in Orange County

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to get an M.F.A. in Film and Television
Producing. So what do those degrees mean?

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Well, the B.A. is in the analytical side
of filmmaking and the M.F.A. is in

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the production side of filmmaking,
so I have background in both

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But what we're really going to focus on
today, this semester, not today, is the

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analytical side because that's what film
aesthetics is. We're going to spend the

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next sixteen weeks looking at the various
parts of the filmmaking process

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both individually and how they come
together to create a final product.

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These include narrative, which is the
writing process.

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Mise-en-scene, which is essentially a
fancy term for production design.

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Cinematography, the lighting, the
camerawork, all of that sort of stuff.

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Acting, pretty self explanatory.

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Editing, how do you take all that raw 
material you've shot and cut it together

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in such a way that it creates mood,
emotion, and tone, etc.

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And lastly, sound, which, to most, seems
like a fairly simple process but is

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actually, potentially, the most
complicated and complex part

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of the filmmaking process.

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The goal is, by the end of the semester
for you to have a better understanding

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of these individual processes and elements
and how they come together and, in the end

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what I really want is for you to become
a more active viewer, somebody who tries

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to understand the intent of the artist,
to understand their meaning, and interact

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with the art itself, because that's what
it's there for. You're meant to interact

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with it, in addition to enjoying it.

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So, we've got a lot of fun movies ahead.
We've got a lot of interesting ground to

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cover, and I hope you're as excited as I 
am for all of it.

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Alright, let's get going. It's going to be
a good semester.