CINEMA AND TELEVISION OPTION
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Option Aims/Objectives & Careers
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The Cinema and Television Option offers a theoretical and production-
intensive education for those with a serious commitment to work in 
the field of cinema and television.

Specific objectives are as follows:

1)   A variety of theoretical and applied subjects make up a 
     professional curriculum in which students are provided with 
     diverse creative experiences, basic to advanced, in both the 
     conceptual and production phases of film, video, radio, 
     cinematography, sound, and animation.

2)   Intensive subject work is available in a variety of areas 
     including directing, producing, and writing as well as in the 
     craft and technical skills of film editing, video post-
     production, and sound recording and re-recording.

3)   Classes in cinema studies provide students with a critical and 
     historical perspective from which to analyse their artistic 
     endeavours.

Graduates will develop careers in the television, cinema and graphics 
industries.


Major Curriculum
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1.    Option Required Subjects include:
      The History of Image and Sound, Film Editing or Video Editing, 
      Documentary Exploration, Script Writing, Sound Recording and 
      Mixing, Film and Video Cinematography, History and Aesthetics 
      of Chinese Cinema, Film and Television Narrative, Producing 
      and Production Management

2.    Option Elective Subjects include:
      Introduction to Animation, Radio Production, Film and 
      Television Directing, Alternative Cinema and Video Art, Art 
      Direction and Production Design, Advanced Animation and 
      Special Effects Workshop, Advanced Script Writing, Film 
      Criticism, Television Theory, Advanced Graphic Communication, 
      Advanced Photography, Audio-Visual Communication: Disciplines 
      and Techniques, Film, Video and other Arts, Studies on Film 
      Directors, etc.

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