STUDY PROGRAMME
Film & Animation

AFAM CODE
ABTEC43

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Audiovisual languages and techniques 

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Editing techniques 

CREDITS
4

APPROACH
Theoretical/project based

This course goes in-depth on the students' understanding and expertise in editing and post-production. The work on images will be the starting point to go in-depth on the semiotic implications of the related different forms of realism and belief capability, to develop well-structured considerations on the potential, testimonial and ethical limits of images while they ask their viewers to believe what they show. The potential of editing is investigated in its emotional and rhythmic form, and in its re-enactment of space and time. The course also fosters the students' practical professional skills in managing and designing the editing and postproduction phases of audio-visual projects.

This teaching is made of a single module of 4 CFA = 4 ECTS

Successful students will be able to:

• Know and correctly use visual effects compositing techniques

• Design the creation of digital visual effects

• Implement artistic choices in the creation of digital visual effects

• Manage complex editing projects

• History of visual effects

• Post-production workflow

• Advanced editing techniques

This is a theoretical/project based course.

During the course, the students will carry out the following didactic activities, which may vary depending on the projects that will be developed:

• Front lectures

• Use of tutorials, videos or other media tools

• Exercises and revisions

• Workshops

• Individual or group projects

• Individual study or research

Assessment criteria may include:

Graded exercises with a final oral exam

Practical exam

Further details on the specific tests will be given by each professor.

Brinkmann, R. (2008) The Art and Science of Digital Compositing: Techniques for Visual Effects, Animation and Motion Graphics, 2nd Edition, Morgan Kaufmann.

Van Hurkman, A. (2014) Color Correction Handbook: Professional Techniques for Video and Cinema, 2nd Edition, Peachpit Press.

A lot of the referenced material, together with other in-depth study material, can be consulted online in MyNaba, in the Library section.

More books and other recommended or required resources may be specified by the professor.