CTV Course List
CTV4033 On-line Interactive Video
网上互动视频
The internet provides wonderful access to film/video makers of all kinds, enabling them to reach a vast potential audience cheaply and easily. This course explores concepts and structures of online communication, employing interactive digital media. A variety of tools and procedures will be employed. Students will learn the history and aesthetics of online media and use tools and techniques learned in class to create a well-designed, interactive web page to convey their idea and concept as well as produce a high-quality video to be distributed across the internet. Topics like HTML, user interface, design, internet history, users’ navigation habits, graphic processing, file transfers, internet access, and movie streaming will be covered. Emphases will be put on how to compress the movie without sacrificing playback speed and sharp, crisp detail, as well as incorporate interactive scripts to set up an interface that controls the movie clips through behaviour and action.
Check DetailsCTV2013 Principles of Photo Imaging
相片成像原理
The aims and objectives of this course are: 1) To foster an appreciation of contemporary photo imaging forms and concepts through a practical, analytical and critical approach. 2) To introduce practical knowledge of photo-imaging and techniques of visual presentation along with photographic language and visual theories. 3) To develop students’ knowledge, skills and understanding through the making of photographs and digital images that lead to and demonstrate conceptual and technical accomplishment. 4) To develop students’ knowledge, skills and understanding that lead to increasingly accomplished critical and historical investigations of photography and digital imaging.
Check DetailsCTV4013 Production and Media Management
制作与多媒体管理
This course has two parts. Part 1 examines the roles and skills of a film producer, categories of productions and analyses the proper procedures for production management from initiation to completion. Part 2 focuses on how media organisations and production companies in various scales are managed. Topics will include: 1) Challenges media organisations are facing 2) Techniques and processes used in managing a media company 3) Crisis management 4) Challenge of working in teams 5) Challenge of the new media
Check DetailsCTV2023 Scriptwriting
剧本写作
This course introduces the creative processes of screenwriting. Through practical exercises and assignments students will learn about the art, craft, and business of film and television writing, with a primary focus on writing for short films and writing for television.
Check DetailsGCCH1023 Selected Themes in Chinese History and Civilisation
中国历史与文明专题
This course aims to provide students with (1) knowledge on the various aspects of China’s unique cultural qualities and achievements from past to present; (2) a rich vocabulary for them to be able to illustrate the historical eras of Chinese civilization; (3) the ability to critically analyse various cultural phenomena by looking at a wide spectrum of traditional Chinese ways of life; and (4) the awareness, interests and curiosities in Chinese history and civilization from a cultural perspective.
Check DetailsCTV3003 Sound Recording and Mixing
录音与混音
The aim of the course is to train students in the foundational practices of audio production, familiarise students with the basic elements and stages of audio production, and the concepts, skills and techniques of audio equipment and systems involved in the entire film and/or video production processes. During the course, demonstrations, equipment tutorials, hands-on workshops, in-class exercises and projects will be used to enhance student learning and acquisition of experience in sound design and production for the film and television industries.
Check DetailsGCNU1003 Speaking of Statistics
统计漫谈
This course provides students with an understanding of fundamental statistical techniques commonly used in social science, business, and science today. The emphasis is on statistical thinking, concepts and data analysis. Students are required to solve a variety of problems using statistical packages.
Check DetailsCTV4073 Special Topics in Film and Television Studies
影视专题
Different studies are designed to give students a range of current ideas and respond to new interests of the faculty. Some of the topics of the studies include: visualising stories, digital technology and innovation, the musical or the semiotics related to culture studies, entertainment marketing, creative process and creativity, gender studies, etc. The aims of this course are: 1) To enhance the knowledge and bring different perspectives on the selected topic in TV and Film area. 2) To compare and analyse the main issues of the selected topic and subject. 3) To develop creativities, analysing abilities, and critical thinking through the topical studies in the film and TV area.
Check DetailsCTV4143 Special Topics in Film and Television Subjects
影视专题
Different subjects are designed to give students a range of current ideas and respond to new interests of the faculty. Some topics include: corporate video; non-fiction video; web-series design; etc.
Check DetailsCTV4113 Studies in Asian Cinema: India, Korea, Japan
亚洲电影研习：印度、韩国与日本
The subject matter covered in this course concerns the major film production centres of Japan, South Korea, and India. The course aims to develop insight into the concept of National Cinema, the contemporary transnational cinema, and the relationship between cinema and the cultures and societies of South and East Asia. The course will also provide students with knowledge concerning the relation between cinemas in Asia, cinemas of the West, and cinemas within the Asia region, and will consider the related industry of Anime in the Japanese context. Marginal cinemas such as Singapore and the Philippines; feminist, diasporic and independent filmmaking may also be included as topics. The specific objectives of the course are to engage students with this unique cluster of cinemas, particularly their respective industrial, directorial and stylistic features, and to develop critical thinking skills and attitudes relating to engagement with Asian Cinemas.
Check DetailsCTV4123 Studies in European Cinema
欧洲电影研习
The course centres on various European Cinemas such as France, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Russia. Concentration will focus on moments in the history of the European cinema regarded as productive cinematically and theoretically.
Check DetailsCTV4063 Studies in Hollywood Cinema
好莱坞电影研习
The aims and objectives of this course are: 1) to examine Hollywood as a reference point for all cinemas globally and historically; 2) to explore a set of conventions and practices developed in Hollywood cinema; 3) to study the Hollywood formula and certain important moments in Hollywood cinema and how they relate to American history.
Check DetailsCTV4003 Television Programming and Planning
电视节目规划与编制
This course compares TV programming strategies, practice, sources, and services at local (China), national (Hong Kong) and international levels; network, public, and independent broadcast and cable operations; audience research; and schedule development. The course analyses the management of television within the new information technology environment. Emphasis is focused on the evolution of various programme types, planning of programme formats, and creation of programme ideas. It is designed to give students an understanding of the contextual factors that affect the structures, policies, programming, and management practices of various telecommunications industries. The intersections of broadcasting, cable television, information communication technology will be examined. The function of telecommunications in providing new communications products and information services will also be covered. Additionally, programming strategies, schedule development, and audience research will be discussed within the parameters of this course.
Check DetailsCTV4093 Television Studies
电视学
This course aims to broaden the ability of the student to explain different aspects of television with an emphasis on forms of knowledge, audiences and methodologies that comprise television studies. Students completing this course will acquire recent and relevant experience of the television environment and the television profession, as well as practical skills relating to television programming.
Check DetailsCTV4133 Television Studio Production
电视厂棚制作
The course introduces basic techniques of multi-camera television studio production. The equipment, personnel, and their varying roles will be explained. Fundamental aesthetics of shot composition, continuity, shot variation, shot arrangement, lighting, sound and music recording, will all be discussed. The satisfaction and ethics of teamwork will be imparted through joint and individual production of various genres of programme in the class.
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