Introduction to Video
MIT OpenCourseWare offers this studio course on video recording and editing as a medium for personal expression. Students learn camera and editing basics through a sequence of hands-on assignments covering narrative, abstract, documentary, and essay forms, with themes of self-exploration, performance, and social critique running through the work. The course builds toward a final project centered on personal storytelling, asking students to shape raw footage into a finished aesthetic form. Materials include assignment sheets and course structure from MIT's Program in Art, Culture, and Technology, licensed under Creative Commons for free use. There is no instructor video lecture series; instead the course is organized around practice, critique, and iterative production, making it suited to a student who wants to learn video as a creative tool rather than just a technical skill.