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)
 
  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)
 
  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)
 
  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. 

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