STUDY PROGRAMME
Creative Media Production

AFAM CODE
ABTEC43

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Audiovisual languages and techniques

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Linear audiovisuals

CREDITS
12

APPROACH
Theoretical/project based

The course aims at providing basic understanding of materials and their processing, which enables the students to choose and use suitable materials in the design-specific planning and prototyping phases.

This course is made of a single module of 12 CFA credits.

Successful students will be able to:

→ Develop a subject for one o more short films

→ Manage production

→ Implement and manage post-production

→ Understand limits and opportunities of projects targeted at an international audience

→ Contemporary non-fiction

→ Authorial contemporary non-fiction

→ Production

→ In-camera editing

→ Longtake

→ Portrait

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 is based on the final projects presentation and may include:

→ Oral exam

→ Short films

→ Assessed revisions or mid-term tests

The assessment criteria refer to the quality of contents, methodological consistency of the projects, creativity and originality.

→ Nichols B. (2017) Introduction to Documentary, Indiana UP, Bloomington (IN).

Further bibliographic recommendations may be provided by the professors during the course. A lot of the referenced material, together with other in-depth study material, can be consulted online in MyNaba, in the Library section.