The Cinema and Audiovisual degree aims to give professionals higher qualifications in cinema and audiovisual by promoting the development of skills and the effective use of relevant theoretical-practical and technical-artistic concepts. This degree intends that students use the languages and technologies of cinema and audiovisual media. The theoretical and practical proficiency in the use of audiovisual tools, viewed from a creative and aesthetic point of view, promotes conceptual and methodological creation in two domains: (1) Technical field: practice in the use of audiovisual equipment, which are seen as creative and aesthetic tools; (2) Artistic domain: developing concepts and languages in the art of image, namely in the areas of video, cinema, sound and lighting. The study program includes a group of subjects in the areas of film, video, television, visual studies, design and information technology.
| Subject | Description | Year | Semester | ECTS | Taught in english? |
|---|---|---|---|
1º YEAR | |||
| History of Cinema and Photography | Promote knowledge of the History of Cinema and Photography, in view of its founding moments and interpenetrations. Understanding technological, social and artistic itineraries. Identifying episodes and key players in the development of cinematographic language. Stimulate critical and contextual positioning | 1º year | 1º semester | 5 ECTS | NO The professor will occasionally do small remarks in english, in addition to an overview at the end of each class about the contents that were addressed |
| Sound Recording and Editing | Student will be able to: 1) Manipulate audio equipment such as recorders, microphones, lapel microphones and perche recognizing the technical specificities of each one and applying them in the work context. 2) Plan the recording of human voice and soundscape using ab, xy and ms stereo capture techniques. 3) Distinguish between digital audio and analog audio, recognizing the specifics of each one. 4) Operate Digital Audio Workstations (e.g. reaper), editing and mixing audio tracks for dialogues and soundscape; apply a recognize the specifics of the effects of reverberation, compression, equalization and automation. 5) Prepare and manipulate audio in television contexts. | 1º year | 1º semester | 5 ECTS | NO The professor will occasionally do small remarks in english, in addition to an overview at the end of each class about the contents that were addressed |
| Lighting | General: 1 – Understand the differences between “illuminating” for the human eye and for static image recording equipment; 2 – Understand the importance of lighting for the creation of meanings; 3 – Understand the importance of lighting for the construction of intra and inter plan directions. Specifics: 1 – Understand the main phenomena related to light and color; 2 – Develop practical lighting work; 3 – Control the modeling and contrast ratios; 4 – Know the equipment and lighting materials, their correct application and how to operate them properly. | 1º year | 1º semester | 5 ECTS | NO The professor will occasionally do small remarks in english, in addition to an overview at the end of each class about the contents that were addressed |
| Photography and Moving Image | 1- Recognize discourses and techniques of contemporary photography, in order to understand its commercial or artistic applicability as well as its ethical implications. 2- Develop theoretical and practical knowledge of the photographic record in digital support as well as its initial treatment with software, for application in supports and audiovisual media. 3- To explore possibilities of interdisciplinary crossing between photography and other areas of visual and sound creation, developing experimental work. 4 – Start the student in the practice of recording video images, relating it to the theoretical knowledge of the structure of the video signal and the operation of the camera. 5 – Know how to capture and process images from a video camera. | 1º year | 1º semester | 5 ECTS | NO The professor will occasionally do small remarks in english, in addition to an overview at the end of each class about the contents that were addressed |
| Editing | General Skills: It is intended to provide the student with the necessary knowledge so that he can understand the relationship of space and time in film editing. Through its theoretical and historical contextualization in different languages and genres and through the development of the technical and creative resources of digital editing, the student must acquire comprehensive professional skills in the area, of image and sound editing. Specific Skills: The student will be able to use different audiovisual editing applications, develop workflow organization, understand digital formats, use different tools, apply image processing. The students will also understand an audiovisual grammar and know how to apply it to the editing work, by using the rules of visual and sound continuity, cutting rules, narrative coherence, dramatic rhythms, choreography and visual composition. | 1º year | 1º semester | 5 ECTS | NO The professor will occasionally do small remarks in english, in addition to an overview at the end of each class about the contents that were addressed |
