Film Artistic

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students are expected to be able to: explain the importance of production design for filmmaking.; explain job description of artistic department in filmmaking process; evaluate film artistic elements of different films.

Topics

This course is a continuation from Introduction to Film Art, that focuses on mise-en-scéne elements or anything appears on the screen: décor, properties, lighting, costume, and make up, all job descriptions and the production planning related to those subdivision. Differences between management systems, Hollywood styles and its alternatives, is one central issue among others.

It is a fundamental film theory class that focuses on film artistic and production design. Combination of book reviews, class discussion and various film screenings brings students to be able to synthesize different artistic elements into unity, in a film production design at the end of the semester.

Prerequisite : FM111 – Introduction of Film Art