Offered By	ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences

This major may only be included in a Bachelor of Arts (New Media Arts) degree.

Screen media are currently one of the most prevalent formats for exchanging cultural information.  An understanding of cinematic representation underlies many of the design processes which are used in the production and reception of screen media.

Through this major, students will develop an understanding of 'cinema' as both an early and current form of new media practice. This exposition of cinema as new media will define cinema, and the many multimedia formats that are based on cinema, as a combination of creative practices, texts, formats and reception which are based on principle properties of computer digitally derived material.

Similarly to new media, cinema depends on processes that encode material in discrete samples, which use multimedia and produce texts that can be randomly accessed. Students will be able to select a number of courses that explain the many and various ways in which screens are currently used. Courses available in this major explore in different ways the relationship between many varieties of screen media and the cultural information which they encode and transmit - not only in the context of art, but also as an integral part of everyday living.

Requirements

The major in Cinemedia requires the completion of 42 units from the select list* with a maximum of 12 units of first year courses offered at 1000 level and a minimum of 30 units of later year courses.

* Please note that only the following topics within the complementary studies 1 (ARTV2100) and complementary studies 2 (ARTV2022) courses have been approved for this major 

 - Animation 1 & 2

 - Video 1 & 2

 -Web Cinema 1 & 2

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