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The Moving Image in Performance I
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An investigation into the moving human image on film and the creative potential for the performer in preparation for Performance Studies III. Students will have an opportunity to video a dance, movement, improvisational and acting techniques in order to gain insight into the demands the camera makes on the performer. This course will also examine the equipment and systems employed in the screen industry. The student will gain knowledge and insight into the works of notable dance and drama film makers.
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Lect: 1 hr./Lab: 2 hrs.
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201
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The Moving Image in Performance II
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A continuation of FPN 200, this course will survey the literature and film of the twentieth century. Students will view the works of dance and drama film makers including, Antonione, Cocteau, Fellini, Bergman, Welles and others, and will discuss how these great literary film makers might influence and shape their own film making endeavours. Students will have an opportunity to video a dance or drama project exploring these influences.
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Lect: 1 hr./Lab: 2 hrs.
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323
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Sound Design for Visual Media I
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This course will expand on basic sound theory and technology and their application within various media productions. Students will explore the conceptualization, production and post-production of sound. Through applied projects, students will further explore sound-image relationships. Material covered will include digital sound systems and techniques. The computer will be introduced as a musical instrument, sequencer and recorder.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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501
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Scenography I: Art Direction
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This studio course addresses the visual world of film, video, immersive events, and staged/directorial photography, by retrofitting locations to evoke fictional space. Script adaptations and analysis, character definition, set geography, visual and technical research, swatched palettes, technical drawing and maquettes will form the basis of project proposals that may complement concurrent production courses/thesis projects. Resource analysis, accounting and time management as determining factors in design will be emphasized, as well as key collaborative structures. (Formerly first half of FPN31AB)
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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502
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Directing Screen Performance - Basic Principles
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This workshop-style course is based on the premise that the only way to learn how to direct actors is to learn about acting. Students participate in acting exercises, improvisations and discussions on the acting process as it relates to the rehearsal and shooting of dramatic films, from the point of view of actors and directors. (Formerly first half of FPN32AB)
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This workshop course is designed for those students with a special interest in writing for film or television. The course deals with the stages of screenwriting in the dramatic form from the development of the outline to the script treatment. (Formerly first half of FPN33AB).
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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This course studies various forms of Microcinema in theory and practice. Microcinema is a flexible term that covers most types of low-budget independent short films inspired by the creative possibilities of new film or video technology, and types of low-budget independent film exhibition. It studies examples of Microcinema leading to the introduction of digital technology and the demythologization of the filmmaking process in the 1990s and the various DIY film cultures that have emerged since.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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This course introduces students to computer programming as a way of producing artworks, both still and moving, in 2 and 3 dimensions. Using the Processing programming language, students will develop software for generating and manipulating images and 3-dimensional objects in work that functions independently as well as in interactive contexts. This course places equal emphasis on technical work (code) and visual outcomes. No prior coding experience is required.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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519
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Soundscapes and Sonic Environments
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This course explores the various aspects of using, generating, and manipulating audio elements in sound and image-based works. It combines concepts and theories drawn from film, communication, cultural, and acoustic theory to study creative uses of sound in film, performance and video art, sound art, and other media such as video games. The course focuses particularly on the composition and manipulation of audio elements in order to create narrative and expressive works.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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531
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Cinematography and Lighting Design I
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This workshop is an exploration of cinematography, with a special focus on the stylistics of lighting as an essential aspect of cinematography. It centres on using lighting design not merely to establish a mood or time of day, but to support and further the theme or premise of the work.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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532
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Advanced Studio Lighting
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This is a course in studio lighting for photographers. Through practical studio projects within a workshop environment, students will be exposed to more sophisticated ideas about light and lighting in relation to a variety of subjects and techniques. The course is designed to help students expand and deepen their technical, conceptual and aesthetic insight while working with light through creative projects.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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FPN
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533
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Sound Design for Visual Media II
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In this post-production workshop, students will gain greater experience in the methods, systems and techniques employed in the creation and organization of events which will follow the fine-cut picture and dialogue phases of production. It deals with studio recording, sound editing, mixing and addresses the merger of film and video in post-production. Electronic sound creation and manipulation devices used in post-production will be examined.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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This is an advanced workshop in two-dimensional design problems with an emphasis on typography and layout and their interaction with and within imagery. Exercises are given in artwork preparation for combination with type, graphic and experimental design elements. The visual language of graphics is the principal focus of the course.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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FPN
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535
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Interaction Design
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From an applied design perspective, this course will allow advanced students to explore the new possibilities and challenges for visual and virtual media. Through the construction of new media objects, students will explore creative applications of communication models and paradigms, including the design implications of alternative modalities and practices with the changing cultures of presentation-reception.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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FPN
