Intro to Film ＆ Media Studies · Film (Sch Of The Arts)
I learned a lot about the various elements of film, especially with regards to film history, criticism and theory.
In this course, we learned about a vast variety of subjects within the film world, including cinematography, sound, and auteurism among others. Skills learned revolve around being able to analyze elements of a film and their function within the piece.
We learned a little bit about everything that's involved in Film and Media Studies, accompanied by weekly screenings of films that exuded each week's topic.
General proficiency in film terminology and concepts.
I learned about editing, sound, avant garde, aeturship, spectatorship, perspective, digital media, cinema and what it means, and about genre theory.
Prof. Gates' class is a wonderful introduction to film studies, with great screenings and in depth discussions on all essential aspects of film. Most of the instruction focused on how to interpret, analyse, understand, and criticize films and compare them to each other.
This was such a great first impression of the deep and intriguing world of film. Dr. King set me up with the tools to completely transform the moviegoing experience––a vast array of technical and theoretical strategies to dissect and pick apart films into pieces. Also, we get to watch a movie every week in the theater- classroom we have lectures in. What else could you ever want in a course? 10000/10.
As it is an intro course I learned a lot of new film terminology, techniques, and practices. I watched films I hadn't seen before and I learned how to critique and analyze film.
In course we learned everything from Lumiere to Speed Racer. Practical film techniques were covered and used to help us further understand some theories. Wonderful selection of movies to supplement the course and an overall great environment to be in.
Learned about the basic categories of film making and began to learn more complex theoretical things later into the semester.