SIBERIAN PEOPLE AND PLACES IN VISUAL DIMENSIONS

At the beginning of XXI century Siberia attracted substantial interest of authors. The Region's significance in the prospects for the whole development of Russia made the study of its historical experience extremely important. Since the late 1980s historical Siberian studies have been going through a transitional phase during which new concepts, methods and approaches have been proposed.
Students will analyze and compare two main concepts of Siberian history:
1) settlement of the region deemed as Russianization or Europeanization;
2) focus on unique characteristics of the territory that changed the earlier way of life and created a new geographical, economic and cultural environment (theories of "frontier", Eurasianism, "heartland" etc.).

This module consists of two lectures covering a wide range of issues related to the contemporary Siberian studies:

• major centers of research and sources on Siberian history in Russia and in the West;
• key concepts of Siberian history;
• basic issues (problems, topics) addressed by the researchers on Siberian history;
• historical experience and the future of Siberia as a part of Russia.

The module will introduce students to a poorly-known area of study and will help them to acquire new historic and historiographic skills, methods and approaches.

The course provides a description and presentation of contemporary Russian media space and Siberian media that are a part of it. We will talk about Russian press and television, radio and online media, note features that are common for world and federal development trends, as well as those features that are specific to the media in the Russian regions. Special attention will be paid to the functioning of media in the Siberian region from the point of view of their content, visual content, management strategies and audience preferences.

The main topics of the lectures:

• "rules of the game" based on which the modern Russian and Siberian media were created;
• typological analysis of various media, key stakeholders and holdings in the Russian media system, popular and characteristic subsystems and objects;
• what does the Siberian audience love: regional media landscape, the journalism of towns and villages as opposed to the journalism of cities;
• transformation of the country media system and its regional sub-systems under the influence of globalization and digitalization.

Life in a modern Siberian city has been dramatically changing over the last 10-15 years. The main drivers of these changes are the following: information technology, the Internet and mobile communications. The aim of the course is to get participants acquainted with media changes in the life of Siberian megacities in the digital era, to study features of cities' media reality in the national, regional and global context.

The course consists of a series of lectures, workshops and meetings with real newsmakers. As a part of the course participants walk around the city collecting information and creating an Internet page devoted to life in a Siberian city.

• Features of modern life and history of Siberian cities' development.
• News in the life of a modern city. The most popular themes.
• Requirements and standards of urban journalism.
• Interface of a city: GIS technologies and visual perception.
• Social Media in urban life.
• Headings, illustrations and multimedia in urban news.
• The future of digital cities in Siberia and the world.

The final stage of the course is practical work completed in small groups to create a thematic city news page as well as selection and placement of materials for it.

The purpose of this course is to teach participants to choose a topic and research facts for their own documentary projects, convey emotions and states of people in a shot, build a shot presenting a composition emphasizing what is going on in it. Of course, the development of such skills is supplemented by training with modern cameras, shooting in different conditions and processing photos received during shoots


The course will consist of a series of lectures and workshops that will introduce x participants to various aspects of creating a story in pictures, including the following:

• Basics of shooting and processing;
• Light in field photography;
• Composition in news photography;
• Time of shooting in news photography;
• Classification of documentary projects;
• Principles of building stories in pictures;
• Secrets of pictures for portfolio selection.

The final step of the course is to create individual documentary photo projects on a Siberian village under the guidance of the lecturer with a trip to picturesque places near Novosibirsk.

The aim of the course is to develop participants' skills to create their own video products: demo video, portrait video, documentary, etc. The course refers to both creative aspects of video creation (idea, concept, drama, scripting) and technical ones (video filming, assembling, post processing, etc.). Participants will learn to work with photo and video equipment, and the applications AdobePremier, AdobeAudition. Upon completing this course, participants will perform small practical projects in groups.

The main topics of lectures:

• Formats and genres of modern television production and documentaries.
• Dramaturgy and screenwriting skills. Art of storytelling.
• Basics of camera shooting.
• Basics of editing and post processing.