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536
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Media Business Studies
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This course will cover general business practices including marketing, finance, accounting, statutes and regulations particularly applicable to the successful operation of small media businesses. A case study approach will be used.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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537
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Immersive Imaging
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The objective of this course is to introduce students to the process of developing projects using a cross-platform approach to the fundamental principles of immersive imaging. The course offers an overview of the history of immersive imaging techniques such as stereography, augmented reality, and 360-degree cinema. This is a hands-on approach to production and post-production of immersive imaging utilizing sources from still photographs, motion graphics, and motion picture stereography.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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FPN
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538
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Visual Storytelling on the Web
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This course explores the development of authoring skills for web platforms and examines the rapidly growing field of web-based and interactive storytelling using photography, video, sound, and graphics. Students will produce original fiction and non-fiction work in a variety of formats, in part by assessing what formats best support their material. Topics covered include using and augmenting existing platforms, as well as developing web-based presentations.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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An investigation of uses of the human figure in traditional fine arts and contemporary graphic media. This workshop course will explore representation of the figure in two- and three-dimensional design contexts as well as in time-based and electronic forms. Participants will have the opportunity to combine studio and laboratory work with theoretical and historical studies.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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FPN
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541
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Digital Animation Concepts
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This course will introduce students to three-dimensional virtual environments, covering visualization of three-dimensional objects represented in a two-dimensional medium as well as navigation through a three-dimensional space. This course will explore the connections between constructed worlds, as well as the requirements and aesthetics of the medium used for delivery. Modelling and animation topics covered will include perspective, composition, movement, rhythm, timing, and imaging in a three-dimensional space. Particular attention will be paid to the aesthetics and other special characteristics of the delivery medium.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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542
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Design for Mobile
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This course allows students to explore ideas, applications, and projects in the context of interaction and data-driven work, specifically in the context of the mobile web. Students are encouraged to develop collaborative project ideas, and will spend the course expanding their toolsets in several areas, including database driven applications, connecting to data sources via APIs, multimedia, and geo-location.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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543
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Historical Processes Workshops
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This is a production course dealing with the use, design and construction of composite images using various media. Students will be encouraged to explore the use of captured, hand-rendered, and machine-fabricated images, in both static and temporal combinations. Various methods of image construction ranging from photographic to digital will be used. Selected traditional processes as well as experimental techniques will be discussed. The acceptance and use of these will depend on the sophistication and willingness of individuals to explore and take chances in imagery.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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FPN
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544
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Experimental Film Processes
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An exploration of alternatives to conventional ways of producing black and white and colour cinematographic images, including non-standard ways of generating cinematographic images and unorthodox means of transforming them. The exact content of the course will vary according to student interests and abilities.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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FPN
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545
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Multimedia Workshop
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This course is designed to be an independent, self-directed workshop where the student has the opportunity to experiment with a medium other than the primary medium of study. The student can elect to work in any one of the following media: film, video, multi-image and multi-projector slide/tape, 2D or 3D computer animation and interactive media. Students will propose projects in consultation with the instructor.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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FPN
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546
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Curation and Exhibition
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This course will combine lecture and practical experience to explore such topics as the storage, handling, illumination, protection, and all aspects of exhibition management of film, photography and video artifacts.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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FPN
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547
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Co-Operative Internship
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This course will give students the opportunity to work in professional production situations and settings which will provide them with professional experience with the medium/media of choice. Internship contacts will be the responsibility of the student. All internships are subject to departmental approval in advance.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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FPN
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600
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Film Arts and Visual Effects I
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This course deals with newly emerging and advanced digital film technologies. Guest professionals will be invited to give lectures and demonstrations. Field trips may be organized as well. These events may necessitate the scheduling of class meetings outside normal hours.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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FPN
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601
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Scenography II - Production Design
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This studio course models the development of production concepts from script analysis, identifying time-space requirements and research methodologies, to visual proposals for the material culture of constructed realities, whether live/immersive events, film, video, or staged/directorial photography. Students create a full portfolio presentation: the scenographic concept, including character design, performance space and all necessary properties, using renderings, technical drawing, maquettes and storyboards. The portfolio will stress effective communication, combining aesthetic expression, spatial dexterity and narrative logic. (Formerly second half of FPN31AB).
