THEORY AND TECHNIQUE OF AUDIOVISUAL LANGUAGE
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- Academic year
- 2018/2019
- Teacher
- ALBERTO BOSCHI
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- L-ART/06
Training objectives
- The course aims to make students familiar with concepts, terminology and methodology required to describe and analyse films by a technical and stylistic perspective.
LEARNING OUTCOMES: students will learn how to identify the main figures of cinematic language, such as framing, different types of shots, editing, camera movements, relationship between sound and image, colour, special effects and so on through a wide choice of examples from classic and contemporary films.
ABILITIES: at the end of the course the students should be able to describe and analyse an audiovisual product and to break it up into its components. The aim is helping students to develop the skills necessary to further specialize in the field of film history and criticism or in the field of teaching audio-visual subjects. It can also offer a theoretical support to practical activities in the field of film directing, camera operating or editing. Prerequisites
- None.
Course programme
- INTRODUCTION TO THE FILM ANALYSIS
By offering a wide selection of cinematic and audio-visual examples (such as musical and Internet videos, tv series and so on), the course aims to make students familiar with basic notions of film language. Classes will focus on the following topics: the parts of the visual track (shots, camera movements, editing); analysis of the sound track (dialogues, voice, music, noise and sound in general); the technology of film (development of special effects, colour techniques, 3-D, digital techniques, and other innovations that characterized film history). Didactic methods
- In-presence lessons, supported by the use of PowerPoint presentations and the screening of film scenes.
Learning assessment procedures
- The final exam is oral, and lasts about 15-20 minutes. The students will be asked to reply to some questions (not more than 5) concerning the course topics. Questions may refer both to the contents of the books enumerated in the syllabus and – for those who have attended the classes – to the contents of the lessons.
Reference texts
- Gianni Rondolino, Dario Tomasi, Manuale del film. Linguaggio, racconto, analisi. Terza edizione, UTET, Torino, 2018 (Capitolo 2 – L’inquadratura, pp. 59-185; Capitolo 3 – Il montaggio, pp. 187-274; Capitolo 4 – Il suono, l’immagine, pp. 275-313)
