STUDY PROGRAMME
Media Design and Multimedia Arts

AFAM CODE
ABTEC43

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Audio visual languages and techniques

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Linear audiovisuals

CREDITS
6

APPROACH
Theoretical/project based

This course covers different expressive languages used in linear audio-visual products, as well as their related methodological tools as they are essential to the critical analysis and further implementation in the projects the students will develop over the subsequent months. The course provides the cognitive knowledge for the analysis of audio-visual texts starting from the basics of semiotic reading and psychoanalysis of cinema. Also, the main techniques of audio-visual filming will be covered.

The programme grants 6 credits, divided as follows:

• LINEAR AUDIOVISUALS: 3 CFA

• CAMERA OPERATION TECHNIQUES: 4 CFA

Successful students will be able to:

• Identify and classify the different kinds of linear audiovisual documents

• Perform a critical analysis of how the constituting elements contribute to fruition and communication

• Design a linear audio-visual product connecting all the components that act in the creative and productive process

• Film simple movie scenes

• Realise a basic lighting of a set

LINEAR AUDIOVISUALS:

• Relations between the audience and the author

• Immersivity, mimesis, enunciation, diegesis

• Space and time

• Minimum units and their film enunciation

• Realism in cinema

• Post-cinema

• Introduction to film analysis

CAMERA OPERATION TECHNIQUES:

• Audio-visual language codes

• Character creation

• Photography

• Lighting

• Camera movements

This is a theoretical/project based course.

Students will take part in the following activities, which may vary depending on the development of different projects:

• Classroom lectures

• Use of tutorials, videos or other media tools

• Exercises and revisions

• Workshops

• Individual or group projects

• Individual or group study and research

Assessment tools may include:

• Graded exercises

• Completion of a project

• Oral exam

Further details about the exams will be provided by the professors.

The final grade will result from the weighted average of the programme modules.

MANDATORY:

• Monaco, J. (2009) How to read a film (4th Edition), Oxford University Press.

RECOMMENDED:

• Field, S. (2005) Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting, Delta.

• McKee, R. (1999) Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting, Methuen Publishing.

• Vogler, C. (2007) The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, Michael Wiese Productions.

Many of the recommended sources, together with additional material, are also available online on MyNaba, in the Library section.

Books and resources might be requested or suggested by the professors.