| Introduction to Film Directing | Understand the tools and techniques concerning the making of cinema and audiovisual. To provide students with a comprehensive perspective of practices and methodologies that cross the field of fiction to information. Highlight the specificity of the position in response to different operational staff. Be able to understand and apply the knowledge related to each stage of production.Position yourself informed and consequently before the range of technical resources and available audiovisual language. | 1º year | 1º semester | 5 ECTS | NO The professor will occasionally do small remarks in english, in addition to an overview at the end of each class about the contents that were addressed |
2º SEMESTER | |||
| Audiovisual Practices | General: Acquire technical and operational skills in recording and processing video, lighting and audio, recognizing the technical characteristics of each one and their applicability in an audiovisual work context. Understand the practical and creative concepts involved in an audiovisual project. Specifics: Provide students with fundamental technical and creative skills for the production and realization of various types of audiovisual projects. Develop students’ team spirit in audiovisual work contexts. | 1º year | 2º semester | 8 ECTS | NO The professor will occasionally do small remarks in english, in addition to an overview at the end of each class about the contents that were addressed |
| Cinema Practices | Know and practice specific tasks of pre-production, production, post-production of cinematographic projects. Provide the skills for cinematographic practice inserted in a hierarchical work structure. Practice the organization, articulation and coordination of individual functions in a collective cinema team. To know different approaches according to different models of film production. | 1º year | 2º semester | 8 ECTS | NO The professor will occasionally do small remarks in english, in addition to an overview at the end of each class about the contents that were addressed |
| Audiovisual and Film Production | General: In this subject, the student must know and know how to characterize the process of developing an audiovisual and I or cinema project: idea, pre-production, production, post-production, distribution and exhibition. Develop skills in terms of planning, production, solving issues inherent to the realization of an audiovisual and I or cinema project. Specifics: Develop and produce projects in the following areas: multi-camera, television, advertising, documentary, fiction, addressing the different stages of the production process. Organize and produce specific documentation for each function performed by the different teams, for the different formats of audiovisual and cinema. | 1º year | 2º semester | 5 ECTS | NO The professor will occasionally do small remarks in english, in addition to an overview at the end of each class about the contents that were addressed |
| Contemporary Art and Culture | To be able to know a wide range of contextual, author and material references, which constitute the corpus of culture; be able to use a set of tools to interpret the constitutive phenomenology of culture; acquire and use a lexicon (articulated), rigorous, appropriate I specific, for a self-referenced critical discourse, about your own production and that of your peers; expand the capacity for investigation, prob/ematization and questioning of photographic, cinematographic, design, multimedia, and cultural production phenomena. Specific objectives are that the student: Identify trends and trends in contemporary art and culture from the mid-20th century to the present; recognize the authors and fundamental works; recognize the texts that theoretically support the various trends and trends; identify cases of radical break with modernist values as well as cases of permanence or transformation of these values. | 1º year | 2º semester | 4 ECTS | NO The professor will occasionally do small remarks in english, in addition to an overview at the end of each class about the contents that were addressed |
| Communication Theories and Practices | 1.Identify the particularities of Communication (human and non-human) within the scope of Communication Theory 2. Understand the verbal language (oral and written) supported by all communicative systems as a structure underlying the understanding and production of the world 3. Interrelate the phenomena of production and understanding of verbal and visual language within cognitive science 4. Characterize human language (verbal and non-verbal) and identifies the multiple systems, channels and communicative practices 5. Define the concepts of information, communication, predictability, redundancy and entropy and identify their roles in the communicative process 6. Critically analyze communication issues from a procedural and semiotic perspective and characterize the different actors and communicative contexts 7. Identify communicative modalities and analyze their implications for the transmission and reception of information and emotions in different contexts of audiovisual communication. | 1º year | 2º semester | 5 ECTS | NO The professor will occasionally do small remarks in english, in addition to an overview at the end of each class about the contents that were addressed |
