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BSocSc (Hons) in Communication - Film and Media Arts Major

Course Description

 

COMM 1005        Introduction to Communication      (3 units)

The purpose of this course is to introduce students who have had no prior experience with the field of communication to its diverse areas of study and its fundamental concepts. It will provide a common foundation for students in the School of Communication by presenting a coherent vocabulary for talking about communication and a comprehensive perspective for approaching subsequent courses within the School’s various majors and options. The course also aims to demonstrate the interrelationships between options and departments and to stimulate interest in and commitment to the study of communication.

 

 

FILM 2005        Film History      (3 units)

The course will introduce students to some of the key moments in the history of the cinema, and to a number of key issues relevant to a study of the subject. Topics covered will include the historical context of film production, major movements, stylistic trends, directors and films.

 

 

FILM 2006        Introduction to Digital Video and Sound Production      (3 units)

The course aims to introduce students to the essential aspects of sequential media, especially digital video and sound production. With a view to understanding unique potentials, as well as limitations of the fundamental design with discrete media in the process of visual-aural communication, students will learn how to create and develop ideas via related practical skills including video shooting and editing, sound recording, and media design and production. In line with aesthetic and theoretical studies of different digital video and computer animation artworks, students will be provided with hands-on practices of digital video and sound production skills and knowledge. Both theoretical and practical trainings aim to provide students the developing multidisciplinary knowledge for using sequential media in digital video and computerized media productions.

 

 

FILM 2007        Principles of Photo-imaging      (3 units)

This course introduces students the basic visual grammar of photographic language. They will experience and appreciate contemporary photo imaging forms and concepts through a practical, analytical and critical approach. Students will learn photographic seeing from the practical knowledge of analog/film, digital manipulation and control of professional quality output.

 

 

FILM 2015        Script Writing      (3 units)

This course is designed on the principle that creativity can be cultivated through the deliberate and dynamic use of creative thinking and the creative process. Students will be encouraged to engage in critical and creative thinking in all aspects of learning and to gain hands-on experience of the creative process.

 

 

FILM 2016        Film and Video Cinematography      (3 units)

Instruction in the use of the equipment available for hands- on exercises is provided to illustrate fundamental principles of cinematography in film and video. Workshops are also conducted to allow students to learn to shoot in the studio and on location. By the end of the semester, students must demonstrate an ability to communicate in basic visual terms and to produce work in both film and video cinematography.

 

 

FILM 2017        Introduction to Film and Media Arts      (3 units)

This course introduces students to the fundamentals of cinema and media arts as interdisciplinary fields with distinct histories and practices. The course has a bifocal approach. The first part focuses on film elements and reading film through the study of key works. This part also emphasizes both the institution of cinema and specific film texts (including mainstream, avant-garde and non-fiction). Students will be asked to consider ways in which cinema makes sense to audiences, practitioners and theorists. The second part of this course will engage students with a comprehensive understanding of media arts by covering its historical developments and intersections between arts and digital technologies to the evolution of applications from early experimentations to contemporary creative and media arts. Students will learn the fundamental theories and principles that have empowered the media to serve as a tool for creative expression and as a medium of artistic production.

 

 

FILM 2025        Visual Communication      (3 units)

This course attempts to introduce students the basic knowledge of visual principles and its cultural and originative contexts. Students will identify visual communication as a form of non-verbal communications. The functions of visual design and its cognitive usage and context will be expressed and analysed. Examples of art and design will be employed to illustrate the different ideas and design approaches. In addition, students need to study and identify the functions and development of visual practices and technological movement and its applications. This course will also facilitate students to express their own findings through visual studies. Eventually students will be able to appreciate good visual practices and understand the aesthetics of visual communication in our everyday lives.

 

 

FILM 2026        Developing Creativity      (3 units)

The course aims at laying out a foundation for the students to develop their habits for thinking that will enable them to operate at the highest levels of creativity in their chosen field. Students will learn different creative thinking techniques through stepby step exercises, illustrated strategies, and inspiring real-world examples. The course will also introduce students to the levels of creativity, styles and creative obstacles and the process of creative problem solving. Students will recognize the above creative dimensions through critical self-evaluation of their own creativity. Exercises, assignments and projects aim to stimulate students’ creative potential, expand their imaginations and idea generation fluency.

