Overall objectives:

1 - The course aims at giving students a basic understanding of the different languages, the technical aspects and the methodologies of production that enable an integrated and creative use of the audiovisual field. Students are expected to work with reality depiction mediums, fundamental in today?s world, and to focus on both still and moving images.
2 - With theoretical and practical nature, this curricular unit is made of expository lectures, with explanation of contents through features such as pictures, films and audiovisual schemes, and with bibliographic support when needed. The practical work will be individual and/ or group. The activities are proposed and accompanied by the professor.

Syllabus:

1 - A brief technical history of photography;
2 - The photographic language and process
3 - Processing and image manipulation
4 - Brief introduction to graphic design and typography
5 - Introduction to 2D graphics software
6 - From still images to moving images. Precinema, Graphic Cinema, Animation
7 - A brief technical history of film and video
8 - Time, motion and sequence.
9 - The moving image: the audiovisual narrative. Fiction and non-fiction.
10 - Learning to develop a video project: sketches, studies, storyboards, animatics
11 - Introduction to editing (linear and non-linear)

Literature/Sources:

J Berger , s/d , Modos de ver , Edições 70
RANCIÈRE, JACQUES , 2010 , O espectador emancipado , Lisboa, Orfeu Negro
M. SOUGEZ , 2001 , História da Fotografia , Dinalivro
BARTHES, Roland , 2017 , A Câmara Clara. Nota sobre a fotografia , Edições 70
FLUSSER, Vilém , 1998 , Ensaio Sobre a Fotografia. Para uma Filosofia da Técnica , Relógio de Água
E. Bertolotti, H. Daam, F. Piredda,V.Tassinari , 2016 , Pearl Diver. The Designer as Storyteller , Pearl Diver. The Designer as Storyteller
Bendazzi, G. , 2016 , Animation: a world history. , London: CRC Press

Assesssment methods and criteria:

Classification Type: Quantitativa (0-20)

Evaluation Methodology:
Classification Type: Quantitative (0-20) Evaluation Methodology: 1. Image practical work: 40% (8 points); 2. Video practical work: 40% (8 points); 3. Global test: 20% (4 points). a) The student can only go to appeal exam after having completed a minimum of 60% of the overall evaluation. b) In the appeal exam, the student can only recover the first work and the global test (60%). c) The works will only be accepted up to two days after delivery date, being then subjected to a penalty (0,5 points for each day late) unless duly justified according to current regulation.