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Program Overview

The Master of Fine Arts in imaging arts emphasizes a broad interpretation of photography as an art form. It is rooted in the belief that the study of imaging as a fine art can be enhanced by the study of imaging as an applied art, as a liberal art and as a technical art.

The master of fine arts program in imaging arts emphasizes a broad interpretation of photography as an art form, with the intention of inspiring and nurturing the individuality of each student as a creative, productive person. The program encourages graduate study in photography and related media as a means to personal, aesthetic, intellectual and career development.

The MFA curriculum provides a flexible pattern of study that is continually sensitive to the needs of each student, building upon the strengths that each individual brings to the program. Successful completion of the program enables a student to seek careers in education, museum, or gallery work, or as a self-employed professional. THIS PROGRAM REQUIRES FALL (SEPTEMBER) ENTRY WITH AN APPLICATION DEADLINE OF JANUARY 15.

Digital Photography 143 is a beginning course in digital photography. The course includes understanding the camera and its many functions including aperture and shutter speed, depth of field, white balance and ISO to name a few. The course also covers the basic tools in Photoshop as well as photography as an art form and art criticism.

Experiment with a wide range of animation techniques and understand how traditional practices relate to contemporary digital animation.
Learn about animation as a form of communication, and investigate new theories emerging from changes in technology.
Prepare yourself for working within the industry and produce a body of animation project work.

The evolution of digital technologies has given rise to a renaissance within the field of animation.

This single honours Animation degree focuses on the practical and theoretical aspects of 2D and 3D digital animation and investigates how new digital technologies have helped to re-invent animation as a visual art-form, a method of communication and a commercial tool.

Technological changes are putting animation at the centre of communication in many industries: this programme enables you to understand why this is, and equips you to enter a career in this fast-developing sector. Campus: Ormskirk Campus, Edge Hill University

UCAS: W615/E615
Course Type: Undergraduate Degree
Attendance & Study Mode: 3 years Full Time or Flexible (longer flexibly)

Start Date: September 2009

Concordia’s Cinema programs are distinguished from many others by the fact that they are housed in the Faculty of Fine Arts and thus, approach their subject matter primarily as a means of artistic expression. Consequently, a central aim of these programs is to prepare students to become filmmakers, film animators or film historians/critics who have a two-fold awareness: the artistic and cultural potential of the medium, and its history and traditions.

Cinema programs are oriented towards art and culture rather than industry and commerce. However, it should be noted that students are educated in the technical aspects of filmmaking as well as in financial and commercial factors. The programs attempt to strike a balance between the practical and the purely creative aspects of cinema, just as they seek to achieve a balance between social and aesthetic concerns.
Curriculum

Major in Film Production — 54 credits
Intended for students with a mature outlook, who possess knowledge of visual arts culture and an ability to articulate their ideas about film as an independent art form. This program provides students with a perspective on the aesthetics of creation and comprehensive knowledge of the mechanics involved in producing motion pictures. Film is viewed as a method of cultural expression and students are encouraged to explore the various cinematic techniques which will give form and shape to their ideas. Cameras, lighting, 16mm motion picture techniques, sound and editing are taught. Cinema students are also made aware of the financial and commercial aspects of filmmaking.

Specialization in Film Production — 66 credits
The Specialization is offered only at the third year level. Students in the Major may apply to transfer to the Specialization in their third year. It is strongly recommended that students in the Specialization have, or acquire, knowledge of French.

SVA began in 1947 as one of the few legitimate places on earth for cartoonists and illustrators to study their craft. This was just as cartooning was emerging as the great American popular art form we know today.

The “comic book” is now recognized as a serious creative discipline, requiring expert line and color technique, and a thorough knowledge of anatomy. The classics of the genre are the superhero comics of DC and Marvel, which deal with the theme of good vs. evil – hardly “comic” subjects. Over the decades, cartooning has matured even further, and now the exemplar of the form is the graphic novel, which tells highly complex, literate stories, often taking on politically sensitive topics.

SVA has remained in the vanguard of the art. Here, you can still learn the craft of the comics from the best, like DC legend Carmine Infantino, who created the first Batgirl comics, and study the new form with people like Ben Katchor, winner of a coveted MacArthur “genius” award. Comic innovators come here to learn the newest developments in the graphic novel, and trends in Japanese-inspired manga/anime. Our cartooning faculty is the biggest and the best of any arts college, which is only fitting, since we were the first to offer a degree in cartooning.

Whether you are preserving the old form or detonating tradition with a new one, you get the same grounding in technique at SVA. Composition and design; perspective; drawing from “real life”; color theory. Plot development and the building of dramatic narrative tension are of equal importance, since cartooning is one-half written story. You will learn how to break down the sequential action that shows the story you are telling.

Cartoonists are passionate dreamers. The really funny thing about the comic book is that something so quirky and private could be so commercially popular. Our instructors have made careers out of sharing their inner worlds. Let them into yours and see your cartoon dreams blast through into reality.