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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FPN
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602
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Directing Screen Performance - Advanced
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This workshop-style course puts into practice the fundamentals of acting and directing for the screen. Students will be expected to participate in acting and directing exercises for both sides of the camera using professional screenplays. (Formerly second half of FPN32AB).
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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This is an advanced workshop course designed to develop film or television writing skills. The course provides the opportunity to work through stages of screenwriting in the dramatic form from the development of the treatment to the finished shooting script. (Formerly second half of FPN33AB).
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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| Prerequisite: FPN 503
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FPN
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631
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Cinematography and Lighting Design II
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This course is a continuation of Cinematography and Lighting Design I. It will include exercises in studio lighting as well as an exploration of cinematographic and lighting design problems for location shooting, including colour balancing. The specific cinematographic and lighting aspects of TV commercials, documentaries and feature films will be explored.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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FPN
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632
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Advanced Studio Lighting II
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This is a course in specialized studio and location lighting for photographers. Through practical projects students will develop skills related to lighting as practised at a professional level. Students will be required to further their understanding of lighting equipment and techniques as well develop strong problem solving skills that will enable them to work with confidence in both the studio and location environment. The course is designed to allow students to advance their understanding of both the technical and aesthetic issues surrounding lighting as a crucial element in photographic practice.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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FPN
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633
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After Images: Topics in Contemporary Art
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This course will consider current gallery programming as a topical starting point for thematic contextualization and the production of visual work. Taught by faculty in the School of Image Arts and conducted in collaboration with visiting researchers and artists associated with the Ryerson Image Centre, this interdisciplinary course asks students to respond to current exhibitions through conceptually related readings, seminars, guest presentations and the production of visually related works.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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FPN
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634
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Graphic Design II
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This course will explore the diverse area of retail branding and advertising. Key issues such as product identification, brand positioning, and packaging solutions based on research of targeted audiences will be discussed. Innovative and creative approaches will be encouraged in a series of projects, which will address packaging identification and brand positioning based on research development. Students will work within a variety of design applications.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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FPN
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700
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Film Arts and Visual Effects II
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This is an advanced-level professional elective providing an exploration of contemporary visual effects techniques. Emphasis will be placed on the aesthetics and creation of successful visual effects. The history of visual effects and classic optical techniques will be covered as well as current digital techniques. Students will work individually and in groups to produce completed visual effects (VFX) shots and scenes. Students are required to have a working knowledge of compositing software prior to taking this course.
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Lab: 3 hrs.
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NPF
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188
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Masterpieces of Literature on Film
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This course is an introduction to the adaptation of significant works of literature into the film medium. Following a historical chronology, we will study representative texts of Elizabethan drama, the Gothic and Victorian novels, the novella, contemporary drama, and the short story, and the films into which these works have been adapted. In addition to issues of historical and cultural context, the course will address both thematic and formal elements of the various literary genres and how these translate into the film medium: narrative voice and perspective, dialogue, symbol, imagery, motif, and narrative structure will all be discussed.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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GPA Weight: 1.00
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NPF
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504
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Technology, Culture and Communication I
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Guided by the theory that meaning arises in culture, this course introduces the study of patterns of change in the media and communications technology within the context of visual culture. Particular attention will be paid to three inter-related themes of representation, power, and difference. (Formerly first half of NPF34AB).
