Film Major
Film Major offers a unique integration of two Concentrations: Animation and Media Arts Concentration, Film and Television Concentration—to equip students with the knowledge required to develop careers in the creative industries, such as audio-visual production, digital animation, interactive gaming, visual design and media- or arts-related administration.
Animation and Media Arts Concentration
Animation and Media Arts Concentration offers a comprehensive curriculum of animation and media arts, with a focus on digital animation. The curriculum comprises foundational courses in storytelling, visual arts and creative thinking, as well as advanced courses in digital animation. Students can also choose to specialise in selected areas such as interactive media, game and graphic design through a wide range of advanced level courses.
Film and Television Concentration
Film and Television Concentration provides broad training in film, video and television, with attention to relevant areas of theory, history, and practice. We offer two distinct options: “Professional Option” and “Liberal Studies Option”.
Professional Option
The Professional Option aims to strengthen both professional and conceptual education of film students. It provides Year 1 students film education in both history of film and film production. It also provides solid training in film production by making editing, script writing and directing core courses of the programme in progressive learning manner as well as to strengthen both fiction and non-fiction film making education and to nurture all rounded film makers. The Professional Option offers more courses on film theory and criticism, film history and film studies to enhance film literacy, and to prepare students with theoretical interests to pursue postgraduate education in film studies. Meanwhile, it adds more major elective units for students to mix and match among the diversity of the major elective list according to student’s interest in film studies in theory and practice.
Liberal Studies Option
The Liberal Studies Option is to honour the spirit of the liberal arts education ethos of the University and with its commitment to whole person development of students.
Requirements
| II. | Major Courses | 49–64 units |
| Major Required Courses (7–13 units) | ||
| Animation and Media Arts Concentration (13 units) |
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| Film and Television Concentration—Professional Option (7 units) | ||
| Film and Television Concentration—Liberal Studies Option (13 units) | ||
| FILM2006 Introduction to Production | 3 units | |
| FILM2008 Practicum I | 0 unit | |
| FILM2009 Practicum I | 0 unit | |
| FILM2047 Storytelling* | 3 units | |
| FILM2057 Visual Expression* | 3 units | |
| FILM3008 Practicum II | 0 unit | |
| FILM3009 Practicum II | 0 unit | |
| FILM3125 Honours Project Preparation Workshop | 1 unit | |
| FILM4047 Film Theory and Criticism | 3 units | |
| Concentration Courses (27–45 units) | ||
| Animation and Media Arts Concentration Required Courses (24 units) | ||
| FILM2035 Fundamentals of Computer Graphics | 3 units | |
| FILM2037 Fundamentals of Media Arts | 3 units | |
| FILM2056 Drawing | 3 units | |
| FILM3055 3D Modeling, Texture and Rendering | 3 units | |
| FILM3087 Understanding Animation | 3 units | |
| FILM3095 Animation Workshop I: Principles, Aesthetics, and Production | 3 units | |
| FILM3107 Interactive Graphics | 3 units | |
| FILM4036 Animation Workshop II: Body Mechanics | 3 units | |
| Animation and Media Arts Concentration Elective Courses (9 units) | ||
| Choose three from the following courses: | ||
| FILM3045 Creative Arts and Visual Strategy | 3 units | |
| FILM3106 Sound Design For Animation | 3 units | |
| FILM3115 Virtual World: Design and Interaction | 3 units | |
| FILM4056 Character Design and Storyboarding | 3 units | |
| FILM4075 Facial Animation | 3 units | |
| FILM4076 Character Animation | 3 units | |
| Film and Television Concentration—Professional Option Required Courses (45 units) |
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| FILM2005 History of Cinema | 3 units | |
| FILM2065 Cinematography | 3 units | |
| FILM2066 Reading Literature | 3 units | |
| FILM2067 The Art of Script Writing | 6 units | |
| FILM3006 Film Sound | 3 units | |
| FILM3016 Non-Fiction Film | 3 units | |
| FILM3076 Screen Acting Workshop | 3 units | |
| FILM3077 The Art of Documentary Film | 3 units | |
| FILM3116 The Art of Editing | 3 units | |
| FILM4035 Production Management | 3 units | |
