THE RELEVANCE OF STUDIES RELATED TO FILMING AND TELEVISIONS

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Film and television studies is somewhat a new subject area considering the fact that the film industry really came into its own in the last hundred years and like most creative industries, it is driven by technological advancement. These improvements are spread across the breadth of industry related disciplines like film and television production, an adaptation of the moving image among other aspects of the production process driven by improving technical skills through independent research.

As a result, a diverse array of films as well as television-related courses have been created by industry professionals to bridge the gap between theory and practice and ensure that the innovation that drives the film and television industry is kept alive. These degrees are awarded by certified institutions with seasoned industry professionals incorporating art and design into the framework of creative industries and preparing students for a career in an exciting creative

Environment.

Here are some major film and television courses and studies that have become increasingly relevant in the industry.

Film and Television Production

This is a practical television degree program that provides students with a thorough and global perception of the film and television industry including globally accepted standards and the latest technological improvements. It covers screenwriting, production management, idea development and a practical, result oriented research project into which work experience is embedded to help individuals launch successful careers in the film and television world.

It is open to students with the English language as their native language and international students who are interested in the industry.

Animation Techniques and Production

The constantly evolving nature of the film and television industry is clearly evident in the improving nature of visuals on display in movies and motion pictures.

Many science fiction movies employ complex animation, stop motion, 2D capture among other techniques and this is covered under the animation techniques and production course with industry based professionals providing the required knowledge and instruction about the process of creating and producing animations for different genres in creative industries.

Bachelor of Filming and Televisions

This is an undergraduate bachelor’s degree awarded by certified universities and colleges to scholars who have mastered the art of films, and television production, film making, directing, sound, cinematography, lightnings as well as typography. It is a comprehensive film and television study that serves as a solid foundation for anyone who is yet to experience the reality of the film and television industry and is considering a career in this area in the nearest future.

These courses and degrees are becoming increasingly relevant in today’s film industry because of the need to constantly keep up with rapidly changing trends, technologies, and techniques employed by industry professionals to produce high-quality movies, animated films and other creative visual projects.

There is no better time to get involved in the industry due to the pace at which it is moving compared to the progress made in the last half-century. The avenues for learning and acquiring relevant skills are numerous and the horizon keeps expanding thereby providing more access to these opportunities.

However, like most creative industries, the skills picked up can be adopted by the individual to suit their creative imagination as they embark on their own journey within the film and television industry guided by the practical teachings of the professionals that have contributed enormously to make the industry what it is today.

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• • Gateways
    BUBL (Bulletin Board for Libraries)

    http://bubl.ac.uk/

    The Moving Image Gateway

    http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/

    (MIG) produced by the BUFVC (British Universities Film & Video Council) – for websites that relate to moving images and sound and their use in higher and further education.

    PADS Performing Arts Data Service

    http://www.ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/

    collects, documents, preserves and promotes the use of scholarly digital resources in music, theatre, dance, film, and the broadcast arts.

    Researching Cultural and Creative Industries in London

    http://www.rccil.org.uk/

    (RCCIL) – an independent database of research on cultural and creative issues relevant to London. The database contains summaries of pieces of research together with bibliographical details and relevant links. The research can be browsed by theme, keyword, cultural/creative sector or London borough.

    Screenonline

    http://www.screenonline.org.uk/

    BFI guide to British film and TV history, with analysis, information and multimedia.

    Voice of the Shuttle: Media Studies

    http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2720

    for Humanities Research

    WWW Virtual Library

    http://vlib.iue.it/hist-film/Index.html

    provides Internet resources on the international History of Cinema from different approaches.
• • Specialist sites
    The Archive

    http://www.archive.org/

    Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies (documentaries) & music, as well as 150 billion archived web pages.

    BBC Classic TV

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic

    extracts of classic BBC TV and title sequence.

    BBC Nation on Film

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/nationonfilm

    archival clips of a wide range of aspects of British life.

    Creative Archive Licence

    http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/

    BFI’s contribution to the Creative Archive Licence for non-commercial re-use of archival material. BFI offers parts of the British Transport Film Archive, newsreel and silent film.

    BFI Live

    http://www.bfi.org.uk/live/

    online video channel exploring film and TV culture. Discover exclusive interviews and expert insights. Unearth unique footage and forgotten favourites. Enjoy new outlooks and different perspectives.

    BFI Mediatheque

    http://www.bfi.org.uk/node/1017

    list of films from the National Film and Television Archive which can be viewed for free on site at the BFI Southbank.

    Cinetext

    http://cinetext.philo.at/index.html

    bilingual internet forum for film and philosophy located at the University of Vienna (Austria)

    Capturing Reality – the art of documentary

    http://films.nfb.ca/capturing-reality/

    from the National Film Board of Canada, interviews with dozens of filmmakers discussing the art of the documentary, including Nick Broomfield, Malcolm Clarke, Werner Herzog and Kim Longinotto. Searchable by personality or subject category such as editing, sound, genre etc.

    Colonial Films

    http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/

    This website holds detailed information on over 6000 films showing images of life in the British colonies. Over 150 films are available for viewing online. You can search or browse for films by country, date, topic, or keyword. Over 350 of the most important films in the catalogue are presented with extensive critical notes written by our academic research team. The Colonial Film project united universities (Birkbeck and University College London) and archives (British Film Institute, Imperial War Museum and the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum) to create a new catalogue of films relating to the British Empire. The ambition of this website is to allow both colonizers and colonized to understand better the truths of Empire.

    Creative Archive Licence

    http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/

    (CLA)- the BBC, BFI , Channel 4 and the Open University set up the Creative Archive Licence Group in April 2005 to make their content available for download under the terms of the CLA, a single, shared user licence scheme for downloading of moving images, audio and stills.

    Culture Grid

    http://www.culturegrid.org.uk/

    opens up a wealth of information from museums, galleries, libraries and archives: giving greater access to UK culture, arts and heritage.

    Earlycinema.com

    http://www.earlycinema.com/

    aims to provide an introduction to the first decade of motion pictures and the developments which help shape cinema as we know it today.

    Europa Film Treasures

    http://www.europafilmtreasures.eu/

    Watch hundreds of the treasures of European cinematographic heritage online. All genres and time periods are on the playbill! From comedy to science fiction, from westerns to animation, from erotic to ethnological movies. Also includes background about each film. Available in several languages. As the site notes, users may experience viewing difficulties due to high traffic. Developed by a film restoration company in collaboration with the legal successors (when they have been identified) and depositories.

    Film-Philosophy

    http://www.film-philosophy.com/

    reviews of films and books with a philosophical perspective.

    Le Festival de Cannes

    http://www.festival-cannes.fr/

    Official site of the Cannes International Film Festival.

    Film Unlimited Preview

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/film

    Site maintained by the Guardian, with news, features, interviews and more.

    Film Festivals.com

    http://www.filmfestivals.com/

    from Film Festivals Entertainment Group provides access to information on

    major film festivals worldwide.

    ForaTV

    http://fora.tv/

    talking heads, interviews, lectures and presentations, etc.; Culture , Entertainment and Film .

    Fourdocs

    http://www.4docs.org.uk/

    Channel 4’s FourDocs site features hundreds of 4 minute documentaries from filmmakers around the world. In addition, its archive features a selection of documentary classics, including John Grierson, Humphrey Jennings, the Free Cinema group and Nick Broomfield – which can be viewed in full online. Click on a-z listing to browse the archive.

    German Cinema Inc

    http://www.german-cinema.de/

    Export-Union des Deutschen Films site, to promote German cinema, includes magazine, archive and news.

    Google Video

    http://video.google.co.uk/

    search engine for online extracts of wide range of film and television extracts.

    Imperial War Museum Collections

    http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/

    the online collections of the Museum.

    Independent Television News

    http://www.itnsource.com/

    ITN’s Film Library.

    Internet Archive of film materials

    http://www.archive.org/index.php

    San Francisco based non-profit organisation. [To exit click on the downward arrow next to Back button and select previous page/pages to exit.]

    Latin American Cinema

    http://vlib.iue.it/hist-film/latin-america.html

    pages from the WWW virtual Film History library.

    Library of Congress, American memory Project

    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

    historical film source of wide range of multimedia material of American history and culture.

    London Project: the birth of the film business in London

    http://londonfilm.bbk.ac.uk/about/project

    Luxonline

    http://www.luxonline.org.uk/

    resource for British based artists’ film and video with clips, new writings, past articles and biographies.

    Moving History: an online guide to UK film and television archives in the public sector

    http://www.movinghistory.ac.uk/

    National Archives’ Learning Curve

    http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/focuson/film/

    archival film material of British and world history. [To exit click on the downward arrow next to Back button and select previous page/pages to exit.]

    NewsFilm Online

    http://newsfilm.bufvc.ac.uk/index.php

    (NFO) Hours of [British] television news and cinema newsreels, taken from the huge collection of the ITN/Reuters archive … available online in high quality format for teaching, learning and research. Video clips cover 1920s to the present and are searchable or browsable by decade or by topic such as conflicts, disasters, lifestyle, science and technology, sports, and weather. Includes links to related sites. From the British Universities Film & Video Council.

    Public TV

    http://www.public.tv/

    online source which ‘gives fast and free access to high quality government, public sector, professional training, and business videos.’

    Ubuweb

    http://www.ubu.com/

    online resource of avant garde films
• • Ejournals
    Empire Online

    http://www.empireonline.com/

    Encyclopedia of Television

    http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/index.html

    this is the first edition of the Encyclopedia of the Museum of Broadcast Communications available online. Edited by Horace Newcomb with contributions by academics, scholars and researchers.

    Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media

    http://www.ejumpcut.org/

    this non-sectarian left and feminist publication presents material on film, television, video and related media and cultural analysis. Looking at media in its social and political context. Published irregularly, but about once a year, it includes full text of all issues (back to 1974), analyzing media in relation to class, race, and gender . Covers topics such as China and the China diaspora film, horror films, new worlds of documentary, Internet today, and more.

    Premiere

    http://www.premiere.fr/

    Le magazine du cinéma, with links to other French and international sites.

    Rouge

    http://www.rouge.com.au/

    online journal. Reviews, interviews and informed analyses of film.

    Scope

    http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/

    online peer-reviewed online journal of film studies based at the University of Nottingham.

    Screening the Past

    http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast

    an international refereed electronic journal of visual media and history.

    Senses of Cinema

    http://www.sensesofcinema.com/

    World Picture

    http://www.worldpicturejournal.com/
• • Organisations
    American Film Institute

    http://www.afi.com/

    British Film Institute

    http://www.bfi.org.uk/

    home site of the BFI, with links to many other sites

    British Board of Film Classification

    http://www.bbfc.co.uk/

    includes current news and a searchable archive

    Flow: a critical forum on television and media culture

    http://flowtv.org/