2º YEAR | |||
| Narratives and Screenwriting | This course will explore the theoretical and practical foundations for narrative writing and the development of scripts for the various audiovisual media, with a focus on the development of dramaturgy applied to audiovisual and cinema, the development of narrative structures, the creation of characters and principles basic narrative and drama for its development. Students will have contact with the basics of cinematographic writing and the development of audiovisual scripts in order to be able to translate visual ideas through writing. | 2º year | 1º semester | 5 ECTS | NO The professor will occasionally do small remarks in english, in addition to an overview at the end of each class about the contents that were addressed |
| Image and Audiovisual Contexts | 1. Identify the different and complex dimensions of human communication 2. Know and analyze the imaginary dimension of the world 3. Know the semiotic fields and use the tools of production, deciphering, understanding, rhetorical and semiotic analysis 4. Identify and comment on the characteristics and particularities of significant verbal and visual elements 5. Compare the dimensions of readable and visible bimedia texts with static and animated images 6. Systematize and critically analyze contemporary strategies of verbal and visual communication building critical discourse on visual products in multiple contexts. | 2º year | 1º semester | 5 ECTS | NO The professor will occasionally do small remarks in english, in addition to an overview at the end of each class about the contents that were addressed |
| Cinematography | General: Understand the importance that the Direction of Photography has in converting ideas to images, based on technical and aesthetic criteria appropriate to the projects to be developed; Carry out, in the area of photography direction, small and medium dimension projects, both indoors and outdoors; Specifics: Plan the different cinematographic works correctly; Obtain records that aesthetically and qualitatively fit with the argument that served as the initial assumption; To properly control the video image, in the studio and outdoors, using the necessary methods and equipment. | 2º year | 1º semester | 6 ECTS | NO The professor will occasionally do small remarks in english, in addition to an overview at the end of each class about the contents that were addressed |
| Directing Actors | Know the fundamentals, methodologies adopted in the direction of actors for different audiovisual projects. Analyze and review the audiovisual language in its theoretical context for the adequacy of the methods used in the direction of actors. | 2º year | 1º semester | 5 ECTS | NO The professor will occasionally do small remarks in english, in addition to an overview at the end of each class about the contents that were addressed |
| Film Analysis and Criticism | Promote the acquisition of tools in line with film analysis. Develop the capacity for reflection and criticism in view of the intrinsic knowledge of the film in its various modalities. Understand narratives, their impact and artistic, political and social ramifications. | 2º year | 1º semester | 5 ECTS | NO The professor will occasionally do small remarks in english, in addition to an overview at the end of each class about the contents that were addressed |
| Optional 1 | Students completing this subject should be able to: | 2º year | 1º semester | 4 ECTS | NO The professor will occasionally do small remarks in english, in addition to an overview at the end of each class about the contents that were addressed |
2º SEMESTER | |||
| Post-Production and Visual Effects | Students must acquire theoretical and practical skills in the creative techniques and strategies of the post-production chain of audiovisual projects, with emphasis on fiction, whether in advanced cinematographic editing, color correction, grading, tracking, stabilization, digital composition in Green Screen , or the basics of Motion Graphics. They must master some of the software commonly used in audiovisual post-production (and existing at school), such as, for example, the Adobe CC 2021 package and DaVinci Resolve 17. They must also work on all the technical concepts acquired in order to enhance the best creative solutions, whether in specific UC projects, or in the interdisciplinary fiction project of the study cycle. | 2º year | 2º semester | 6 ECTS | NO The professor will occasionally do small remarks in english, in addition to an overview at the end of each class about the contents that were addressed |
