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Kino Eyes final thesis/dissertation consists of three elements:

All these three elements are developed throughout the second year of the program in different subject and then finally publically presented and discussed at the end of the year.

The Advance Short fiction Development and Production subject specifically deals with the development by the students of the short fiction film. In the Research and development for final project production students will develop both the Report and the Feature Film package.

The syllabus is based on a tutoring approach whereby students have weekly meetings by specialization with the mentor for that area and present progress reports and discuss materials and also weekly meetings per project with the mentor for that project in order to discuss their projects status.

Objectives

The main learning objective of this course unit is to support students in developing their final short-fiction film. Objectives include the completion of the script; production package with final budget and distribution strategy and all other elements per specialization as defined in the requisites for green-light. Main deliver is the short in itself plus the package with required elements per spesialisation.

Objectives of the curricular unit:

Production module

To assure the students understanding and hability to use the tools and techniques involved in capturing attention, creating emotions, value and trust through the use of words and other presentational skills, crucial in the early stages of the development of a film project and distribution. Complementary objectives includ the improvement of research skills particularly regarding the production distribution and BO of low budgets films worldwide.

Screenwriting module

More information soon.

Directing module

The main objective of this unit is to study, learn, discuss the ways to transform, adapt and discover the visual platform where the story/script will be materialized.  How to realize the visuals from the ideas, how to reflect on the ways the aesthethic can tell more and give more to film and how to do it. The importance of it is essencial to the filmmaker and to the film itself. 

Cinematography module

To be able to interpret a script and to adapt the aesthetics chosen to create the photographic mood of the film.

To be able to manage the needs of the director with the constraints of the budget. To be able to plan equipment lists. To be able to work in a team with Producer, Director and Art department. To develop skills to work with his crew members from the camera department to grip and electrical departments. To be able to adapt the characteristics of the work with the project subject, genre and type. 

Editing module

Identify techniques, art and aesthetics of editing and visual effects. Learn and apply the principles of editing and film post-production. Explore the creative potentials of new digital cinema technologies through editing and compositing software. It is the aim of this unit that the use of the resources available at the university reflects not only the skills mentioned above, but to encourage the creative exploration of digital filmmaking.

Sound module

The module focuses on the study of sound production for film emphasizing on various historical and theoretical concepts regarding contemporary audiovisual communication strategies. Audio production technical skills are complemented by creative, artistic and aesthetic references concerning the relationship between sound and the moving image. In order to increase and achieve creative competences students are stimulated to develop analytical and critical thought embracing new perspectives that will provide a comprehension of the various semiotic and aesthetic approaches that contribute to the communicational efficiency of a film. Through the understanding of the mechanisms that favor the articulation between sound (music) and image, the meaning or signification process and reception, students will cover new theoretical grounds for their film projects and a better understanding of its role in society and culture.

This module also favors the acquisition of technical and creative competences of the sound production process. Students are stimulated to develop and expand their recording, audio editing and mixing skills focusing on the composition of sound structures and narratives by incorporating voice, sound files from libraries, music, sound effects, sound design and restoration strategies for film projects.

Assessment

Portfolio composed by four assignments and learning log.

Emphasis in the assessment of the portfolio will take into account creativity, professionalism, technical skill, and application to the specific brief.

Emphasis in the assessment of learning log will take into account evidence of learning, creative research, coherent argument and critical reflection.

Objectives

• Enhance your craft skills and technical confidence;
• Explore a range of ideas about screenwriting craft (including screenwriting manuals);
• Find methods and tools that work for you;
• Use this new knowledge to develop your KEM short and feature projects and future work.

Audiovisual Dramaturgy for Editors

ECTS Credits: 5

Course Aims: The aim of this course is to give the knowledge and skills of the creation and analysis of audiovisual dramaturgy to the students studying on the technical specialisations.

Brief description of the course: Lectures and seminars where the creation of audiovisual dramaturgy is analysed and independent creative exercises done.

Upon completing the course the student:

• has ability to recognise and analyse the use of audiovisual dramaturgy.
• has ability to create and realise ideas that incorporate the methods of audiovisual dramaturgy in student's individual creative works.