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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NPF
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505
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Independent Cinema I
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The course explores cinema's origins in documentary practices and some of the major movements in documentary cinema, including the G.P.O. documentaries, the W.P.A. documentaries, the founding of Canada's National Film Board and the wartime documentaries of Great Britain, United States and Canada, the Free Cinema, cinéma-vérité, and the institutional documentary. Texts on all these movements, including declarations of important proponents of the various schools, will be examined. (Formerly first half of NPF35AB).
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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506
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Contemporary Art History
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This course provides an in-depth study of early twentieth-century art and aesthetics. Art historical movements and practices will be examined, in particular their effects on cultural institutions such as the museum. The concepts that constitute modernist thinking, including theories of the avant-garde, will be addressed. (Formerly first half of NPF36AB).
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This course surveys the influential work of the Frankfurt School of social and cultural theorists whose approach to mass media has provided the foundation for critical studies of contemporary culture. (Formerly first half of NPF37AB).
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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NPF
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548
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Modern Movements/Issues in Photography
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The major movements, figures and issues in twentieth-century photography are the focus of this seminar course, which will follow the evolution of the photographic medium over the century's span. The shift from pictorial to realist representation, the influences of surrealism, abstraction and modernism, the fragmentation of movements and styles in recent decades, and the development of new image-forming systems will all be examined. The course encourages individual exploration and research, and presupposes a basic knowledge of photographic history.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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NPF
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549
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Theories of Photography - Contemporary Topics
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As critical and theoretical developments increasingly affect the uses of, and attitudes towards, contemporary photography, an understanding of photographic theory provides a useful basis for interpreting both photographs and writings. This course will examine topics in photographic interpretation and critical methods, with a particular emphasis on texts and issues from contemporary literature on the visual arts.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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550
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Contemporary Media Practices: A Survey
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This course provides a survey and overview of new and evolving media forms. Students will be encouraged to apply innovative ideas, techniques and/or approaches studied in this course to their own visual productions. A range of suggested topics will be presented in class and developed via individual research and investigation.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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NPF
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551
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Interactivity and Networking
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Students studying the new media, and innovative aspects of film and photography, have available to them as an aspect of their production practice the relatively new communications discipline of interactivity, most typically by means of high-speed computer-controlled cable and wireless systems. Interactive and/or networked media and media systems will be traced from their beginnings up to the current state of ultra-high-speed computing and optical signal processing. By means of selected historical and contemporary case studies the interrelated cultural phenomena of interactivity and networking will be studied as both first-order paradigms of communicative-behavioural change and as applied creative and expressive modalities for new-media makers.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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NPF
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552
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The Political Economy of Culture
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Images are organized into presentations and exhibitions in books and periodicals, cinemas, concerts, plays and performances, at conferences and conventions, in galleries and museums, lectures and readings, on radio, television, closed-circuit systems and digital networks, in recordings and theatres. That is to say, images are produced and presented by an image industry. The course examines the image industry to understand its nature, functioning and operations, its relationship with image users and consumers, and its interaction with individual image-makers. The work of image-makers, and the image industry as a whole, takes place within a pluralistic cultural context of public- and private-sector entities which plan, organize, direct and control the image industry to produce high culture and mass media for audiences increasingly subject to market-place stratification and packaging.
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Lect: 3 hrs.
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Modern Movements in the Arts I
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This course examines relationships among contemporaneous developments in as broad a range of visual art, music, film photography, literature and dance as time allows. The course is mounted as two segments, offered in successive years; students may elect either one or both segments. The first segment explores the theory and practice of various modernist art movements and consists of the study of selected artistic developments that took place in the first half of the twentieth century. The movements examined will include some of the following: cubism, futurism, suprematism, constructivism, surrealism, abstract expressionism and post-painterly abstraction.
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Modern Movements in the Arts II
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This course examines relationships among contemporaneous developments in as broad a range of visual art, music, film, photography, literature and dance as time allows. The course is mounted as two segments, offered in successive years; students may elect either one or both segments. This segment explores the theory and practice of various post-modernist art developments that have taken place in the second half of the twentieth century. Here various post-modernist movements will be examined such as minimalism, intermedia, new image and photo-realist painting, and neo-romanticism. Also considered will be various stylistic and formal developments that have not consolidated under the banner of any particular movement, but have nonetheless furthered the general ideals of post-modernist practices.