 

 

FILM 2035        Fundamentals in Computer Graphics      (3 units)

This course is designed to introduce the fundamentals of computer graphics as how they are applied to arts and design, from both an academic and studio perspective. Both technical and aesthetic issues will be addressed. Aesthetic issues will encompass concepts, composition, appreciation and historical context. Technical topics will include raster and vector imaging, scanning, retouching, printing, animated graphics, and other related topics. The course is based on lectures, demonstration, and a series of workshops which will involve the creation of computer generated images.

 

 

FILM 2036        Cinema Theories and Aesthetics of Film      (3 units)

The course starts with a survey of the major concept of aesthetics. Fundamentals on the different perspectives, cultural in general and media in particular, on beauty will be discussed. Then the course will focus on film. It starts with the aesthetic elements in moving image production: frame, perspective, composition, camera movement, plan-sequence, montage, lighting, colour, sound, and last but not the least, acting. Then it proceeds to see how these elements join together to create different aesthetic forms of audio- visual works. Large amount of audio-visual materials will be presented in the classroom to acquaint students with different significant cinematic styles in film history. In the later part of the course, besides formal aspects, emphasis will be put on the experiential aspects. Philosophical questions concerning the essence of film will be addressed.

 

 

FILM 2037        Fundamentals of Media Arts      (3 units)

Art, science and technology are incorporated as an integral body of media arts in contemporary interdisciplinary education and exhibition environments with new possibilities of dynamic interactions. This course will introduce the meaning of media arts through the study of media history and archaeology from traditional film and video art to multimedia design, net art, digital art, computer animation, computer graphics, interactive installation, robotic art, biotechnology, and so forth. Different media arts and their applications of different media technologies and interface design will be studied to explore their relationship to transforming culture and society. Students will gain broader understandings and critical awareness of different concepts and developments of media arts and mediated interaction from early experiments by futurists and constructivists to most recent practices like interactive games and virtual reality experiments with wearable and portable media. Eventually the students will be able to identify creative ideas of design solutions for different media arts and applications ranging from conceptual to virtual art, computer graphics to digital animation, and performance to interactive installation.

 

 

FILM 3005        Film and Video Editing      (3 units)

Prerequisite: FILM 2016 Film and Video Cinematorgraphy

This course provides an exploration and practical application of the traditional and contemporary experimental theories of film editing. The fundamental steps of film post-production and new electronic technologies being utilized in film and video post- production are introduced.

 

 

FILM 3006        Sound Recording and Mixing      (3 units)

Prerequisite: FILM 2016 Film and Video Cinematorgraphy

The goal of the Sound Recording and Mixing course is to train the students in all the basic elements and stages of audio production as they relate to film/video production. During this course, demonstrations, equipment tutorials, hands-on workshops, in-class exercises and projects will be used to enable student to learn the concepts, skills and techniques of audio equipment and systems involved in the entire film and/or video production processes.

 

 

FILM 3007        Film and Media Arts Research Methods      (3 units)

This course introduces students to the basic research methodologies used in film and digital media. We will identify the disciplinary elements of film and digital media studies and the cross-disciplinary aspects of film and digital media in contemporary contexts. The course is structured by a set of issues connected to art history, literary criticism, social and critical theory and philosophy. It draws on many conceptual, historical and methodological issues, challenging students to evaluate moving images critically and creatively. It also aims to explore contemporary screen theory as an interdisciplinary hybrid of formal, aesthetic, ideological, institutional and technological approaches.

 

 

FILM 3015        Digital Animation      (3 units)

This course introduces the history, language, principles, aesthetics and digital tools used in the creation of animation within the context of art and design. Focus is on understanding the development of animation, the mechanism of animation, and the techniques of animation sufficient to produce projects of merit. The course is organized to maximize hands-on experience and will include numerous in-class exercises. Because of this, attendance at and participation in the weekly classes is extremely important and is considered in grading calculations.

 

 

FILM 3016        Non-fiction Video Production      (3 units)

The course introduces the variety and possibility of non-fiction video productions. It aims to illustrate how the non-fiction video responded to personal, social, political, and economic realities and to changes in technology and systems of distribution. Students will broaden and widen the perspective in the video creation. It will introduce all essential stages of producing a non-fiction from generate idea, pre-production, production, and post-production.

