Student Projects
Law students have created awareness and knowledge mobilization videos as part of the Visual Advocacy / Law and Film course at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa, Civil Law section.
Students had to conduct at least one interview with a stakeholder from the legal community. They then had to implement the visual advocacy concepts and techniques studied in the course to produce a short awareness or knowledge mobilization video.
Student Visual Posts
Discover visual advocacy projects produced by law students.
Visual Advocacy / Law and Film (DRC 4731): A Different Look at the Law
Digital technologies have transformed the way we interact with and communicate our ideas.
To keep up with these transformations, tomorrow’s lawyers will need access to a wide range of sensory tools to persuade, enlighten and captivate their audiences, which, specifically, means shifting the focus from the page to the image. To this end, the course DRC4731 – Visual advocacy and film law is enabling students from the Civil Law Section of the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law to see law through the lens of a camera.
Designed by the Civil Law Section’s Lawyer/Filmmaker Étienne Trépanier, this course covers the basics of working behind the camera, including lighting, sound and digital editing, as well as the principles of screenwriting and legal notions relating to the production of audiovisual material (copyright, image rights, etc.).
During the semester-long course, student teams are asked to conduct interviews with legal practitioners and then apply the conceptual and technical lessons covered in class to the production of short documentaries that are eventually featured on the Jurivision online platform.
This section presents films produced by students of the visual advocacy course since its first offering in winter 2021.
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