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Explore cinema art and creative expression by making, exhibiting, and writing about short films. The course takes students through the essentials of motion picture medium in a series of exercises to examine framing, lighting, colour, focus, camera positioning, movement, editing and sound design. Students observe how space, time, motion, montage, and narrative structure make imagined worlds and capture real-life action in narrative, essay, and documentary films.

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Throughout the semester, students make short digital movies.  They complete basic exercises, personal films, and group projects that range from 1.5 to 10 minutes. Besides production plus post-production image and sound editing, work includes practice writing project proposals, scripts, storyboards, and festival publicity materials. Flipped classroom learning takes the form of peer critiques, tutorial presentation of movie rough cuts in the library's Innovation Centre, and reflection writing on the creative, social, and ethical implications of one's own work.

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Course Learning Outcomes: 

• Demonstrate the ability to creatively engage the motion picture medium.

• Show mastery of the essentials of film technique and language as well as their relatedness to art forms.

• Communicate effectively in groups to design and plan a film of fictional or non-fictional mode.

• Produce a film and exhibit it in a festival setting that takes into account the needs of the target audience and the community it represents.