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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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106
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Film Production: Silent Film
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This lecture/laboratory course introduces students in Film Studies to the art and craft of the medium - its history, main genres and techniques. The course focuses on how meaning is created through the moving image and specifically explores the relationship between form and content. Different creative methods are explored by making silent 16 mm films. Visualization and storytelling are introduced, studied and practiced. (Formerly the first half of MPF16A/B).
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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107
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Film Tools and Applications I
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This lecture and lab class introduces students to the concepts, tools, applications and foundations of filmmaking, including photographic imaging, exposure, cinematography, lab processes, lighting, film editing, and an introduction to digital editing. This course focuses on the visual aspects of silent film production. (Formerly the first half of MPF17A/B).
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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206
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Film Production: Sound Film
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This lecture/laboratory course focuses on how meaning is created through the moving image and specifically explores the relationship between form and content, image and sound. A variety of creative methods are explored by making films shot in 16 mm that are edited digitally. Project development, the basis of storytelling, script analysis, and sequencing techniques are introduced, studied and practiced. (Formerly the second half of MPF16A/B).
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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207
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Film Tools and Applications II
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This is a lecture and lab course on the foundations of sound recording and editing, as well as the application of sound in film. The course includes techniques of sound editing and mixing; photographic darkroom; and digital applications for image control and adjustment. Transfer from analogue to digital technology is also introduced. (Formerly the second half of MPF17A/B).
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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290
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Introduction to Film Studies
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This course provides an introduction to the field of film studies. The course emphasizes critical approaches to film aesthetics. Students will become familiar with film terminology, introductory methods of film analysis, and writing about the cinema.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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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 502 or MPF 32A/B; Prerequisite: MPF 23B
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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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302
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Business of Film II
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This course introduces students to film and television production in Canada. By focusing on the roles and responsibilities of the producer-developer, students learn organizational, legal, financial, creative and marketing aspects of the industry. Knowledge of funding policies and opportunities, revenue reporting, as well as performance and copyright regulations inform the making of film and television in the Canadian context and are key to preparation for work in the Canadian industry.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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This intermediate level course on the methods of fiction film and video production focuses on the practical considerations and creative strategies employed in the researching, planning, producing, directing, and final execution of stories for the screen. Students explore narrative storytelling techniques and production methods that mirror professional practice. (Formerly the first half of MPF22A/B).
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.50
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This course introduces students to theoretical and practical aspects of complex systems and equipment employed in production in studio and location shooting for film and video. It examines of the sequence of production and post-production processes including advanced digital and analogue equipment and systems employed therein. (Formerly the first half of MPF23A/B).
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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324
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Writing for Film I
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This course introduces students to basic writing and research techniques as they relate to the motion picture industry. Emphasis is placed on writing exercises for narrative films. (Formerly the first half of MPF24A/B).
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.00
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327
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Film History and Criticism to 1945
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This course surveys the history and criticism of the cinema from its origins to WWII. The course emphasizes film form, principally narrative, mise-en-scène, editing, and sound, and forges links between the film text and social, economic and technological developments. Topics include: identification, race and representation, women's cinema, documentary and the avant-garde. (Formerly the first half of MPF 27A/B).
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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This intermediate level course offers production techniques for film. The course explores the myriad approaches and styles suggested by the term "documentary" and ?narrative?, including the production processes and the roles of each crew member. Students work in teams to produce short assignments. (Formerly the second half of MPF22A/B).
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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This course introduces students to the theoretical and practical aspects of synchronous sound. Aspects of sound techniques include: double-system sound production; on-set production practices; issues in the synchronization of sound and picture; the foley studio, and mixing processes for film and television production. (Formerly the second half of MPF23A/B).
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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424
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Writing for Film II
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This is an intermediate level course aimed at developing writing and research skills for the screen. Students focus on writing proposals and outlines for fiction films. (Formerly the second half of MPF24AB).
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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427
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Film History and Criticism since 1945
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This course surveys the history and criticism of the cinema from the post-WWII period 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. Topics include: authorship, genre, ideology, national cinema, and alternative film practices. (Formerly the second half of MPF27AB).
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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This is an advanced theoretical and practical course on the principles of film and video production. Students may work on projects researched and written in second year. Different sections may focus on various aspects of the filmmaking process. (Formerly the first half of MPF32A/B).
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Lab: 4 hrs.
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| Prerequisites: (MPF 422 and MPF 423) or (MPF 22A/B and MPF 23A/B); Corequisite: MPF 300
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Course Weight: 1.50
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This course introduces students to classic film theory and to the vocabulary and methodology for film analysis. Film theories will be examined in light of the formal, cultural and ideological contexts that underlie them. (Formerly the first half of MPF35AB).
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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| Prerequisites: MPF 427 or MPF 27A/B
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Course Weight: 1.00
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This is an advanced course on the principles of fiction film and video production. Students work on original scripts with experienced actors to produce dramatic scenes for big and small screens. Modes of production that mirror the present-day film industry are emphasized. (Formerly the second half of MPF32A/B).
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Lab: 4 hrs.
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Course Weight: 1.50
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This course introduces students to contemporary film theory, including semiotics, psychoanalysis and reception studies, and to advanced methods of film analysis. (Formerly the second half of MPF35AB).
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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