 

 

FILM 3017        Studies in Television      (3 units)

This course is designed to acquaint students with knowledge of television history, institutions and cultures and methodologies of television studies. The first part of the course is an overview of television, with a focus on institutions and structures of television. The second part focuses on television as a manifold cultural form and how contemporary literary, media, and cultural theories have redefined studies of television. The impact of television’s new trends and orders, including transnational expansionism, de- regulation, and new technology will also be discussed.

 

 

FILM 3025        Digital Aesthetics and Practices      (3 units)

This course provides a further study and understanding of digital design principles and practices through the creative process. The learning goal will focus on the aesthetic as well as cognitive theory and applications of visual ideas and industrial standard by different creative media. The major learning activities will be hands-on practices in digital media and design experience of communication and transformation such as graphic arts, multimedia design and interactive publication. Exploration of content creations and media solutions in contemporary creative business are expecting to be realized and delivered by students. Cross-media narrative skill and visualization techniques will be required to achieve the creative expression and idea. In addition, exploiting different visual skill sets together with demonstrations on professional techniques will be provided to students. After completing this course, students will be able to understand the discourse of design solutions and cultural changes in digital media aesthetics and practices.

 

 

FILM 3026        Documentary Photography      (3 units)

This course introduces the documentary vocabulary and theory through examination of a series of thematic visual works, i.e. photography, video, film, and new media from historical and sociological perspective. Students will be encouraged to form their holistic perception and apply their formulation of visual interpretation to their surrounding reality using photography as a medium.

 

 

FILM 3027        Television Studio Production      (3 units)

Prerequisite: FILM 2016 Film and Video Cinematorgraphy

The course aims to introduce all essential aspects of TV studio production for incipient students. Students will learn techniques of multi-camera shooting in television studio. The equipment, personnel and crew will be explained. Fundamental aesthetics of shot composition, shot variation, shot arrangement, light, use of sound and music, etc. will be instructed. Students will work as group to explore their own strengths and produce project to acquire various knowledge and techniques in television studio.

 

 

FILM 3035        History and Aesthetics of Chinese Cinema      (3 units)

Students learn the general development of Chinese Cinema, the major concepts of film aesthetics and the key idea of Chinese film aesthetics. They will be able to appreciate the Chineseness in Chinese films and write about the achievements of major films aesthetically.

 

 

FILM 3036        Hong Kong and Taiwan Cinema      (3 units)

This course is designed to investigate histories, aesthetics, genres, directors and modes of production of Hong Kong and Taiwan cinema. Students need to have a basic understanding of cinema as an artistic medium as well as a cultural product subject to market economy and cultural policy of nation-states. Lectures focus on the idea of cinema as a never-ending process of struggles among filmmakers, film languages, the film industry, official cultural agendas, the audiences, and film culture. Each class meeting consists of screening and lectures.

 

 

FILM 3037        Interactive Arts I: Visual Programming      (3 units)

This course aims to extend students’ visual literacy and application of creative ideas from static medium to dynamic interactive media with the introduction of programming skills and the relationship between codes and visual elements. In order to harness the full potentials of the emerging dynamic media, a thorough understanding of the general programming principles and interactivity design is indispensable. However, this course is not going to train students as programmers but prepare them with sufficient knowledge to develop and exploit the dynamic media for their creative endeavors. Students will learn the underlying mechanisms of manipulating, creating and transforming visual elements using programming codes. Moreover, students will explore the domain of generative visuals and arts through the evolutional computing concepts of iterations, recursion, random function and L-system. After finishing this course, students will be able to develop dynamic and generative visual applications for various domains of creative and media productions.

 

 

FILM 3045        Creative Arts and Visual Strategy      (3 units)

This course introduces the art and science of persuasion: creative concepts. It outlines the criteria of effective creative communication, the techniques and creative process involved and how to generate ideas from brief to creative strategy. It gives students an over view of the creative department in creative bureaus. Students will also analyse the creative strategies of awarded campaigns to uncover the secrets of effective communication. Learning will be emphasized through participating in real world competition, practical class exercises and group projects. Students will judge the aspect of good visual strategies and come up with better solutions of their own.

