Film Arts Outcomes

Students completing Film Arts 101 should be able to:

• Identify and explain the different languages of filmmaking, including cinematography, editing, mise-en-scene and sound.

• Recognize different types of shots and angles and explain how a director uses them to establish filmic meaning.

• Recognize and analyze the emotional impact of music in film.

• Analyze the impact of costuming and set dressing on the meaning of a film.

• Analyze the way editing is used to create narrative and meaning in a film

• Able to explain in writing the meanings contained within films.

Students completing Film Arts 257 should be able to:

• Participate critically in the literature/screen debate.

• Recognize, analyze and apply (in critiques and in tests) the principles of visual literacy and
  their use by filmmakers including photography, mise-en-scene, movement, and editing.

• Recognize, analyze and apply shared principles such as drama, story, writing and ideology.

• Identify specific problems concerning the transfer of fiction into film.

• Combine theory and practice in the form of case studies.

• Demonstrate critical skills in written and oral form.

• Recognize, identify and analyze basic techniques and structural elements of cinema and literature.

• Identify genre and non-genre, myth and symbol: styles and trends in literature and film.

• Analyze film and literature as art forms and communicators and transferors of cultural values.