Teacher: TBC

Audiovisual Dramaturgy for Sound Designers

ECTS Credits: 5

Course Aims: The aim of this course is to give the knowledge and skills of the creation and analysis of audiovisual dramaturgy to the students studying on the technical specialisations.

Brief description of the course: Lectures and seminars where the creation of audiovisual dramaturgy is analysed and independent creative exercises done.

Upon completing the course the student:

• has ability to recognise and analyse the use of audiovisual dramaturgy;
• has ability to create and realise ideas that incorporate the methods of audiovisual dramaturgy in student's individual creative works.

Teacher: Larry Sider

Audiovisual Dramaturgy for Cinematographers

ECTS Credits: 5

Course Aims: The aim of this course is to give the knowledge and skills of the creation and analysis of audiovisual dramaturgy to the students studying on the technical specialisations.

Brief description of the course: Lectures and seminars where the creation of audiovisual dramaturgy is analysed and independent creative exercises done.

Upon completing the course the student:

• has ability to recognise and analyse the use of audiovisual dramaturgy;
• has ability to create and realise ideas that incorporate the methods of audiovisual dramaturgy in student's individual creative works.

Teacher: Timo Heinänen

Contents

Fiction production project concerns the development of the two fiction oriented elements that compose Kino Eyes curriculum: the short-fiction film and the feature film package.

Kino Eyes final Submission Thesis consists of three elements of which only the two mentioned above are considered. The three elements are:

• One individual written thesis in the form of a report that can either be a research or a technical Report and described on the syllabus for the individual thesis subject;
• One collective project called “Feature film Package” that includes the development of a complete production package for a feature film proposal;
• One collective project – “The short Film” – consisting of a finished fiction short film and production package.

All these three elements are developed throughout the second year of the program in different subjects and then finally submitted and discussed at the end of the academic year. In the case of this particular subject, it concerns the short fiction and the feature film package.

The Feature Film Package is one of the documents to be submitted by the students as part of their final submission under this subject. This Package has no fix dimension and both paper and digital versions should be submitted including as many visual elements as desired by the team. This package is a collective – team based – project, but individual parts considering each of the specializations within Kino Eyes are considered.

The main objectives of the Feature Film Package are:

• To provide students with an instrument that depicts their ability to develop and produce a feature film;
• To provide students with a digital repository of the complete development package of a feature film;
• To provide students with a package for the actual development of a feature film that they can – as a team or individuals – present to potential producers and/or distributors/investors. Future development of the Feature Film Package is always dependable of the written consent of the schools in the consortium;
• To train students in the mechanisms of preparing a proposal for a feature Film development following “real world” premises and models.

The last element is the short fiction- This should be an Audiovisual fully completed piece with a duration not superior to 30 minutes. The film can be spoken in any language but English subtitling is then compulsory.

ECTS Credits: 5

Course Aims: Course gives an overview of film production technical workflows, terms and historical development. Lectures cover both theoretical and practical aspects of camerawork, sound recording, picture editing, sound mixing, color grading and mastering to various delivery formats.

Brief description of the course:

Course gives an overview of film production technical workflows, terms and historical development.

Lectures cover both theoretical and practical aspects of camerawork, sound recording, picture editing, sound mixing, color grading and mastering to various delivery formats.

Introduction of digital post-production for film and video.

Workflow for digital cinema.

Digital cameras.

Media management systems.

Montage systems.

Systems of composition and visual effects.

Colour correction systems (Color Grading). ACES workflow.

Creating masters and DCP’s.

After completion the student: Has an overview of workflow terms and historical development; uses contemporary technologies in the context of the whole workflow Does workflow tests taking into account the final result; makes workflow choices based on financial, creative and technological factors.

Teacher: Tarmo Rajaleid

The purpose of this module is to practise the ability of the student to conduct independent analyses of audio-visual works of cinema and media, and situate these in a wider theoretical and analytical context. The following topics are usually covered: aesthetics, psychological, sociological and other central theories and methods used to analyse audio-visual works; the audio-visual media's genres, language and aesthetics and analysis of individual works or groups of works on the basis of film theory. The course aims to create a fresh perspective on classic and modern themes and topics among film and media studies, and exemplify productive perspectives by using specific case studies on these questions. A central goal here is to provide students with background, scope and perspectives of the issue of film analysis, since it will facilitate their understanding of the phenomenon, and give them possibilities to critically relate these matters and perspectives.

Assessment

• Seminar work
• Interim draft essay
• Final essay

About

In this module you will undertake a programme of critical film research at the same time as developing your own final trimester film project. This is intended to enable yo ur research to inform and deepen your creative practice as you start to plan this project.

Module content

Lectures, seminars and discussions of key topics in the critical study of the cinema

Learning Outcomes

• Critically reflect on appropriate research methods for a research topic;
• Plan a viable research programme;
• Critically analyse film texts in the context of your own creative practice;
• Appraise the impact of your findings on your own developing creative practice;
• Defend the conclusions of your analysis with peers and potential collaborators;
• Produce clearly defined, rigorous, and detailed arguments in written and presentational form.

Assessment

• Class presentations
• Interim Essay
• Final Essay

Assessments

Portfolio: each Producer/Writer/Director team is required to submit a Portfolio containing:

• a 15-page short film drama Screenplay
• a Short Film Production Package
• a 2-page Feature Film narrative Outline
• a Feature Film Proposal
• a 2-page short film drama Screenplay

Learning Log: Each individual student is required to submit a Learning Log reflecting on and analysing their work on the module and specifically relating the nature of their involvement in the construction of the Portfolio (above). This will account for 30% of the overall module assessment.

Module content

On this module you will conceptualise and develop your graduation short film projects (to be produced in the 2nd year of the programme). In many film schools auteur writer/directors lead the development and production of screen projects. Industry typically adopts a different approach, in which producers initiate and drive project development in close collaboration with writers and directors. In this module you will critique these and other models for development, and work as a creative triumvirate of producer/writer/director. Further practical and critical examination of the craft of development, through individual and group research and workshops will lead towards the creation and development of original, achievable fiction screenplays and associated development materials.

The Short Film Production Package will be executed at a professional standard to a stage of development at which it would be ready, in an industry context, to submit to potential financiers. The Feature Film Proposal will contain sufficien information to allow the feature film projects to progress towards Production Packages during the second year of the programme.

The module’s Portfolio and Learning Log Assessments will help you analyse and reflect on the effectiveness of your contributions to the project development process.This programme is part of a suite of complementary programmes running within creen Academy Scotland. Students from all programmes are involved in common masterclasses and professional practice events. Cross-programme collaborations are actively encouraged.

Module Expectations

In the first Semester in Lisbon students were encouraged to experience working on the development of ideas with a number of their classmates.

Now, moving forward, creative teams have been formed (each team ideally consisting of Producer/Writer/Director in Edinburgh and Cinematographer/Editor/Sound Designer in Tallinn). Each team will develop a short film project and a feature film project (which may or may not be associated) and are committed to being assessed on work developed within their team.

More information soon.

Contents.

Kino Eyes final Submission consists of three elements:

All these three elements are developed throughout the second year of the program in different subjects and then finally submitted and discussed at the end of the academic year

Contents:

This theoretical and practical module provides students with an understanding of the elements of entrepreneurship and of basic management tools. The workshop aims at raising the students_ awareness of entrepreneurship on film and television within the contexts of media eco-systems, market forces and consumer trends. Students will learn how to identify different professional outcomes and to assess career management and business creation with the help of case studies and the development of a creative idea into a business plan fit for to be presented to investors and financing institutions.

Objectives:

The workshop aims to stage the set for helping film and television students understand the basic characteristics of entrepreneurship and to develop entrepreneurial projects in the realm of the creative industries. Students will become aware of the need to and how to develop from inception creative projects that address entrepreneurial, managerial, market and technological factors in order to increase the chances of successful financing and market launch. Students will become more empowered to present, discuss and persuade international investors and financing institutions to invest in creative projects conceived from inception to address the commercial needs of global or specific audiences, platforms and markets.

Students will acquire expertise, knowledge, skills and competences to access to international professional networks, to collaborate with non-European professionals and to network with investment decision makers. The workshop will provide students with basic tools for acting on a global scale taking advantage of digital technologies and to promote the cross fertilization of ideas and experiences. Students will learn basic management concepts and modern management techniques through the development of a business plan and the theoretical testing of new business models and audience development strategies.

