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  • CINE 201: Cinematic Representation

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    Course Description: This course provides students with the media literacy and film history knowledge necessary to critically look at how films have teh ability to influence culture and how culture influences film. Using the core principles of media literacy education students will apply critical thinking skills to film history with the aim of chronicling and understanding the cinematic representation of various culture groups, stimulating discussion of human difference, and examaning forces and institutions of bias. Through reading, film viewing, writing, research and discussion students will use reflective judgement to understand the relationship between film and American culture. Course Objectives (1) Comprehend cinematic representations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability and how they are evolving throughout the history of media. 2)"Read" film with a more critical eye. 3) Understand the business of media and how ownership, profit margins, and ideology influence the content. 4) Understand how media messages shape our culture and society. 5) Think critically about the media messages we receive and create. Listed Topics 1) The core principles of media literacy education. 2) Film as one of the major contemporary vehicles of popular culture. 3) Basic terms and issues of cultural theory and cinematic representation including aspects of race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability. 4) Media literacy as an essential life skill in the 21st century.
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  • CINE 205: Narrative Structure

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    An in-depth analysis of the structure, formulas and storytelling techniques of the feature length screenplay will be the focus of the course. Students will study a wide range of successful films and discover the common elements that they share. Prerequisite: CINE 105. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to: (1) Discuss storytelling in terms of the concepts presented in class. (2) Analyze the structure of films and other visual media to determine the act structure, plot points, and sequence structure. (3) Identify specific storytelling techniques and articulate how they are used to engage audience. (4) Demonstrate an understanding of Character Identification and recognize how it is developed in films and visual media. (5) Articulate ideas about story in a collaborative environment to develop and improve screenplays. (6) Develop a more comprehensive understanding of storytelling techniques and story structure.
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  • CINE 208: Classical and Modern Drama

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    Course Description: Recognizing theatre as one of the cornerstones of cinema, this course is a survey and analysis of historically significant plays that examines common elements of dramatic structure, character development, and theme as they relate to, and have influenced, cinematic forms. Prerequisite: CINE 205 Course Objectives (1) Recognize the importance of staged works and structure in the shaping of today's dramatic narratives (2) Classify historical and modern works of drama. (3) Examine and contrast commonalities in classical stage works and today's media writing. (4) Investigate Greek tragedies and comedies. (5) Digest the works of the Renaissance and neoclassicism. (6) Analyze works of modern and postmodern playwrights.
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  • CINE 210: Visual Analysis

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    This course will introduce students to systems of critical analysis of visual images, particularly of the cinema. These include contemporary critical frameworks of cinematic analysis, as well as analysis of the visual components of images in media production, and how their manipulation can help communicate meaning. Prerequisite: CINE 150. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Identify implied ideas and values in visual media (2) Identify how historical and cultural factors shape the implied meanings of a work of visual media (3) Apply a specific critical framework in analyzing visual media (4) Support a critical analysis of visual media through assembling research into a persuasive argument (5) Identify the basic visual components of visual media. (6) Identify how the variation of these components can communicate meaning, and apply these concepts related in assignments.
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  • CINE 250: Production II

    6.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    A workshop course that builds upon the basic skills introduced in Production I to further develop students' narrative storytelling abilities with an emphasis on effective collaboration. Students, working in groups on three productions, will alternate in the roles of writer/director, cinematographer, and editor. Prerequisite: CINE 150. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Develop a film idea into a unified, polished script. (2) Effectively collaborate with a cinematographer and editor on the production of a short film. (3) Devise an efficient pre-production plan for the production and post-production of a short film. (4) Demonstrate cinematography skills such as scene staging and camera movement, as well as using elements of composition and camera technology based on creative considerations and the overall visual concept of the story (5) Utilize post-production picture and sound editing skills and tools to influence the thematic intentions of a film. (6) Use lighting to convey the tone and drama of the scene through achieving a specific style of lighting. (7) Show a developing proficiency in communicating with actors to achieve a desired performance.
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  • CINE 294: Special Topics (CORE)

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

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  • CINE 295: Special Topics in Cinema Arts

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    Special Topics in Cinema and Digital Arts
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  • CINE 301: Cinema Studies Various Topics

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    The CINE 301 courses are designed to allow students to explore the depths, via review and analysis, of specific periods, histories and topics of cinema already covered in the freshman year sequence of courses. Some of the courses already offered have been Film Noir; Women Filmmakers; The French New Wave, an Overview; The Horror Film; Five International Masters; Comedy on Film; and American Cinema of the 1970s-The Age of the American Auteur. Prerequisite: CINE 110. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Describe the historic and cultural context of the era/genre (2) Dissect visual language employed in films (3) Construe meaning from narrative and symbolism (4) Develop individual theses of filmmaker and genre
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  • CINE 302: Cinema Authors

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    The courses comprising the Cinema Authors sequence have been developed to pinpoint one specific filmmaker's work for analysis over the span of an entire term in order for the students to have a deeper understanding of artistic evolution and an appreciation of such. Courses already offered have detailed the works of Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, and Joel and Ethan Coen. Prerequisites: CINE 110. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Describe the historic and cultural context of the era/genre (2) Dissect visual language employed in films (3) Construe meaning from narrative and symbolism (4) Develop individual theses of filmmaker and genre
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  • CINE 305: Intermediate Screenwriting

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    This course is designed for students who wish to advance their screenwriting skills and move beyond the introductory course. In the first half of the course students will be challenged to pitch an original short film idea and follow through with its development to a completed draft & rewrite. During the second half of the course, students will pitch an idea for a commercial feature length film, which they will continue to develop, culminating in the completion of a detailed outline of their feature. Prerequisite: CINE 205. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Learn to pitch a feature and a short script idea. (2) Develop and write a short screenplay (8-10 pages). (3) Rewrite the short screenplay based on feedback received in the workshop setting. (4) Prepare a treatment/synopsis for a feature film. (5) Develop a detailed outline of the feature film.
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