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555
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Experimental Media
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In the past century, groups of artists have repeatedly called for new methods for the creation of artworks, to revitalize arts that had grown dreary, stale, and predictable. This course comprises workshops and seminars and explores the value of such proposals: means to be considered will be the use of aleatory methods, algorithmic procedures, interference structures (Schillinger methods), exquisite corpses (in words and pictures), practices based on the methods of dreams, and methods based on the deliberate rejection of all formations that can be rationally explained. Workshop projects utilizing these methods will be realized in different media. Seminars will explore both historical questions concerning the provenance of such practices and theoretical questions about the extent to which these practices have the potential their proponents claimed for them. A portion of the course will be given over to considering philosophical questions concerning the role of novelty in the arts.
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This course enables students to concentrate on specific aspects of the history and theory of film. Each semester will be devoted to a different topic, such as, national cinemas, alternative film practices, film genres and selected filmmakers. The relationship between the aesthetic features of given works and their cultural production context will be emphasized.
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558
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Topics and Issues in Design
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This course will consider the influential role of design in film, photography and new media from a historical and theoretical perspective. The specific content of the course may vary according to the context and the particular focus of the curriculum in any given year. Practical workshops may be offered if appropriate to the material being presented.
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559
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Advanced Topics in Curatorial Practices
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This course is an advanced level seminar taught by departmental faculty members or adjunct lecturers. Each semester will be devoted to special topics that become relevant due to the changing practices and needs of the department and students.
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560
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Adv Topics in Film History and Theory
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This course is an advanced level seminar taught by departmental faculty members, adjunct or visiting lecturers, (e.g., exchange faculty). Each semester will be devoted to special topics in response to the changing practices and needs of the department and students.
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561
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Adv Topics in New Media History and Theory
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This course is an advanced level seminar taught by departmental faculty members or adjunct and special visiting lecturers. Each semester will be devoted to special topics that become relevant due to the changing practices and needs of the department and students.
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562
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Media and Communication
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This course provides students with the opportunity to study the process and media of communication from a variety of theoretical perspectives provided by, for example: aesthetics, business, education, history, information theory, mass media studies, science, semiotics, the social sciences, technology.
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563
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Directors and Composers - 1940 to Present
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This is a professionally-related course open to all students with an interest in the evolution of music through its close relationship to film from 1940 to present. A number of key director/composer relationships throughout this period helped to shape and expand the stylistic approach and functions of music in film. Students will learn how the films of directors such as Fellini, Hitchcock, Spielberg and Burton were influenced by the composers with whom they collaborated. The soundtracks of films from various director/composers of the twentieth century will be studied.
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564
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Contemporary World Cinema
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The term World Cinema is defined for this course as any national cinema outside of North America and Europe. This course surveys contemporary world cinema since the 1990s, a new beginning for the international expansion of film, and will focus on films that usually fall outside the scope of conventional cinema studies courses. It aims to situate and explain the unique film production environments of various non-western countries within a regional and global context.
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565
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Contemporary Canadian Cinema
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This course introduces students to contemporary Canadian cinema by placing it in the historical context of its development to date. The course tracks the issues that have confronted various attempts to create and define a national cinema in Canada. These include cultural policies and institutions; the tension between a pan-Canadian concept of national cinema, regionalism, Québec national cinema and the cinemas of the First Nations; and the problem of a domestic/foreign film market inundated by Hollywood cinema.
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History of Animation
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This course offers a wide-ranging panorama of the first 100 years of animation, drawing upon a variety of national traditions, production methods and technological developments to contextualize study. The course examines competing imaginaries and production techniques. The course covers cel and digital animation, silhouette animation, puppetry, stop motion, rotoscoping, rotoshopping, computer-generated imaging and motion capture. Students will be exposed to a variety of critical discourses in order to engage with the animated works introduced each week.
