Photography and Cinema

Code:

MM0043

Acronym:

FC

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Visual Arts

Instance: 2009/2010 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Multimedia

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MM	11	Syllabus	1	-	7,5	67	203

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Students are encouraged to produce creative projects and objects that will lead to the familiarisation with the photographic and cinematographic language, which will be assimilated during the critical viewing of photography, films and reference films extracts.
The formulation of formal and coherent choices for those objects will be the central subjects of discussion during the development of individual projects.

Program

Students will analyse, under professor’s supervision, some pictures, films and film extracts – from different ages, genres and origins. Thus, students will acquire critical tools and resources which will enable them to design, execute and finish the objects of their portfolios.
Simultaneously students will be familiar with some remarkable and problematic seasons of the past and future of cinema and photography.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Students should actively participate in class, by giving presentations on specific works and participate in the discussion of colleagues’ and professor’s presentations. Presentations will be defined and scheduled in the first class.
Before the development of the portfolio, students will be asked to carry out preparatory assignments.
Students have to produce a portfolio composed by 12 pictures and a short film (4 to 10 minutes) complemented by visual documents, which explain the inspiration to both elements.
The portfolio should also comprise a short report/balance on the stages, difficulties and discoveries related to the creative and critical process.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	39,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

1- Regular attendance/ Participation/ Answers to the exercises: 35%
2- Meeting deadlines: 5%
3- Portfolio: 60% - divided into the following components
a- written version: 5%
b- achievement of the objective: 5%
c- interpretation of the challenge: 5%
d- project’s adequacy to the object: 5%
e- ability to answer to the critics: 5%
f- video: 10%
g- photography: 10%
h- appendices: 5%
i- final report: 10%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Students have to produce a portfolio composed by 12 pictures and a short film (4 to 10 minutes) complemented by visual documents, which explain the inspiration to both elements.
The portfolio should also comprise a short report/balance on the stages, difficulties and discoveries related to the creative and critical process.
- The portfolio may be composed by a single project, about a single theme, based on a short film and a set of pictures OR on 2 different projects for each format;
- The short film have to be handed in on a DVD disc without menus;
- The pictures have to be handed in on a CD in order to be assessed. However, they should also be delivered in a printed form, so that they can be exhibited at the faculty – students choose the format.
- Projects are continuously assessed, being all stages supervised.
- As far as the short film planning is concerned, it is stressed the importance of planning the visual part and the soundtrack.
- The pictures may be accompanied by a text, in which is explained why they were chosen (See: Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida).