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2076

MEDIA 337

: Visualising Screen Stories
2025 Semester One (1253)
Investigates the conceptual and practical dimensions of creating visual stories for screen. Encourages students to explore aesthetic principles from film history and visual culture by using the basic tools of contemporary digital media. Students will develop screenplays, storyboards and lookbooks, and work collaboratively to create short smartphone films.
Subject: Media, Film and Television
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Media and Screen Studies
Restriction: SCREEN 201, MEDIA 237
2077

MEDIA 337

: Visualising Screen Stories
2023 Semester Two (1235)
Investigates the conceptual and practical dimensions of creating visual stories for screen. Encourages students to explore aesthetic principles from film history and visual culture by using the basic tools of contemporary digital media. Students will develop screenplays, storyboards and lookbooks, and work collaboratively to create short smartphone films.
Subject: Media, Film and Television
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Media and Screen Studies
Restriction: SCREEN 201, MEDIA 237
2078

MEDIA 338

: Creating Advertising: Text, Image, Story
2023 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.
Subject: Media, Film and Television
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Media and Screen Studies
Restriction: COMMS 309, MEDIA 238
2079

MEDIA 340

: Filmmaking
2025 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.
Subject: Media, Film and Television
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Media and Screen Studies
Restriction: SCREEN 200, 302
2080

MEDIA 340

: Filmmaking
2024 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.
Subject: Media, Film and Television
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Media and Screen Studies
Restriction: SCREEN 200, 302
2081

MEDIA 340

: Filmmaking
2023 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.
Subject: Media, Film and Television
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Media and Screen Studies
Restriction: SCREEN 200, 302
2082

MEDIA 341

: Writing Screen Stories
2024 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.
Subject: Media, Film and Television
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in English or Media and Screen Studies
Restriction: MEDIA 241
2083

MEDIA 704

: Documentary: The Real Returns
2020 Semester One (1203)
A theoretical and historical study of the documentary, focusing on significant works in the canon. The syllabus includes topics such as reality and representation; documentary modes and forms of address; ethnographies and cultural difference; documentary, politics and human rights.
Subject: Media, Film and Television
Restriction: FTVMS 704, 722
2084

MEDIA 713

: Media, Sound and Music
2025 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.
Subject: Media, Film and Television
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2085

MEDIA 713

: Media, Sound and Music
2024 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.
Subject: Media, Film and Television
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2086

MEDIA 713

: Media, Sound and Music
2023 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.
Subject: Media, Film and Television
Restriction: FTVMS 713, 730, 738
2087

MEDIA 713

: Media, Sound and Music
2022 Semester One (1223)
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.
Subject: Media, Film and Television
Restriction: FTVMS 713, 730, 738
2088

MEDIA 713

: Media, Sound and Music
2020 Semester Two (1205)
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.
Subject: Media, Film and Television
Restriction: FTVMS 713, 730, 738
2089

MEDIA 715

: Visualising Difference
2025 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.
Subject: Media, Film and Television
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2090

MEDIA 715

: Visualising Difference
2024 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.
Subject: Media, Film and Television
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2091

MEDIA 715

: Visualising Difference
2023 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.
Subject: Media, Film and Television
Restriction: FTVMS 715
2092

MEDIA 716

: Love in/Loving the Cinema
2024 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.
Subject: Media, Film and Television
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2093

MEDIA 716

: Love in/Loving the Cinema
2020 Semester One (1203)
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.
Subject: Media, Film and Television
Restriction: FTVMS 716
2094

MEDIA 717

: Ubiquitous Media
2025 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’.
Subject: Media, Film and Television
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2095

MEDIA 717

: Ubiquitous Media
2024 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’.
Subject: Media, Film and Television
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2096

MEDIA 717

: Ubiquitous Media
2023 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’.
Subject: Media, Film and Television
Restriction: FTVMS 717
2097

MEDIA 717

: Ubiquitous Media
2022 Semester Two (1225)
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’.
Subject: Media, Film and Television
Restriction: FTVMS 717
2098

MEDIA 729

: Film Evil
2025 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.
Subject: Media, Film and Television
No pre-requisites or restrictions
2099

MEDIA 729

: Film Evil
2022 Semester Two (1225)
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.
Subject: Media, Film and Television
Restriction: FTVMS 729
2100

MEDIA 741

: Time and the Moving Image
2025 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.
Subject: Media, Film and Television
No pre-requisites or restrictions