 

 

FILM 3046        Radio Production      (3 units)

The goal of this course is to introduce radio terminology and the operation and production aspects of radio studio work. Topics include sound recording, editing and mixing technique, music and sound effects for radio, voice delivery, programme design and radio scriptwriting. Student will get practical experience in audio labs and broadcast control rooms and further their skills by creating both short-form and long-form radio programme formats such as radio drama, features, music programmes, talk shows, phone-in programmes, interviews as well as radio jingles and commercials.

 

 

FILM 3047        Studies in Hollywood Cinema      (3 units)

The objective of the course will be to introduce students to the history of Hollywood film production, and to a number of key issues relevant to a study of the subject. Topics covered will include the development of the studio system, relationship to society, the star system, and key films and directors. The second part of the course will focus on the films of one major film director.

 

 

FILM 3055        3D Modelling, Texture and Rendering      (3 units)

3D computer graphics and digital animation have been incorporated into many different forms of digital media and design production among disparate sectors of creative industries. This course is an extension of the foundational knowledge of computer graphics and aims to prepare the students with histories, theories, principles, genres, and practical skills of 3D modelling, texturing and rendering from preproduction, production to postproduction. The students will learn both technically and artistically (1) different methods of geometric modelling—NURBS, polygon and subdivision surfaces; (2) shading and texturing—from surface shading to procedural texturing; and (3) lighting and rendering— lighting and shadows, raytracing and radiosity. Simple animation and camera techniques from keyframing to path animation will be introduced. Eventually, the students should be able to create innovative 3D design from concepts, sketches and storyboards to 3D models and renderings for different kinds of 3D digital visualization and simple animation 灡汰捩扡敬琠楦浬‬噔‬慧敭‬湥楶潲浮湥慴湡⁤湩畤瑳楲污搠獥杩Ɱ愠⁳敷汬愠⁳瑯敨⁲畭瑬浩摥慩瀠潲畤瑣潩獮Įఀ؀㜀 ᬀЀ 灁獰䐠獥杩湡⁤牐杯慲浭湩ŧఀ؀㜀 Ѓ 浓牡灴潨敮⁳湡⁤慴汢瑥挠浯異楴杮栠

 

 

FILM 3056        Apps Design and Programming      (3 units)

Smartphones and tablet computing have offered traditional software applications an outreach from general desktop computers to an unprecedented mobile and networked platform. This new landscape has spawned a new breed of software applications called Apps which revolutionize how people entertain, socialise and communicate. This course aims to introduce the frameworks and principles behind the Apps design from both platform dependent and independent perspectives.
Starting from general principles of Apps design to specific platform programming, students will learn both theories and practical skills to exploit the creative potentials of mobile interactions for different types of applications ranging from entertainment to social networking. The latest open standard Web technologies such as HTML, JavaScript and CSS will be introduced as the backbone for platform-independent Apps design while contemporary platforms such as iOS and Android will be covered in specific implementations.

 

 

FILM 3057        Character Animation      (3 units)

This course builds on the knowledge foundation from the courses “Computer Graphics” and “3D Modelling, Texture and Rendering” and focuses on the principles and techniques in developing character animations for narrative purposes.
Unlike motion graphics and effects animations, character animation demands the capability of relating the characters with the audience for effective communication of messages. This can only be achieved with fluid animations and vivid characters’ personalities. This course will start with the classical Disney animation principles and demonstrate how to apply these in various scenarios to deliver the sense of weight and convincing physical movements. Students will then learn and master the art of timing and spacing in order to express emotions in the form of animation. This course will also cover some basic principles in acting, posing and body languages so that students can develop characters for performance and storytelling applications in film, TV and games.

 

 

FILM 3065        Creative Media and Art Direction      (3 units)

This course provides an overview of creative media and art direction. Student will learn art direction through the study of different creative media applications ranging from traditional film and multimedia design to digital animation and interactive installation. The course will establish an understanding of thinking conceptually and visually, current art direction standards, skills necessary for entry level work, behaviours and attitudes towards professional design and production processes. After finishing this course, students will have better attention to details, improved craft skills, sharpened critical instincts and a deeper understanding of art direction in different creative media and disciplines.