| Audiovisual or Cinema Project | (AUDIOVISUAL) General: Understand the strategies and concepts of carrying out a multi-camera studio project. Acquire technical, operational and creative skills in the functions inherent in a multi-camera studio project. Specifics: Provide students with technical and creative skills for the production and realization of multi-chamber studio projects. Streamline and refine teamwork. (CINEMA) General: Understand the aesthetic and practical concepts inherent in filmmaking. Acquire technical and operational skills in functions in the area of image, sound, production and production, for the creation of cinematographic projects in real locations. Specifics: Provide students with the technical and artistic skills necessary for the production and production of short films. Ascertain team work in collaborative projects. | 2º year | 2º semester | 20 ECTS | NO The professor will occasionally do small remarks in english, in addition to an overview at the end of each class about the contents that were addressed |
3º YEAR | |||
| Documentary | Students completing this subject should be able to: | 3º year | 1º semester | 5 ECTS | NO The professor will occasionally do small remarks in english, in addition to an overview at the end of each class about the contents that were addressed |
| Sound Design | students will know: 1) Manipulate audio equipment such as recorders, microphones, perche, mixing desks, loudspeakers, hardware and audio software, recognizing the technical specificities of each one and applying them in audiovisual contexts. 2) Plan the recording of human voice, specific sounds and soundscape using different stereo capture techniques; 3) Analyze and criticize films in aesthetic and technical terms related to sound. 4) Create original sounds inspired by sound design techniques 5) Operate DAW’s, editing and mixing audio tracks for dialogues, music and sound effects; apply and recognize the specifics of the effects of reverberation, compression, equalization, loudness and apply ideas about the spatialization of sound 6) Prepare and execute Foley and ADR recognizing the specifics of the post-production workflow. 7) Recognize and work in ambisonics and binaural format | 3º year | 1º semester | 5 ECTS | YES This subject is taught in english if all the students agree on that. |
| Audiovisual and Cinema Aesthetics and Ethics | Introduction to key points in the development of aesthetic and ethical thinking – from antiquity to contemporaneity. Analyze and produce critical and contextual reflection on artistic objects in the fields of Audiovisual and Cinema. Stimulate production exercises, problematization and conceptual foundation. Understanding of legal implications and deontological practices. | 3º year | 1º semester | 5 ECTS | NO The professor will occasionally do small remarks in english, in addition to an overview at the end of each class about the contents that were addressed |
| Television and New Media | Understand the genesis and development of television and new media. Be able to identify key moments in historical, artistic and technological development. Stimulate production exercises, problematization and conceptual foundation. Practical project development. | 3º year | 1º semester | 5 ECTS | NO The professor will occasionally do small remarks in english, in addition to an overview at the end of each class about the contents that were addressed |
| Advertising and Audiovisual Communication | Knowing and advertising discourse and in the audiovisual medium, exploring the link between film and advertising strategies Know the campaign development process, from the customer’s briefing to the design of the final product. Know the communication formats used to communicate brands, products and I or services. | 3º year | 1º semester | 5 ECTS | NO The professor will occasionally do small remarks in english, in addition to an overview at the end of each class about the contents that were addressed |
| Script Writing | General Skills: Understand and apply the construction tools for audiovisual and cinematographic writing and the creation of scripts. Practice and develop arguments for short films in various stages. Specific Skills: Being able to go through all the steps of creating a cinematic narrative from the idea, passing through the various versions until the final argument. Explore and practice the different elements and techniques of creating an argument, including premise, character creation, structure, plot, dialogue, atmosphere, genre and substance. | 3º year | 1º semester | 5 ECTS | NO The professor will occasionally do small remarks in english, in addition to an overview at the end of each class about the contents that were addressed |
2º SEMESTER | |||
| Final Project/Internship | To be able to take part in this subject, foreign students need to send proofs that they are able to address all the technical and narrative issues implied. In order to do so, each student should contact Prof. João Leal – joaoleal@esmad.ipp.pt | 3º year | 2º semester | 30 ECTS | NO The professor will occasionally do small remarks in english, in addition to an overview at the end of each class about the contents that were addressed |