Course Description
This course is relevant to anyone who would like to learn more about the medium of film, from screenwriters to future filmmakers to analysts and critics. The course will be devoted to teaching you the language and some key moments in the history of cinema. Through the analysis of a wide variety of cinematic texts (narrative, non narrative, documentary), and filmmakers, you will be introduced to some of the significant issues of film as an artistic medium. You will learn the formal qualities of film, misé-en-scene, editing, cinematography, and sound with the goal of attaining a more attuned sense of media literacy.
Yuri Makino is an Associate Professor in the School of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of Arizona where she teaches film production and screenwriting. Ms. Makino received a M.F.A. from New York University and a B.A. with Highest Honors in Film Studies and in German Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Ms Makino is the recipient of the Emerging Artist Grant from the Contemporary Forum at the Phoenix Museum, the Arizona Commission on the Arts Visual Fellowship, two Amazon Foundation Project Grants, and the Roy W. Dean Grant, among others. Her award-winning films have screened nationally and internationally, on public television and in museums. She has worked in the independent film community and commercial industry in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York.
- Lesson 01: Early Cinema
- Lesson 02: Film Form Cinema
- Lesson 03: Classic Hollywood Cinema
- Lesson 04: Film Genre
- Lesson 05: Mise-en-Scene
- Lesson 06: Cinematography
- Lesson 07: Editing
- Lesson 08: Sound
- Lesson 09: Acting
- Lesson 10: Independent Production System
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