DRMA 160 Introduction to Film and Video (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly THTR 160
Course Description
Introduction to and exploration of the world of movies film, history, filmmaking, techniques, and film direction. The social and economic influences of the American film will also addressed.
Course Content
Basic elements of film and film terminology
Film History
Film Narrative (e.g causality, plot v. story, mise en scene)
Cinematography (camera techniques, movement, and placement)
Film editing and editing schools of thought
Lighting
Sound production
Production design
Acting
Student Outcomes
1. Explain how film history and various film techniques impact audience perceptions and film interpretation.
2. Analyze the elements of film production (e.g. narrative, editing, lighting, cinematography, acting, sound, and direction) in order to explain how design choices impact film creation and reception.
3. Explain the relationship between film form and culture via the various schools of editing (e.g. French New Wave, Eisenstein, Classic Hollywood cinema practices, auteur theory) and cinematography techniques.
4. Analyze the impact that sound design and lighting design has on a film storytelling and communication.
5. Synthesize production design choices in order to explain how film communicates messages effectively.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to craft and exchange ideas and information in a variety of situations, in response to audience, context, purpose, and motivation.
Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
Formal writing: essays, essay exams, research reports, reading responses
Projects: group presentations, individual presentations, multimedia productions
Informal writings: journals, in-class responses, brainstorming, freewriting
Group discussions and classroom activities
Exams and quizzes: short answer, matching, multiple choice
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