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MEDIA 338
: Creating Advertising: Text, Image, Story2023 Semester Two (1235)
Explores the connections between visual expression, cinematic storytelling and commercial persuasion. Students analyse promotional posters, advertising copy and video-based advertisements before going on to create their own persuasive media projects. This course offers a thorough introduction to advertising strategies and industrial practices, and develops students’ skills in promotional messaging and audiovisual storytelling.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Media and Screen Studies
Restriction: COMMS 309, MEDIA 238
Restriction: COMMS 309, MEDIA 238
677
MEDIA 340
: Filmmaking2025 Semester One (1253)
A hands-on exploration of the aesthetic and technical challenges of cinematic storytelling. Students are encouraged to reflect on filmmakers’ creative strategies and pursue their own choices in relation to camera, sound, lighting and editing. This limited-entry course involves a blend of lectures and studio-based workshops, and emphasises the links between cinematic ideas and the practical techniques used to realise them.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Media and Screen Studies
Restriction: SCREEN 200, 302
Restriction: SCREEN 200, 302
678
MEDIA 340
: Filmmaking2024 Semester One (1243)
A hands-on exploration of the aesthetic and technical challenges of cinematic storytelling. Students are encouraged to reflect on filmmakers’ creative strategies and pursue their own choices in relation to camera, sound, lighting and editing. This limited-entry course involves a blend of lectures and studio-based workshops, and emphasises the links between cinematic ideas and the practical techniques used to realise them.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Media and Screen Studies
Restriction: SCREEN 200, 302
Restriction: SCREEN 200, 302
679
MEDIA 340
: Filmmaking2023 Semester One (1233)
A hands-on exploration of the aesthetic and technical challenges of cinematic storytelling. Students are encouraged to reflect on filmmakers’ creative strategies and pursue their own choices in relation to camera, sound, lighting and editing. This limited-entry course involves a blend of lectures and studio-based workshops, and emphasises the links between cinematic ideas and the practical techniques used to realise them.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Media and Screen Studies
Restriction: SCREEN 200, 302
Restriction: SCREEN 200, 302
680
MEDIA 341
: Writing Screen Stories2024 Semester Two (1245)
Focuses on the fundamentals and principles of dramatic writing for screen. Encourages students to explore narrative strategies from film and television to understand the mechanics of screen stories and to write meaningful screenplays in their own voice.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in English or Media and Screen Studies
Restriction: MEDIA 241
Restriction: MEDIA 241
681
MEDIA 713
: Media, Sound and Music2025 Semester Two (1255)
Interdisciplinary scholarship on sound and music media. Topics include: listening and soundscapes; noise/music; popular culture; the politics of sound and music; audio technologies; affect, feelings and emotions; identities; stardom, celebrity and fandom; voices; material cultures; audiovisual media; social media; and the political economy of music.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
682
MEDIA 713
: Media, Sound and Music2024 Semester One (1243)
Interdisciplinary scholarship on sound and music media. Topics include: listening and soundscapes; noise/music; popular culture; the politics of sound and music; audio technologies; affect, feelings and emotions; identities; stardom, celebrity and fandom; voices; material cultures; audiovisual media; social media; and the political economy of music.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
683
MEDIA 713
: Media, Sound and Music2023 Semester One (1233)
Interdisciplinary scholarship on sound and music media. Topics include: listening and soundscapes; noise/music; popular culture; the politics of sound and music; audio technologies; affect, feelings and emotions; identities; stardom, celebrity and fandom; voices; material cultures; audiovisual media; social media; and the political economy of music.
Restriction: FTVMS 713, 730, 738
684
MEDIA 715
: Visualising Difference2025 Semester One (1253)
Critically examines the representation of racial and ethnic difference in cinema and broadcast television. This course explores and discusses how difference has been conceptualised in colonial, post-colonial, and multicultural frameworks using examples from the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
685
MEDIA 715
: Visualising Difference2024 Semester One (1243)
Critically examines the representation of racial and ethnic difference in cinema and broadcast television. This course explores and discusses how difference has been conceptualised in colonial, post-colonial, and multicultural frameworks using examples from the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
686
MEDIA 715
: Visualising Difference2023 Semester Two (1235)
Critically examines the representation of racial and ethnic difference in cinema and broadcast television. This course explores and discusses how difference has been conceptualised in colonial, post-colonial, and multicultural frameworks using examples from the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Restriction: FTVMS 715
687
MEDIA 716
: Love in/Loving the Cinema2024 Semester Two (1245)
Critically examines the theme of love in the cinema. Looks at why the love story has been such a staple of movie narratives and what films can teach us about love. Also explores the nature of the love of cinema itself, cinephilia.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
688
MEDIA 717
: Ubiquitous Media2025 Semester One (1253)
Ubiquitous computing has led to an increasingly mediatised world known as the ‘Internet of things’. With the increased use of tags and sensors, the development of smart environments means that communication and information media increasingly shape our world and define our relations with others. This interdisciplinary course interrogates the philosophical, social and political implications of the move from software to 'everyware’.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
689
MEDIA 717
: Ubiquitous Media2024 Semester Two (1245)
Ubiquitous computing has led to an increasingly mediatised world known as the ‘Internet of things’. With the increased use of tags and sensors, the development of smart environments means that communication and information media increasingly shape our world and define our relations with others. This interdisciplinary course interrogates the philosophical, social and political implications of the move from software to 'everyware’.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
690
MEDIA 717
: Ubiquitous Media2023 Semester Two (1235)
Ubiquitous computing has led to an increasingly mediatised world known as the ‘Internet of things’. With the increased use of tags and sensors, the development of smart environments means that communication and information media increasingly shape our world and define our relations with others. This interdisciplinary course interrogates the philosophical, social and political implications of the move from software to 'everyware’.