Objectives of the curricular unit

The core objective of this curricular unit is to provide students with an overview of how the film and moving image industry operates today in Europe and how its current configuration has been shaped by several variables in the past that nowadays inform its operation.

From the study of these core elements we will draw conclusions on the transformations taking place today in the industry and the opportunities thereof arising.

Complementarily the subject intends to provide the students with rudimentary knowledge on the financial and legal mechanisms relevant for this activity.

Lastly, the subject will introduce the students to several research methods relevant not only for the understating of the market and industry operation, but also for their future research development.

After completion of the subject students will be able to:

• Identify and describe the core elements of the film and media industries value chain
• Identify the main competitive drivers of these activities at an international level
• Understand the main financial drivers and variables of the business
• Understand and describe the role of the different actors in the industry: audiences; producers; distributors; etc...
• Understand the differences between the European Market and other international markets (i.e USA, India, others)
• Identify opportunities and possibilities arousing from the changing technological landscape
• Identify the new formats and genres the film industry is involved in
• Apply in the context of market or academic research the core research methods and techniques relevant for this field of study

Objectives of the curricular unit

• An understanding of the diversity and unity of European film culture
• An understanding of the European Cinematic Language from the 20th century
• An insight of the basic principles of film restoration and preservation
• Inspiration for own projects

Syllabus

Self portrait in visual culture, history of self portraiture, self portrait in video and film between documentary and fiction.

Objectives

This module proposes to reassess the theory and practice of self-portraiture, through its analysis in visual culture as well as the creation of a “first person film” to practice step by step this new video/cinematographic genre.

ECTS Credits: 10

Course Aims:Goal of the course is to understand and participate in the process cinematographers have to take when preparing to shoot a feature film or long format series. From reading the script to previsualization, location scouting, shooting tests and deciding the schedule. Also to understand different genres and approaches to visual storytelling. What can the cinematographer bring to the project according to the source material and the director's vision? Complementarity, the subject will acquire knowledge about the Pre-Production Package that’s part of the 2nd year graduation project.

Brief description of the course:Lectures, seminars and independent exercises that help the students to learn and practice different stages of feature film cinematography.

Learning Outcomes of the course

After the completion of the course the student has the skills and knowledge of methods how to:

• read, interpret and analyze film from a cinematographers viewpoint.
• plan and execute a full-length feature film while taking into account the timeframes and different stages of film creation:
• prepare the film both technically and artistically: from previsualization to camera tests and scheduling.
• approach projects in different ways and use all the possibilities of visual language

Teacher: Mart Raun

ECTS Credits 5

Course Aims: The goal of the course is to give the cinematographers, editors and sound designers knowledge about reception psychology that can be used in their respective practices. This course is focused on the way human perception and aspects of the psychology of senses affect the way filmmakers work. The origins of composition, be it visual, audial or temporal, can all be traced back to the features of human perception. The course will explore the phenomenon of perception through lectures and discussions and through analysis will show its implications on filmmaking.

Brief description of the course: Lectures and seminars about the basics of reception psychology, theoretical concepts inherent in reception psychology and practical exercises where the concepts of reception psychology are tested.

Upon completing the course the student:

• has ability to use the knowledge of reception psychology in creative work.

Teacher: Elen Lotman

ECTS Credits: 10

Course Aims:The aim of this course is to give the students knowledge and experiences to feature film editing.

Brief description of the course:The overall aim is to produce practitioners to work in the industry, who are not only highly skilled but individual, creative, critically aware, innovative and professional in their approach to the collaborative process of film and program making.

Through extensive analysis of different films, the student will understand the grammar of cinema at its depth. Using the raw material of a professionally produced feature film, the students edit their own version of a feature film, in order to learn the dynamics and gain experience of a feature structure.

