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MPF
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16A/B
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Film Production
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This lecture/laboratory course introduces students to the creative methods used in the making of films (16mm and Digital video). Project development, the basis of storytelling, script analysis, visualization and sequencing techniques will be introduced, studied and practiced.
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Lab: 4 hrs.
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| Corequisite: MPF 17A/B
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Course Weight: 2.00
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Billing Units: 1/1
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MPF
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17A/B
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Tools and Applications
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This laboratory class introduces students to the tools, applications and foundations of filmmaking, including photographic and electronic imaging, digital applications, editing, lighting and sound recording. An initial exploration of the technologies of film production will be followed by studies of sound and image formation, recording, and sequencing.
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Lab: 2 hrs.
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| Corequisite: MPF 16A/B
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Course Weight: 2.00
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Billing Units: 1/1
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MPF
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22A/B
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Film Production
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This course introduces students to specific modes of production for fiction and documentary film and video. Students will explore narrative storytelling techniques and specific documentary approaches. The practical considerations and creative strategies employed in the researching, planning, producing, directing, and final execution of documentaries and stories for the screen will be studied.
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Lab: 4 hrs.
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| Corequisites: MPF 23A/B and MPF 24A/B, Prerequisite: MPF 16A/B
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Course Weight: 3.00
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Billing Units: 1/1
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This course introduces students to theoretical and practical aspects of complex systems and equipment employed in production in both studio and location situations for film and video. It will include an examination of the entire sequence of production and post-production processes and the equipment and systems employed therein, including synchronous and non-synchronous systems in both shooting and post-production.
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Lect: 2 hrs.
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| Corequisites: MPF 22A/B, MPF 24A/B, Prerequisite: MPF 17A/B
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Course Weight: 2.00
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Billing Units: 1/1
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MPF
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24A/B
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Writing for Film
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This course will introduce the students to basic writing and research techniques as they relate to film/video making and to the Canadian screen industry. Emphasis will be placed on writing proposals and outlines for narrative and non-fiction films.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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| Corequisites: MPF 22A/B and MPF 23A/B
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Course Weight: 2.00
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Billing Units: 1/1
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MPF
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27A/B
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Film History and Criticism
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This course surveys the history and criticism of the cinema from its origins to the present. It traces major film movements and filmmakers, as well as the critical analysis that was produced to grapple with important issues of representation and context. The course emphasizes film form, principally sound, editing, mise-en-scène and narrative, and forges links between the film text and social, economic and technological developments. Topics include: identification, authorship,
genre, ideology, race and representation, women's cinema, documentary, the avant-garde and other alternative film practices.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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| Prerequisites: MPC 13A/B and MPC 201
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Course Weight: 2.00
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Billing Units: 1/1
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MPF
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32A/B
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Film Production
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This course introduces students to more advanced theoretical and practical principles of documentary and fiction film and video production. Projects will be undertaken in team configurations and for the fiction assignment, film students will have an opportunity to work together with actors to produce dramatic scenes for film and video screens.
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Lab: 4hrs.
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| Corequisite: MPF 300, Prerequisites: MPF 22A/B and MPF 23A/B
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Course Weight: 2.00
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Billing Units: 1/1
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This course introduces students to contemporary film theory and to an advanced vocabulary and methodology for film analysis. The influence of structuralism, semiotics, psychoanalysis and postmodernism on film discourse will be stressed. Film theories and strategies will be examined in light of the formal, cultural and ideological contexts that underlie them.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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| Prerequisite: MPF 27A/B
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Course Weight: 2.00
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Billing Units: 1/1
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This course will provide students with the opportunity to apply the theories, concepts, techniques, technologies, and practices of making films and videos learned in previous years and to synthesize them in a senior project of a prescribed length. Individuals and groups will work in close regular consultation with the instructor and/or an advisor through all stages of production. Alternatively, they may undertake, with the approval of the instructor, concentrated work of a specified nature in relation to production.
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Lab: 6 hrs.
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| Prerequisites: MPF 32A/B and MPF 300 and MPF 301
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Course Weight: 3.00
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Billing Units: 2/2
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This course deals with advanced production and post-production systems, methods and equipment. Topics include studio lighting, camera movement, film stocks, and related technologies in the film and video lab. There will also be an examination of colour correction, film/video interfaces, digital systems and ongoing techno-logical developments in film, audio and video.
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Lect: 2 hrs.
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| Corequisite: MPF 32A/B, Prerequisite: MPF 23A/B
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Course Weight: 1.00
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Billing Units: 1
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This course helps students to become aware of the business aspects of film and video production and includes documentary, commercial and narrative productions. It deals with those areas of pre-production, production and post-production which most involve the producer directly. Promotion, distribution and exhibition of product will be dealt with.
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Lect: 2 hrs.
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| Prerequisite: MPF 22A/B
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Course Weight: 1.00
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