| FILM4065 Art Direction | 3 units | |
| FILM4086 Film Directing | 6 units | |
| FILM4087 Post-Production Workshop | 3 units | |
| Film and Television Concentration—Liberal Studies Option Required Courses (21 units) |
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| FILM2005 History of Cinema | 3 units | |
| FILM2015 Script Writing | 3 units | |
| FILM2065 Cinematography | 3 units | |
| FILM3116 The Art of Editing | 3 units | |
| FILM3117 Documentary Production | 3 units | |
| FILM4015 Film and Television Directing | 3 units | |
| FILM4055 Television and New Media | 3 units | |
| Film and Television Concentration—Liberal Studies Option Elective Course (6 units) | ||
| Choose one from the following courses: | ||
| FILM3035 Chinese-Language Cinema | 3 units | |
| FILM3047 Hollywood Cinema | 3 units | |
| FILM4026 East Asian Cinemas: History and Current Issues | 3 units | |
| FILM4037 Studies in French Cinema | 3 units | |
| Choose one from the following courses: | ||
| FILM3006 Film Sound | 3 units | |
| FILM3016 Non-Fiction Film | 3 units | |
| FILM4007 Advanced Script Writing | 3 units | |
| FILM4046 Advanced Cinematography | 3 units | |
| Major Elective Course (3–12 units) | ||
| Animation and Media Arts Concentration (3 units) | ||
| Film and Television Concentration—Professional Option (12 units) | ||
| Film and Television Concentration—Liberal Studies Option (9 units) | ||
| FILM2007 Principles of Photo-Imaging | 3 units | |
| FILM2035 Fundamentals of Computer Graphics | 3 units | |
| FILM2037 Fundamentals of Media Arts | 3 units | |
| FILM2045 Art History | 3 units | |
| FILM2047 Storytelling^ | 3 units | |
| FILM2057 Visual Expression^ | 3 units | |
| FILM3006 Film Sound* | 3 units | |
| FILM3016 Non-Fiction Film* | 3 units | |
| FILM3025 Digital Aesthetics and Practices | 3 units | |
| FILM3026 Documentary Photography* | 3 units | |
| FILM3027 Television Studio Production# | 3 units | |
| FILM3035 Chinese-Language Cinema | 3 units | |
| FILM3045 Creative Arts and Visual Strategy | 3 units | |
| FILM3047 Hollywood Cinema | 3 units | |
| FILM3066 Television/Streaming Programming and Concepts | 3 units | |
| FILM3067 Creative Media Management | 3 units | |
| FILM3076 Screen Acting Workshop* | 3 units | |
| FILM3077 The Art of Documentary Film* | 3 units | |
| FILM3085 Film Music and Sound Design | 3 units | |
| FILM3086 Independent Cinema | 3 units | |
| FILM3087 Understanding Animation | 3 units | |
| FILM3097 Hong Kong Cinema | 3 units | |
| FILM3105 Alternative Animation | 3 units | |
| FILM3106 Sound Design for Animation | 3 units | |
| FILM3107 Interactive Graphics | 3 units | |
| FILM3115 Virtual World: Design and Interaction | 3 units | |
| FILM3117 Documentary Production^ | 3 units | |
| FILM4006 Advanced Experimental Image Processing* | 3 units | |
| FILM4007 Advanced Script Writing | 3 units | |
| FILM4016 Internship | 0 unit | |
| FILM4017 Motion Graphic Design | 3 units | |
| FILM4026 East Asian Cinemas: History and Current Issues | 3 units | |
| FILM4027 Special Topics in Film | 3 units | |
| FILM4035 Production Management* | 3 units | |
| FILM4037 Studies in French Cinema* | 3 units | |
| FILM4045 Studies in German Cinema* | 3 units | |
| FILM4046 Advanced Cinematography | 3 units | |
| FILM4056 Character Design and Storyboarding | 3 units | |
| FILM4065 Art Direction* | 3 units | |
| FILM4066 Visual Effects Workshop | 3 units | |
| FILM4075 Facial Animation | 3 units | |
| FILM4076 Character Animation | 3 units | |
| FILM4077 Creative Production in Extended Reality | 3 units | |
| FILM4085 Screen Adaptation | 3 units | |
| III. | Honours Project | 6 units |
| Animation and Media Arts Concentration | ||
| FILM4868 Honours Project in Animation and Media Arts | 3 units | |
| FILM4869 Honours Project in Animation and Media Arts | 3 units | |
| Film and Television Concentration—Professional Option | ||
| Film and Television Concentration—Liberal Studies Option | ||
| FILM4878 Honours Project in Film and Television | 3 units | |
| FILM4879 Honours Project in Film and Television | 3 units | |
| VI. | Free Electives | 15–30 units |
| Animation and Media Arts Concentration (30 units) | ||
| Film and Television Concentration—Professional Option (15 units) | ||
| Film and Television Concentration—Liberal Studies Option (30 units) | ||
^ For Film and Television Concentration—Professional Option students only.
* For Animation and Media Arts Concentration and Film and Television Concentration—Liberal Studies Option students only.
# For Film and Television Concentration students only.
