STUDY PROGRAMME
Media Design and Multimedia Arts

AFAM CODE
ABTEC40

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Multimedia design

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Multimedia languages

CREDITS
8

APPROACH
Theoretical/project based

This course provides theoretical-practical skills to understand the basic aspects of the audio-visual language evolution. It also provides the cognitive knowledge for the analysis of audio-visual texts starting from the basics of semiotic reading and psychoanalysis of cinema. A further goal is to bring the students into group production dynamics.

The programme grants 8 credits, divided as follows:

• EDITING BASICS: 4 CFA

• INTRODUCTION TO FILM DIRECTION: 4 CFA

Successful students will be able to:

• Know the elements of audio-visual languages

• Edit audio visual projects according to the desired narrative logic

• Properly use the technical terminology of audio visual editing

• Know different direction approaches

• Transform a story into audio visual language

• Create simple scenes with suitable style

EDITING BASICS:

• Basic audio-visual grammar articulations

• Audio-visual narration

• Creative and communicative aspects

• Technical aspects

• Use of video editing software

INTRODUCTION TO FILM DIRECTION:

• Relations between the audience and the author

• Scenes and sequences

• Movements and perspectives

• Film direction

This is a theoretical/project based course.

The 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:

• Papers and oral discussions

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

• Bazin A. (2004) What Is Cinema? Vol 1 and 2, University of California Press.

• Rabiger M. (2007) Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics, Focal Press.

RECOMMENDED:

• Aumont, J., Bergala, A., Vernet, M. (1999) Aesthetic of film, University of Texas.

• Dancyger, K. (2015) The Technique of Film and Video Editing: History, Theory, and Practice, Routledge.

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

• Stam R. (1999) Film Theory: An Introduction, Blackwell Pub.

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.