 

 

FILM 3066        Television Programming and Concepts      (3 units)

This course explores TV programming strategies, practice, sources, and services at local (Hong Kong), national (China) and international levels; network, public, and independent broadcast and cable operations; audience research; schedule development. This course explores the management of television within the new information environment. Emphasis is focused on the evolution of the various programme types, the planning of programme formats, and the creation of programme ideas. It is designed to give students an understanding of the contextual factors that affect the structures, policies, programming, and management practices of various telecommunications industries.
The convergence of broadcasting, cable television, computing, and telephony will be examined. The function of telecommunications in providing new communications products and information services will be covered. Programming strategies, schedule development, and audience research will be discussed.

 

 

FILM 3067        Creative Media Management      (3 units)

This course is designed for student to learn and acquire the knowledge of operational strategies and business communication in relation with Hong Kong creative industry. This course is to introduce the basic understanding of the business world and the foundation of communication design entities and to the management concepts, which are specific to the process of communication design. Students will be able to identify and apply economics to creative endeavours. They will develop an understanding of people as resources and individuals in different commercial sectors and learn the strategic skills of project management and problem solving. In reality, student will need to learn and understand the genuine practices of creative industry. Study of departmental works and role-play of operating a creative company will be introduced. Students will eventually distinguish business strategies and opportunities in the real world as distinct from the need for better creative media management.

 

 

FILM 4005        Advanced Animation and Special Effects Workshop      (3 units)

Prerequisite: FILM 3015 Digital Animation

This course focuses on the overall workflow of an animation production, explores advanced issues of 3D Animation, and introduces the basic principles behind each process among the spectrum of special effects that are being practised in the current film and video industry. Hands-on experience is provided in the workshops in order to assist students in expanding their visual vocabularies.
The course is organized to maximize hands-on experience and will include numerous in-class exercises. Because of this, attendance at and participation in the weekly classes is extremely important and is considered in grading calculations.

 

 

FILM 4006        Advanced Experimental Image Processing      (3 units)

This course will advance students’ fluencies in photographic expression by introducing them the analogue/film experiment to advanced manipulation of digital capture. Students will learn pin hole imaging technique, view camera capture and advanced photographic lighting and design technique to create high quality digital output, of which utilizing the industry standard for photography exhibition. The technique and photo design proficiency will be developed within a context of historical, critical and conceptual photography conventions.

 

 

FILM 4007        Advanced Script Writing      (3 units)

Prerequisite: FILM 2015 Script Writing

This course explores the principles of different dramatic forms. Issues in comparative drama, media aesthetics and adaptation will also be discussed. Advanced techniques for creating full length original or adapted script will be introduced.

 

 

FILM 4015        Film and Television Directing      (3 units)

This course covers the fundamental, practical elements for directing dramatic film and television productions in the studio and on location. The director’s role and the working relationships among actors, producer, art designer, cameraman, editors and music director, etc. are explored. Opportunity to experiment with the creative use of camera movement as well as mise-en-scene is provided.

 

 

FILM 4016        Film and Media Arts Internship      (0 units)

Prerequisite: Year III standing

(1) Film Concentration: Cinema and Television students are encouraged to undertake a non-graded and zero-credit professional internship during their study. The aim is to help them find out their strength and weakness, learn and apply working experience in real-world industry setting, realize their responsibility as a team member and communicate with other people in a real working situation.

(2) Media Arts Concentration: Digital Graphic Communication students are encouraged to undertake a non-graded and zero- credit professional internship during their study. The internship is normally of at least two months full-time employment or professional practice during the summer between the second and third years but it can be a minimum of 160 hours of work. Students are required to conform to all reasonable requirements of their internship employer. Both the employer and the student file reports with the Department of Communication Studies after the internship.

 

 

FILM 4017        Motion Graphic Design      (3 units)

This course will explore the design requirements for professional quality broadcast graphics and title design for feature films and multimedia projects. Using combinations of still images, graphics, video footages and audio sound tracks, we will examine the relationships of motion, pacing, textures, transitions, design and composition in space and time. Emphasis will be placed on compositing techniques, design concepts, art direction, aesthetics and the overall style of professional motion graphics productions. Asset management, aspect ratios, resolutions, interpolation algorithms, colour depth and image stabilization techniques are also addressed. Students will learn to work with lighting, grain matching, perspective control and camera moves to create the final composite. The Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects and Apple Final Cut Pro software packages will be used to illustrate the principles and techniques and to produce the projects.
The course is organized to maximize hands-on experience and will include in-class critiques, exercises, and work sessions. The critiques will be run as seminar-style discussions, with everyone participating in the critiques and discussions of each student’s work. Because of the way the classes run, attendance and the active participation in the weekly classes is considered very important and is considered in grade calculations.