Restriction: FTVMS 717
691
MEDIA 729
: Film Evil2025 Semester Two (1255)
Explores the theme of evil in the cinema. What films can teach about evil and why it is that conceptions of evil - its nature and source as well as distinctions between natural and moral evil - have formed so much of the subject matter of cinema. The course also considers the proposition that some films may themselves be evil.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
692
MEDIA 741
: Time and the Moving Image2025 Semester Two (1255)
Explores how moving images mediate our experience of time, from the actualités of early cinema to video games and digital special effects. Addresses the representation and articulation of time across documentary and narrative cinema, experimental film and video, television and new media, with reference to key concepts in philosophy and media theory.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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MEDIA 741
: Time and the Moving Image2024 Semester One (1243)
Explores how moving images mediate our experience of time, from the actualités of early cinema to video games and digital special effects. Addresses the representation and articulation of time across documentary and narrative cinema, experimental film and video, television and new media, with reference to key concepts in philosophy and media theory.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
694
MEDIA 741
: Time and the Moving Image2023 Semester One (1233)
Explores how moving images mediate our experience of time, from the actualités of early cinema to video games and digital special effects. Addresses the representation and articulation of time across documentary and narrative cinema, experimental film and video, television and new media, with reference to key concepts in philosophy and media theory.
Restriction: FTVMS 741
695
MEDIA 743
: Chinese Film Genres2025 Semester One (1253)
Explores the evolution of major film genres of the Chinese-language cinemas (i.e., cinemas of mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Chinese diaspora). Investigates the formal styles of such genres as melodrama, youth, avant-garde, and documentary as well as how the changing styles reflect some big issues of sociocultural significances.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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MEDIA 743
: Chinese Film Genres2024 Semester Two (1245)
Explores the evolution of major film genres of the Chinese-language cinemas (i.e., cinemas of mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Chinese diaspora). Investigates the formal styles of such genres as melodrama, youth, avant-garde, and documentary as well as how the changing styles reflect some big issues of sociocultural significances.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
697
MUSEUMS 700
: Exhibiting Cultures: International2024 Semester Two (1245)
Investigates the presentation of cultures in museums, art galleries and other sites globally, the strategies of public exhibitions, and the role of curators and institutions in identity formation and nationalism. Case studies are drawn from international and indigenous practice, as well as regional examples from Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific.
Restriction: ARTHIST 715, 721, 736, MUSEUMS 701, 703, 704
698
MUSEUMS 700
: Exhibiting Cultures: International2023 Semester Two (1235)
Investigates the presentation of cultures in museums, art galleries and other sites globally, the strategies of public exhibitions, and the role of curators and institutions in identity formation and nationalism. Case studies are drawn from international and indigenous practice, as well as regional examples from Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific.
Restriction: ARTHIST 715, 721, 736, MUSEUMS 701, 703, 704
699
MUSEUMS 700
: Exhibiting Cultures: International2022 Semester Two (1225)
Investigates the presentation of cultures in museums, art galleries and other sites globally, the strategies of public exhibitions, and the role of curators and institutions in identity formation and nationalism. Case studies are drawn from international and indigenous practice, as well as regional examples from Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific.
Restriction: ARTHIST 715, 721, 736, MUSEUMS 701, 703, 704
700
MUSEUMS 702
: Inside the Museum2025 Semester Two (1255)
Provides a foundation in the best practices, critical issues, and the future of museology and introduces students to a variety of museum collection-based activities through experiential education at the Auckland War Memorial Museum/Tāmaki Paenga Hira.
No pre-requisites or restrictions