Photography and Cinema
Keywords |
Classification |
Keyword |
OFICIAL |
Visual Arts |
Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S
Cycles of Study/Courses
Acronym |
No. of Students |
Study Plan |
Curricular Years |
Credits UCN |
Credits ECTS |
Contact hours |
Total Time |
MM |
24 |
Syllabus |
1 |
- |
6 |
45 |
162 |
2 |
Teaching Staff - Responsibilities
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
— Acquire historical and technical knowledge about visual devices (still image and moving image);
— Ability to record photographs knowing how to apply notions of depth of field and shutter speed;
— Knowing how to identify the main movements in the history of photography and their relationship with contemporaneity;
— Understand the relationships between images, the photographic narrative and its relationships with the cinematographic context;
— Deepen critical thinking about image in the artistic context;
— Expand notions of visual literacy from image analysis in contemporary society;
— Exploring photography as an extended communication element in artistic projects (still image and moving image);
— Deepen techniques for recording and editing photographic and cinematographic images;
— Acquire a visual discourse that presents itself as a field of communication experiences related to the image (still image and moving image)
Learning outcomes and competences
— Analyze the image beyond its representation;
— Investigate and validate the image as a contemporary unit of literacy;
— Recognize the importance of the image at an academic, cultural and professional level;
— Understand the importance of visual narratives around contemporary projects;
— Identify and define communication problems that encourage them to interfere in contemporary society;
— Search for visual, photographic and cinematographic solutions, using less obvious methodologies;
— Combine personal interests with scientific areas of an artistic nature;
— Recognize the importance of image on a social, cultural and professional level.
Working method
Presencial
Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)
Not applied.
Program
— Know how cameras work (depth of field and shutter speed);
— History of photography;
— Time in the photographic record (accelerating and decelerating);
— Photography and its relationship with contemporaneity;
— Sequences: notions of series and photographic narrative;
— Contaminations between still image and moving image (artistic context);
— Time in the cinematographic record (accelerating and decelerating).
Mandatory literature
Ansel Adams;
The Camera. ISBN: 0-8212-2184-1
António Sena;
História da imagem fotográfica em Portugal. ISBN: ISBN: 972-0-06265-7
Barbara London; Video/Art: The First Fifty Years, Phaidon Press, 2020. ISBN: 071487759X
David Campany;
The Cinematic, The MIT Press, 2007. ISBN: 0262532883
David Parkinson; History of Film (World of Art), Thames & Hudson, 2012. ISBN: 9780500204108
Gerry Badger;
The Genius of photography. ISBN: 978-1-84400-363-1
Joel Meyerowitz; Seeing Things: A Kid's Guide to Looking at Photographs, Aperture, 2016. ISBN: 1597113158
Mark Cousins ;
Biografia do Filme, Plátano Editora, 2005. ISBN: 9789727703258
Susan Sontag;
On photography. ISBN: 978-0-140-05397-5
Terence Marner;
A Realização Cinematográfica (Re-Edição), Edições 70, 1980. ISBN: 9789724414133
Complementary Bibliography
Gilles Deleuze;
A Imagem-Movimento (re-edição), Documenta, 2016. ISBN: 9789898566973
Giséle Freund;
Fotografia e sociedade
João Bénard da Costa;
Os Filmes da minha vida. ISBN: 978-972-37-1234-6
Liz Wells;
The Photography Reader. ISBN: ISBN: 0-415-30703-1
Philippe Dubois;
O acto fotográfico. . ISBN: ISBN: 972-699-280-X
Roland Barthes;
A câmara clara. ISBN: 978-972-44-1349-5
Rosalind Krauss;
O Fotográfico. ISBN: ISBN: 84-252-1858-6
Vilém Flusser;
Ensaio sobre a fotografia.
Walter Benjamin;
Sobre arte, técnica, linguagem e política. ISBN: ISBN: 972-708-1770
Wheeler Winston Dixon; A Short History of Film, Rutgers University Pres, 2018. ISBN: 0813595126
Teaching methods and learning activities
Classes will take place in two distinct modules: the first will correspond to a theoretical exposition; the second to a more practical model.
Theoretical presentation: Understand the importance of relationships between images. Presentation, analysis and discussion of photographic projects organized in narrative and thematic series. Creation of a visual repertoire from technological procedures related to the preparation, formatting and production of a visual narrative.
Practical component: knowing how to correctly use all the items in the program after completing two projects presented during the semester. Project 01: Still image and Project 02: Image in motion.
keywords
Humanities > Arts > Visual arts > Film studies
Humanities > Arts > Visual arts > Photography
Evaluation Type
Distributed evaluation without final exam
Assessment Components
Designation |
Weight (%) |
Participação presencial |
25,00 |
Trabalho de campo |
25,00 |
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico |
15,00 |
Trabalho prático ou de projeto |
35,00 |
Total: |
100,00 |
Amount of time allocated to each course unit
Designation |
Time (hours) |
Elaboração de projeto |
40,00 |
Frequência das aulas |
30,00 |
Trabalho de campo |
15,00 |
Trabalho de investigação |
15,00 |
Total: |
100,00 |
Eligibility for exams
— Attendance;
— Monitoring of projects;
— Participation;
— Work presentation;
— Development of exercises and projects;
— Scientific curiosity;
— Technological domain;
— Use of appropriate technical concepts and language.
Calculation formula of final grade
Project 01 — 20%
Deadline for submission of Project 01 — 5%
Project 02 — 20%
Project completion time 02 — 5%
Project Monitoring — 20%
Attendance, Participation and Presentation — 10%
Scientific Curiosity — 10%
Technological Domain — 10%
Projects that have not been duly followed during the semester will not be evaluated.
Students who do not attend at least 65% of classes will not be evaluated.