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Film Studies Courses

MPF 016 MPF 017 MPF 021 MPF 022 MPF 023 MPF 024 MPF 026 MPF 032 MPF 035 MPF 042 MPF 300 MPF 301

MPF 016 Film Studies: Film Production Lab: 3 hrs.

This course introduces students in the Film Studies option to their chosen medium. The course deals with how meaning is created through the moving image, and specifically explores the relationship between form and content. A series of exercises will enable students to become familiar with the basic principles of filmmaking: the principles of continuity, screen space and time, editing, projection and exhibition will all be studied.

Corequisite: MPF 017.

MPF 017 Film Studies: Tools and Applications Lab: 3 hrs.

This lecture/laboratory course introduces students to the tools, applications and creative methods used in the making and interpreting of film, as well as to photographic and electronic imaging, digital applications and sound recording. The emphasis is on cross-disciplinary instruction in an inter-media working environment. An initial exploration of the technologies of film production will be followed by study of other imaging systems and photographic applications, as well as sound and image formation, recording and sequencing.

Corequisite: MPF 016.

MPF 021 Film Studies: History of Film Lect: 3 hrs.

This course examines cinema from its origins to the present. Topics include silent and sound film, the studio system in the U.S.A., contributions of Western European film and notable filmmakers and films in the evolution of film art and practice. Alternate film styles and techniques will be examined against the background of the monolithic development of the narrative film and both will be considered within the context of the political, cultural and economic issues which animated their times.

Prerequisite: MPC 013.

MPF 022 Film Studies: Film Production Lab: 4 hrs.

This course introduces students to more complex theoretical and practical principles of film and video production. The relationship between actuality and its filmic representation will be examined. The role and application of sound in film and video will be studied. Through more advanced practical applications the course will explore the audience/film maker nexus, storytelling techniques, the relationship of form to content, montage strategies and the different modes of production.

Course Weight: 3.00. Prerequisites: MPC 011, MPC 012. Corequisite: MPF 023.

MPF 023 Film Studies: Technology Lect: 2 hrs.

This course introduces students to theoretical and practical aspects of complex systems and equipment employed in production in both studio and location situations. It will include an examination of the entire sequence of production and post-production processes and the equipment and systems employed therein, including synchronous and non-synchronous systems in both shooting and post-production.

Prerequisites: MPC 011, MPC 012.

MPF 024 Film Studies: Writing for Film Lab: 3 hrs.

This course will introduce the students to basic writing and research techniques as they relate to film/video making and to the Canadian screen industry. Emphasis will be placed on writing proposals and outlines for narrative and non-fiction films.

Corequisite: MPF 022.

MPF 026 Film Studies: Theories of Representation Lect: 3 hrs.

This segment will survey major theoretical approaches to cinema from formalist and realist traditions to contemporary developments in the discipline. Students will read classic texts, view significant films, and be introduced to current critical theory. They will gain knowledge of the rhetoric, grammar, structure, aesthetics and ideology of cinema, and will acquire a frame of reference for questioning the inherent belief systems within certain works of cinematic art.

Prerequisite: MPC 014.

MPF 032 Film Studies: Film Production Lab: 7 hrs.

This course is primarily concerned with narrative film and video and will introduce students to the practical considerations and creative strategies employed in the producing, planning, directing, rehearsing, staging and final execution of stories for the screen. Special projects will be undertaken in team configurations bringing film students together with acting students in the Ryerson Theatre School in joint efforts to produce dramatic episodes for film and video screens.

Course Weight: 3.00. Prerequisites: MPF 022, MPF 023. Corequisites: MPF 300.

MPF 035 Film Studies: Film Theory Lect: 3 hrs.

This course will introduce students to contemporary film theories and will introduce them to a vocabulary and methodology for film analysis. The influence of structuralism, semiotics and psychoanalysis on film practice will be stressed. Theories and strategies of the post-modernist discourse will be studied and the notions of narrative, theatricality, depiction and expression will be examined in light of the formal cultural and ideological context that underlie them.

Prerequisite: MPF 026.

MPF 042 Film Studies: Senior Project Lab: 6 hrs.

This course will provide students with the opportunity to apply the theories, concepts, techniques, technologies, and practices of making films and videos learned in previous years and to synthesize them in a senior project of a prescribed length. Individuals will work in close regular consultation with the instructor and/or an advisor through all stages of production. Alternatively, they may undertake, with the approval of the instructor, concentrated work of a specified nature in relation to production.

Course Weight: 3.00 Prerequisites: MPF 032, MPF 300, MPF 301.

MPF 300 Film Studies: Technology Lect: 2 hrs.

This course deals with post-production systems, methods and equipment. Topics include sound editing, record-keeping and documentation, interlock and equivalent recording and mixing, post-synchronous recording methods and systems, preparation of negatives for printing and related technologies in the film and video lab. There will also be an examination of colour film systems, film/video interfaces, video editing systems, digital systems and ongoing techno-logical developments in film, audio and video.

Prerequisite: MPF 023.

MPF 301 Film Studies: Business of Film Lect: 2 hrs.

This course helps students to become aware of the business aspects of film and video production and includes documentary, commercial and narrative productions. It deals with those areas of pre-production, production and post-production which most involve the producer directly. Promotion, distribution and exhibition of product will be dealt with.

Prerequisite: MPF 022.

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MPF 016	Film Studies: Film Production	Lab: 3 hrs.
This course introduces students in the Film Studies option to their chosen medium. The course deals with how meaning is created through the moving image, and specifically explores the relationship between form and content. A series of exercises will enable students to become familiar with the basic principles of filmmaking: the principles of continuity, screen space and time, editing, projection and exhibition will all be studied.
Corequisite: MPF 017.

MPF 017	Film Studies: Tools and Applications	Lab: 3 hrs.
This lecture/laboratory course introduces students to the tools, applications and creative methods used in the making and interpreting of film, as well as to photographic and electronic imaging, digital applications and sound recording. The emphasis is on cross-disciplinary instruction in an inter-media working environment. An initial exploration of the technologies of film production will be followed by study of other imaging systems and photographic applications, as well as sound and image formation, recording and sequencing.
Corequisite: MPF 016.

MPF 021	Film Studies: History of Film	Lect: 3 hrs.
This course examines cinema from its origins to the present. Topics include silent and sound film, the studio system in the U.S.A., contributions of Western European film and notable filmmakers and films in the evolution of film art and practice. Alternate film styles and techniques will be examined against the background of the monolithic development of the narrative film and both will be considered within the context of the political, cultural and economic issues which animated their times.
Prerequisite: MPC 013.

MPF 022	Film Studies: Film Production	Lab: 4 hrs.
This course introduces students to more complex theoretical and practical principles of film and video production. The relationship between actuality and its filmic representation will be examined. The role and application of sound in film and video will be studied. Through more advanced practical applications the course will explore the audience/film maker nexus, storytelling techniques, the relationship of form to content, montage strategies and the different modes of production.
Course Weight: 3.00. Prerequisites: MPC 011, MPC 012. Corequisite: MPF 023.

MPF 023	Film Studies: Technology	Lect: 2 hrs.
This course introduces students to theoretical and practical aspects of complex systems and equipment employed in production in both studio and location situations. It will include an examination of the entire sequence of production and post-production processes and the equipment and systems employed therein, including synchronous and non-synchronous systems in both shooting and post-production.
Prerequisites: MPC 011, MPC 012.

MPF 024	Film Studies: Writing for Film	Lab: 3 hrs.
This course will introduce the students to basic writing and research techniques as they relate to film/video making and to the Canadian screen industry. Emphasis will be placed on writing proposals and outlines for narrative and non-fiction films.
Corequisite: MPF 022.

MPF 026	Film Studies: Theories of Representation	Lect: 3 hrs.
This segment will survey major theoretical approaches to cinema from formalist and realist traditions to contemporary developments in the discipline. Students will read classic texts, view significant films, and be introduced to current critical theory. They will gain knowledge of the rhetoric, grammar, structure, aesthetics and ideology of cinema, and will acquire a frame of reference for questioning the inherent belief systems within certain works of cinematic art.
Prerequisite: MPC 014.

MPF 032	Film Studies: Film Production	Lab: 7 hrs.
This course is primarily concerned with narrative film and video and will introduce students to the practical considerations and creative strategies employed in the producing, planning, directing, rehearsing, staging and final execution of stories for the screen. Special projects will be undertaken in team configurations bringing film students together with acting students in the Ryerson Theatre School in joint efforts to produce dramatic episodes for film and video screens.
Course Weight: 3.00. Prerequisites: MPF 022, MPF 023. Corequisites: MPF 300.

MPF 035	Film Studies: Film Theory	Lect: 3 hrs.
This course will introduce students to contemporary film theories and will introduce them to a vocabulary and methodology for film analysis. The influence of structuralism, semiotics and psychoanalysis on film practice will be stressed. Theories and strategies of the post-modernist discourse will be studied and the notions of narrative, theatricality, depiction and expression will be examined in light of the formal cultural and ideological context that underlie them.
Prerequisite: MPF 026.

MPF 042	Film Studies: Senior Project	Lab: 6 hrs.
This course will provide students with the opportunity to apply the theories, concepts, techniques, technologies, and practices of making films and videos learned in previous years and to synthesize them in a senior project of a prescribed length. Individuals will work in close regular consultation with the instructor and/or an advisor through all stages of production. Alternatively, they may undertake, with the approval of the instructor, concentrated work of a specified nature in relation to production.
Course Weight: 3.00 Prerequisites: MPF 032, MPF 300, MPF 301.

MPF 300	Film Studies: Technology	Lect: 2 hrs.
This course deals with post-production systems, methods and equipment. Topics include sound editing, record-keeping and documentation, interlock and equivalent recording and mixing, post-synchronous recording methods and systems, preparation of negatives for printing and related technologies in the film and video lab. There will also be an examination of colour film systems, film/video interfaces, video editing systems, digital systems and ongoing techno-logical developments in film, audio and video.
Prerequisite: MPF 023.

MPF 301	Film Studies: Business of Film	Lect: 2 hrs.
This course helps students to become aware of the business aspects of film and video production and includes documentary, commercial and narrative productions. It deals with those areas of pre-production, production and post-production which most involve the producer directly. Promotion, distribution and exhibition of product will be dealt with.
Prerequisite: MPF 022.