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FULL-TIME UNDERGRADUATE CALENDAR 2005-2006
Film Studies
| MPF 16A/B Film Production | |
| 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 17A/B. | | Lab: 3 hrs. | | back to top |
| MPF 17A/B Tools and Applications | |
| 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 16A/B. | | Lab: 3 hrs. | | back to top |
| MPF 21A/B History of Film | |
| 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 13A/B or MPC 13. | | Lect: 3 hrs. | | back to top |
| MPF 22A/B Film Production | |
| This course introduces students to specific modes of production for fiction and documentary film and video. Students will explore narrative storytelling techniques and specific documentary approaches. The practical considerations and creative strategies employed in the researching, planning, producing, directing, and final execution of documentaries and stories for the screen will be studied.
| | Corequisites: MPF 23A/B and MPF 24A/B. Prerequisite: MPF 16A/B or MPF 16. | | Lab: 4 hrs. | | back to top |
| 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.
| | Corequisite: MPF 22A/B. Prerequisite: MPF 17A/B or MPF 17. | | Lect: 2 hrs. | | back to top |
| MPF 24A/B Writing for Film | |
| 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 22A/B. | | Lab: 3 hrs. | | back to top |
| MPF 26A/B Theories of Representation | |
| This course will survey major analytical 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 10A/B or MPC 10. | | Lect: 3 hrs. | | back to top |
| 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 23A/B or MPF 23. | | Lect: 2 hrs. | | back to top |
| 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 22A/B or MPF 22. | | Lect: 2 hrs. | | back to top |
| MPF 32A/B Film Production | |
| This course introduces students to more advanced theoretical and practical principles of documentary and fiction film and video production. Projects will be undertaken in team configurations and for the fiction assignment, film students will have an opportunity to work together with acting students of the Ryerson Theatre School in joint efforts to produce dramatic scenes for film and video screens.
| | Corequisite: MPF 300. Prerequisites: (MPF 22A/B or MPF 22) and (MPF 23A/B or MPF 23). | | Lab: 4 hrs. | | back to top |
| This course will introduce students to contemporary film theories as well as 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 contexts that underlie them.
| | Prerequisite: MPF 26A/B or MPF 26. | | Lect: 3 hrs. | | back to top |
| 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.
| | Prerequisites: (MPF 32A/B or MPF 32) and MPF 300 and MPF 301. | | Lab: 6 hrs. | | back to top |
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