 

 

FILM 4025        Interactive Arts II: Interface and Game Design      (3 units)

This course aims to equip students with the thorough understanding of the computational concepts behind the responsive interfaces and intelligent games so that they can apply the techniques in developing new interfaces and games on different media platforms. Interactive and intelligent visual interfaces are the windows and faces of various contemporary media such as games, smartphones, tablets and interactive TV. Those engaging visual interface and novel interaction experience are driven by sophisticated computational concepts and meticulous implementations. Going beyond buttons and point- and-click interface, this course will cover physical-based interfaces built with particles, springs, elasticity, forces and collisions, and explore various input modalities using webcam and microphone for gesture and voice recognition. Special topics on Path-finding, Cellular Automata and Genetic Algorithm will also be introduced to expand student’s arsenal of tools in interactive art and design development.

 

 

FILM 4026        East Asian Cinemas: History and Current Issues      (3 units)

The course centres on various Asian cinemas and is designed to introduce students to a basic understanding of this unique cluster of cinemas, particularly their respective industrial, directorial and stylistic features. Focus is on Orientalism, modernism, colonialism and post-colonialism of Asian Cinema (and culture and society), also on the relation between cinemas in Asia and cinemas of the West. The areas covered in this course range from major film production centres of Japan, South Korea, India to marginal cinemas such as Singapore and the Philippines; feminist, diasporic and independent filmmaking will also be included in our topics.

 

 

FILM 4027        Special Topics in Film and Media Arts      (3 units)

This course allows new topics to be taught, enabling a degree of flexibility within the curriculum, for emergent ideas to appear and be realized within the teaching and learning environment, and to reflect the changing interests and expertise of staff members. There are, therefore, no subject-specific aims and objectives here, but rather general aims and objectives, within which subject- content will be articulated. The course aims to study a particular subject in a comprehensive manner. Students will attend lectures on the subject, read on the subject, view relevant films, and carry out required modes of assessment. At the end of the course students will have a good understanding of the subject, and will be able to demonstrate that understanding in specified forms of assessment.

 

 

FILM 4035        Production Management      (3 units)

Prerequisite: Year IV standing

The course aims to introduce the entire structure of film production nowadays. It explains all duties and importance of main posts, “above-the-line and “below-the-line”, in the film production system including script writer, producer, director, cinematographer editor, grip, gaffer, etc.
The course will introduce the updated management of media organisations and the development of latest media in video and film production. It will be conducted in seminar form. Guests will be invited to share their dynamic experiences of media management. Students will broaden and widen the perspective in production and media management and development.

 

 

FILM 4037        Studies in French Cinema      (3 units)

The course will introduce students to some of the important movements within French cinema history, and to important French films and film-makers. The central themes and characteristics of films, film-makers and film movements will be considered, as will historical context. The course will also cover selected areas and issues of European film theory where relevant.

 

 

FILM 4045        Studies in German Cinema      (3 units)

The course will introduce students to some of the important movements within German cinema history, and to important German films and film-makers. The central themes and characteristics of film-makers, films and film movement will be considered, as will historical context. The course will also cover selected areas and issues of European film theory where relevant.

 

 

FILM 2008-9        Film and Media Arts Practicum I      (0 units)

(1) Film Concentration: This course aims to engage students in projects operated by The Young Director (TYD). The TYD is a student organization, which is jointly run by second and third year of Film Concentration students. Students gain practical experience by participating in the planning and execution of moving image production, circulation and promotion projects.

(2) Media Arts Concentration: Students gain practical experience in managing Media Arts projects by operating under the Digiforce (DF). Digiforce is a student organization which is jointly run by second and third year Media Arts Concentration students. Through a series of projects, students learn how to plan, organize, visualize, design and work as a team.

 

 

FILM 3008-9        Film and Media Arts Practicum II       (0 units)

(1) Film Concentration: This course aims to engage students in projects operated by The Young Director (TYD). The TYD is a student organization, which is jointly run by second and third year of Film Concentration students.

