A Sampling of Courses:
Film Form and Practice
In the contemporary media landscape, film as an idea and practice has entered into complex "hybrid" relations with a number of other media forms. Media Studies offers students a number of critical and creative ways of approaching this topic. In addition to seminars and workshops, which explore subjects and themes related to film history and aesthetics or offer a more interdisciplinary approach, the program offers Film Form and Practice.
This sequence of five courses (15 credits) provides students with the opportunity to explore issues specific to the theory and practice of filmmaking. In the first three classes, students engage with the conceptual and expressive parameters of film through a mixture of seminar-based discussions of aesthetics and hands-on experiments involving labs and workshops. In the final two courses, students take practical and theoretical skills a step further, developing a 15 to 20-minute final project to be shot on 16mm film or digital video. This project may, with permission and supervision of an advisor, be submitted as part of the student's thesis project.
Note: while the first three courses are open to all Media Studies students, only students who have declared the intention to complete the focus area in Film Form will be permitted to enroll in the last two classes. Students should indicate their intention by the second term of study.
Sequence of Courses: