FMSA 300: Film + Screen Arts Core

This Film + Screen Arts core studio allows for varying degrees of concentration and hybridity in a range of media practices, themes and genres. This is a revolving topics course in which individual and collaborative projects enable students to identify appropriate practices, and synthesize these approaches using film, digital cinema, audio, online, web-based, gallery-oriented, interactive, immersive XR/VR, and performative modalities in the contexts of film and screen arts. Thematic topics are offered regularly. Foundational media skills from previous semesters are the basis for innovative and creative risk-taking that embraces specific media processes and expands terrain between film and screen arts disciplines. Students take concurrent courses that support advanced/specialized, technical/conceptual proficiencies and explorations. Some of the project work is collaborative, developing students' multidisciplinary, team-working and project management skills. Students are expected to ensure that at least one of their third year core studio experiences involves a solo project. Students continue to refine their critical vocabulary, analytical and technical skills required for preparation for fourth year capstone productions. Students will have regular critiques, and a tight timetable in which the projects must evolve from concept to completion.

Each section of this course runs with a different topic. See here.

This course is subject to priority rules; see here.