STUDY PROGRAMME
Film & Animation

AFAM CODE
ABPR22

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Set design 

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Set design for cinema 

CREDITS
6

APPROACH
Theoretical/project based

This course guides the students into the world of set design for cinema.

The students will learn new types of staging for artistic performances, events, music videos, advertisement and tv shows, with a focus on serial and cinematographic production. Over the course, the students learn set design through theoretical lessons, projects and laboratories. In this way, they learn how to analyse the most significant scenarios of our contemporary cultural production, and how to devise their personal projects with full methodological awareness. They are hence granted the right approach to the professional world.

• This course is made of a single module of 6 CFA credits = 6 ECTS

Successful students will be able to:

• Decode elements and languages of performing arts and their cultural context.

• Analyse complex issues related to the world of performing arts, and identify, among different project solutions, the most suitable and efficient one.

• Elaborate suitable and efficient creative solutions based on a solid methodology, supported by research and analysis.

The course introduces the students to the field of set design, highlighting the strengths of an ever-evolving methodology of instruction that has an eye on new forms of representation in the audiovisual world.

This is a theoretical/project based course.

Over the course, the students will carry out the following didactic activities, which may vary depending on the themes 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

• Creation of a multimedia installation

• Oral exam

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

Books and recommended or required resources may be specified by the professor.