2024/2025
Professional Film Producer Terminology for Working in the International Market. Beginner Course
Category 'Best Course for Career Development'
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Mago-Lego
Delivered by:
School of Foreign Languages
When:
3, 4 module
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Tatyana Morozova
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Курс "Профессиональная терминология кинопроизводителя для работы на международном рынке. Продвинутый курс" предназначен для студентов, которые уже имеют базовые знания в области кинопроизводства и хотят углубить свои знания и навыки. В ходе курса студенты узнают о профессиональной терминологии, используемой в киноиндустрии, и научитесь применять ее на практике. Также получат практические навыки работы с международными партнерами и клиентами.
Learning Objectives
- To sharpen students 'comprehension skills of manifold traditional and emerging (hybrid) types for media products (e.g., professional articles, reports/user- generated content)
- To master essential genres and appropriate specialized registers of English
- To enable students to acquire specialized vocabulary (key terminology) and a set of lexical items with the highest frequency of occurrence in various professional contexts
- To develop the ability ot use essential domain-specific and conventionalized grammatical structures prevalent in the target ESP variety
- To master analytical and critical thinking/writing skills/to master writing skills i n various spheres
- To foster awareness of long-term patterns and relevant trends in the spheres for cinematography and film production
- To improve media literacy and develop a creative approach applicable to a range of professionally relevant tasks (content creation; storytelling; film production)
Expected Learning Outcomes
- uses professional terminology related to series production
- understands the main concepts of creating modern series
- explains the main features of national series
- creates a concept of series
- uses the theoretical knowledge to perform the practical tasks
- uses professional terminology ina given context easily
- delivers the presentation to the audience
- Analyzes the stages of a filml product development
- uses professional terminology in an appropriate context skillfully
- creates a basic frame of a future film project
- applies methods of storytelling analysis to understand different media products
- applies different storytelling techniques to create his/her own one
- writes a script for a part of a film, series or a documentary
Course Contents
- Unit 1. Media and Society
- Unit 2. Three Ps (Pre- Production; Production; Post-Production
- Unit 3. 'Screenwriting: structuring a story and developing concepts'
- Unit 4. 'Video storytelling methods and script creation
Assessment Elements
- Final Assessment
- Oral assessment
- Written Assessmentvocabulary tests based on the key terminology that was covered during the lessons
- Activity and presenceassessment of the attendance rate of a student and also his individual work during the course
- Script Projectthe student creates a script for a film/ episode of series/ documentary
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 4th module0.1 * Activity and presence + 0.1 * Activity and presence + 0.3 * Final Assessment + 0.1 * Oral assessment + 0.1 * Oral assessment + 0.1 * Script Project + 0.1 * Written Assessment + 0.1 * Written Assessment
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- A short guide to writing about film, Corrigan, T., 2015
- Action figures : men, action films, and contemporary adventure narratives, Gallagher, M., 2006
- Art of the cut : conversations with film and TV editors, Hullfish, S., 2017
- Barry Keith Grant, Jeannette Sloniowski, Documenting the Documentary : Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video (Wayne State University Press, 2013).
- Belodubrovskaya, M. (2017). Not According to Plan : Filmmaking Under Stalin. Cornell University Press.
- Birgit Beumers. (1999). Cinemarket, or the Russian Film Industry in “Mission Possible.” Europe-Asia Studies, 5, 871. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668139998750
- Burton, G. (2010). Media and Society : Critical Perspectives (Vol. 2nd ed). Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill Education. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=466475
- Engaging cinema : an introduction to film studies, Nichols, B., 2010
- Hassler-Forest, D., & Guynes, S. A. (2017). Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1701493
- Higueras-Ruiz, M.-J., Gómez-Pérez, F.-J., & Alberich-Pascual, J. (2018). Historical Review and Contemporary Characterization of Showrunner as Professional Profile in TV Series Production: Traits, Skills, Competences, and Style. Communication & Society, 31(1), 91–106. https://doi.org/10.15581/003.31.1.91-106
- Introduction to film studies, , 2012
- Inventing film studies, , 2008
- LaGarde, Jennifer, and Darren Hudgins. Fact Vs. Fiction : Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in the Age of Fake News, International Society for Technology in Education, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/hselibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5880820.
- Page, R. E., & Thomas, B. (2011). New Narratives : Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=477164
- Proferes, N. T. (2018). Film Directing Fundamentals : See Your Film Before Shooting (Vol. Fourth edition). New York: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1549916
- Puzzle films : complex storytelling in contemporary cinema, , 2009
- Storytelling techniques for digital filmmakers : plot structure, camera movement, lens selection,..., Hockrow, B., 2014
- The complete film production handbook, Honthaner, E. L., 2010
- The producer's business handbook : the roadmap for the balanced film producer, Lee, J. J., 2011
- Understanding media cultures : social theory and mass communication, Stevenson, N., 2002
- Visual storytelling : inspiring a new visual language, , 2011
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- An introduction to new media and cybercultures, Nayar, P. K., 2010
- Beyond fake news : finding the truth in a world of misinformation, McBrayer, J. P., 2021
- Ethics and media culture : practices and representations, , 2000
- Media literacy and fake news consumption in Bangladesh: the main tendencies and trends (2012-2022) : автореф. дис. ... канд. филол. наук : 5.9.9, Hossain, B., 2024