Distinctive Practice

Maharashtra Mahavidyalaya Campus Film Society, Nilanga

7.3: Institutional Distinctiveness

7.3.1: Portray the performance of the Institution in one area distinctive to its priority and thrust

Maharashtra Mahavidyalaya campus Film Society, Nilanga

1. The Context:

Along with the three genres of literature, film is being studied the world over as its fourth genre. As film is an ever changing, highly vibrant and the most sensitive form of art, it has incorporated the technical innovations and changing tastes of the audience in order to make itself the mostly accessed and deeply reached mode of expression. In the era of unimaginable speed of data transfer and widest ever viewership, the need for its sincere academic study is now more than ever significant. In the era of wider reach and huge consumption of cinema and e-contents, there are larger chances that the students may be lured away to the hazardous e-contents and addictive behaviours. Therefore, we decided to train the students in comprehension, appreciation and serious academic study of films.

2. Difficulties encountered
3. The attitude of students towards film was highly as an entertainment hence it needed to be oriented towards film as art and film as a genre of literary studies
4. The best films with academic, human and moral values were not available with us.
5. For screening of films, an LCD projector, screen and good audio system was required.
6. The directors, film technicians and film researchers were not available in the vicinity.
7. To introduce the genres of shorts films, documentary films, and feature films to the students.

Solutions

1. Films appreciation lectures were organized in collaboration with Federation of Film Societies of India, Mumbai.
2. An MoU was signed between Abhijat Film Society Latur for overcoming the problems of availability of experts
3. The films needed were borrowed from FFSI, Mumbai.
4. The necessary infrastructure was developed in the college campus

Activities organized

Campus Film Society Activity

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Outcomes:

1. The students were trained in the film appreciation courses
2. Various types of films like documentary films, short films and feature films were introduced to the students.
3. The students have written film reviews and film appreciative articles.
4. The students showed batter understanding of films in their oral feedback
5. The students have taken active participation in discussions of films.