Aims:

• to develop the editing students' creative, intellectual and critical potential from a wide range of audio-visual information and experiences
• to develop editor skills in both thinking and feeling by analyzing the structures of feature films in both large scale (whole film) as well as micro level (scene, shot)
• to encourage an understanding that every film has it’s own unique rhythm and creative approach to storytelling, finding of which lies on the shoulders of an editor
• to provide space and time for personal development through a range of experiences - inquiry, discovery and reflection
• to provide experience of analyzing different editing methods
• to provide practical experience of feature film editing by constructing a feature film structure, rhythm and finding a unique voice from the material

Learning Outcomes of the course

• ability to identify the overall structure of a film
• a high level of critical awareness together with an ability to articulate and communicate ideas through critical debate
• a mature audiovisual awareness to image and rhythm construction work of an increasing ambition and quality
• the beginnings of an ability to identify projects individual voice and using that in editing
• communicate his/her ideas to the director and other crew, writing an editors vision for a feature project by suggesting the possible rhythm for a film in development phase
• understand how his/her decisions have changed the film’s story and the impact on audience

Teacher: Mirjam Jegorov

Content

Kino Eyes final thesis/dissertation consists of three elements:

• One individual report that can either be a research or a technical Report;
• One collective project called “Feature film Package” that includes the development of a complete production package for a feature film proposal;
• One collective project – “The short Film” – consisting of a finished fiction short film + production package per specialisation.

All these three elements are developed throughout the second year of the program in different subject and then finally publically presented and discussed at the end of the year.

The research and Development subject specifically deals with the development by the students of the report component of their thesis (either research or technical) and the Feature Film package, while in the “Advance Short fiction development and production – creative voicing” they will work on their final shorts and complete all pre-production and production of the Shorts.

Half of the syllabus concerns the individual development of thesis work done by students in mentoring sessions. During live sessions to be run during the semester, students will present their proposals. In the case of the report, the first session will be held in the first week of October and the students will present the thesis statement (respecting the template in use). Then in the week of the 11th of December students will present a first draft of their report.

The second half of the syllabus concerns the development of the feature film package. The same mentoring approach will once again be followed with one mentor being assigned to each project and one mentor supervising the overall development of the package.

Objectives

The main learning objective of this curricular unit is to support students in developing two of the core elements in their dissertation work: the report and the feature film package. To the extent that a substantial portion of this works involve the actual completion of several production elements and a work of critical reflection upon those, it is expected that other learning goals will be the expansion and consolidation of the students research oriented skills but also their ability to understand the entire process of project development, namely on what concerns feature film, and the activities involved in developing and producing a new project.

ECTS Credits: 10

Course Aims:This is a course in film production skills while working in a feature length film. The course will provide experiences in developing skills in sound recording, sound editing, and sound design of a feature film.

Brief description of the course:The overall aim is to produce practitioners to work in the industry, who are not only highly skilled but individual, creative, critically aware, innovative and professional in their approach to the collaborative process of making film or any other kind of AV content.

Using the latest equipment and technology, students develop their skills in digital tracklaying, editing, sound design and mixing.

Aims:

• to develop the sound students' creative, intellectual and critical potential by working and analyzing the wide range of audio-visual content and information.
• to encourage and develop personality and individuality through a creative approach to sound and film making.
• to provide space and time for personal development through a range of experiences, inquiry, discovery and reflection.
• to provide practical experience of film and AV production techniques from concept to delivery.
• to be conversant with current creative and technological issues and prepare to challenge the boundaries in the future

Learning Outcomes of the course

• ability to analyze and explore a needs and problems of a film or other audio-visual material while applying practical solutions to solve them.
• a mature aural awareness to sound design and post-production procedures.
• work of increasing ambition and quality.
• personality and individual approach.
• a high level of critical awareness together with an ability to articulate and communicate ideas through a critical debate.
• preparing a sound design for an animation or fiction production.
• recording, editing and mixing on high technical standards.
• operating Pro Tools in an efficient way.

Teacher: Harmo Kallaste

Content

The Curricular Unit is theoretical and practical, with an alternation between class presentations, demonstration and participatory methods.

Plan to acquire knowledge:

• Define and characterize transmedia;
• Understand the key concepts associated with transmedia;
• Meet some of the most significant examples of transmedia in different genres.

Objectives

• Develop the creative concept of an original transmedia project;
• Plan and implement a transmedia project;
• Communicate in a clear and coherent self-understanding manner the issues that constitute the programme of the curricular unit.