(2) Media Arts Concentration: Students gain practical experience in managing Media Arts projects by operating under the Digiforce (DF). Digiforce is a student organization which is jointly run by second and third year Media Arts Concentration students. Through a series of external and internal creative projects, students learn how to plan, organize, decide, visualize and work as a team and individually.

 

 

FILM 4898-9        Honours Project in Film and Media Arts      (6 units)

Prerequisite: FILM 2008-9 Film and Media Arts Practicum I and Film and Media Arts Practicum II (for Film and Video Production Projects); or FILM 4007 Advanced Script Writing (for Script Writing Projects)

An Honours Project is proposed and designed by the student, with the approval of a supervising faculty member, in an area related to the student’s selected final major electives. The Honours Project involves the individual student in a creative pursuit and represents the peak of the student’s creative achievements in the course. Students receive regular reviews of their progress from supervisors. The final project must be presented in production or written format and will be assessed by a panel of teaching staff. The proposed project categories may come from the following fields: film and video production, animation, scriptwriting, research, publishing/web design, creative strategy and multimedia installation. Prior to the approval of the project, the student must submit a written proposal. Assessment criteria include judgments on communication and artistic quality, and the creative use of electronic and digital media techniques. Workshops and seminars provide an informal forum to discuss progress in the work.

 

 

JOUR 2045        Introduction to Journalism      (3 units)

This course explores both the practical and theoretical dimensions of journalism, which will be presented as both a social process and a professional practice. It will start with a discussion of news patterns and major problems in journalism here and abroad. The course will then introduce various perspectives in understanding the purposes and practices of journalism in Hong Kong and elsewhere. By understanding the principles and practices of journalism through various means, students may expect to learn the intellectual foundations of both the professional duty of a journalist and the role of journalism in society.

 

 

JOUR 3097        Current Hong Kong Issues for Communicators      (3 units)

Communicators This course aims to equip students with a solid understanding of major social, cultural, economic and political developments of Hong Kong that are crucial to their work as communication professionals. Students will learn to critically appraise the forces that shaped these developments and the policy dilemmas that beset Hong Kong in the past, present and future.

 

 

JOUR 3107        Media Development in Global Perspective      (3 units)

Perspective Each epoch has a dominant medium and develops a group of dominant media institutions. This course examines the development of media and communication technologies in contemporary society and explores their socio-cultural impacts. It also introduces the major media institutions in various media ages. It has several tasks: (1) to provide a basic understanding about media and communication technologies in historical and global perspectives; (2) to guide the students to evaluate the sociocultural impacts of these communication media, help them to understand the relationships between communication systems and social change; and (3) to familiarize students with representative media institutions and media organizations in contemporary society

 

 

JOUR 3115        Media Management      (3 units)

The 21st century is the age of knowledge society. This is an introductory course to study media management in the era of change. Management cases in news organizations will serve as examples for illustration. The main purpose is to examine and analyse the new challenges being posed by political, economic and technological changes in the new millennium to news media management in Hong Kong as well as in other countries. Through the course, it is hoped that students can have a better understanding of the basic principles of media management in a new media environmental context. The course is divided into four parts. The first lays out the theoretical foundations of media management. The second introduces the changing media environment. The third part is designed to provide students with theories and basic principles of media management. The fourth part is about the important areas of media management activities. The course covers both print and electronic news media.

 

 

ORGC 2016        Culture, Society and the Media      (3 units)

Prerequisite: PRAD 2017 Introduction to Communication: A PRA & ORGC Perspective

This course is an introduction to cultural studies. This new area within the discipline of communication brings social and political analysis to the study of communicative practice. The emphasis is on developing sets of concepts which help to understand communicative power, using examples from film, press, television, popular music, fiction, and so forth.

 

 

PRAD 2005        Introduction to Public Relations and Advertising      (3 units)

Advertising This course intends to introduce some fundamental principles in public relations and advertising. The instructor will guide students to get familiar with the concepts of strategic management of public relations, ethics, brand promotion, integrated marketing communication, global communication, etc. In addition, as agencies play a key role in many business operations in Hong Kong, students will be introduced the agency structure and operations.

 

 

PRAD 3027        Digital Audio and Video Production      (3 units)

This course provides an introduction to the creation and use of sequence and time-based media for storytelling and persuasion, as well as its application in advertising, public relations and organizational communication. Building on the foundations for design with discrete media, sequences and time add unique potential for the communication process.