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567
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Exhibition Practices in Contemporary Art
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The course integrates a general history of exhibition practice as it has evolved within the visual arts with a critical examination of the various activities, such as curatorial strategy, exhibition design, and audience development, which constitute the field of exhibition practice. Case studies of significant turning-point exhibitions provide students with the opportunity to focus their research on particular topics or issues of relevance to their own discipline or area of interest.
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568
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Analogue as Meaning
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This course will examine current debates in photo-based media and trace a shift in the meanings ascribed to images as related to analogue and digital processes. The course will examine how the development of digital imaging has shifted the value and status of the photographic image in recent years. This course will explore theoretical issues through readings and lectures and students will be required to undertake related visual projects.
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569
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Disaster Images: Memory and Response
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This course will examine the creative response of visual artists, photographers, filmmakers and new media artists to disaster, conflict and social crisis. Often allegorical, the work of artists will be seen to respond to crisis in modes not available to the fields of journalism or traditional documentary media. The course requires students to produce visual works and to prepare short discussion papers on the themes of disaster, history and memory.
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570
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Advertising and Consumer Culture
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This course provides critical skills for analysing advertising as texts, and for posing questions about the culture of consumption as an everyday practice that goes beyond advertisements. In addition to the phenomenon of advertising, the course addresses the pervasiveness of consuming as a social, cultural and economic activity. The approaches will be historical, theoretical, and political in scope and will cover a range of topics such as branding, identity, style, food, domesticity, sexuality, and recycling.
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571
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Introduction to Museum and Gallery Studies
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This course will familiarize the student with the day-to-day workings of art galleries and museums through making use of the practical example of the Ryerson Image Centre. The proximity to current exhibitions and research activities in the university gallery along with the opportunity to interact with the staff, guest curators, artists and scholars at the research centre will provide both practical and experiential insight into the gallery and museum contexts in which curators carry out their work.
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572
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Curatorial Practices in Toronto
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This course comprises an overview of current curatorial activities in Toronto public and private museums, galleries, and collections. It draws upon the diverse range of institutions and curatorial approaches involved in the public presentation and interpretation of historical and contemporary cultural artefacts. The course, which will be based on lectures by invited curators as well as field trips, will respond to and focus on recent and current exhibitions and curatorial activities.
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573
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Video Games: History, Theory, Culture
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This course offers an introduction to the history and theory of video games and their multifaceted fan cultures. The course addresses the military origins of video games, the concept of 'gameplay,' the ludology-narratology debate, transmedia storytelling, online gaming, casual gaming, game franchises, platform studies, and mimetic interfaces. The emphasis will be put on the medium itself, its makers, players, and fan cultures via case studies and insightful critical readings in video game studies.
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574
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Aboriginal Visual Culture in Canada
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The image of 'the Native' has historically been used in western popular culture and media as a device of social and political control designed to marginalize, romanticize and assimilate indigenous cultures. This course will examine the historical misrepresentation of Aboriginal people and culture, as well how Aboriginal artists and cultural producers have subverted, critiqued, challenged and changed the perception of Aboriginal people through the media of film and photography.
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604
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Technology, Culture and Communication II
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This advanced course will explore cultural expressions in a variety of media. It will emphasize the debate between the social and technological determination of media use and effects. These issues will be approached by surveying the major scholars in this realm and by examining case studies, principally Canadian. (Formerly second half of NPF34AB).
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605
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Independent Cinema II
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The course considers a range of practices that take place outside the framework of support offered by the major cinematic institutions - practices that are shaped by the creative drive of individual filmmakers, the so-called "personal film." The work of film artists from France, Germany, the United States, Britain and Canada will be included. Readings will consist largely of manifestos, letters and documents generated by the filmmakers who are the principal subjects of study. (Formerly second half of NPF35AB).
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606
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Contemporary Art Theory
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This course provides an introduction to the study of contemporary art theory. It examines theoretical developments within global systems of visual expression in the postmodern era. Subjectivity and representation, the impact of consumer culture on the art world, and digital modalities are among the issues the course addresses though close analysis of film, photography and new media artifacts. (Formerly second half of NPF36AB).
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This course will introduce students to the interdisciplinary field of cultural studies and will consider the application of contemporary cultural theory to various media texts and practices. (Formerly second half of NPF37AB).
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