Course Instructor: Dr Robert Hyland - hylandr@queensu.ca
In Summary:
This course involves both media studies and production. Students will use their own mobile devices to complete a series of creative projects, while learning theoretical and practical aspects of mobile media communications.
Course Highlights: 
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All you need at your fingertips! Use your own mobile devices and laptops to complete a series of creative projects.
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Explore how filmmakers toy with concepts such as colour, time, composition and framing to achieve the desired effects.
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Put all that you have learned into practice by producing a showcase short film at the end of the term.
Course Information:
In this course, we'll be learning how to use our phones to create digital, visual content. We'll be creating and regularly adding to a photo portfolio, and we'll create two short films as the term progresses. You don't need to have any experience in photography, or any specialist equipment. Just a phone and a laptop will do. However, if you do have a camera and a tripod, you'll learn how to get the most out of your equipment.
But the most important tool that you'll be learning to use in this course, is your own creativity.
Learning Outcomes:
After completing this course, students should be able to:
- Develop a story idea.
- Develop and construct a script.
- Develop visual treatment of a script.
- Create a photography portfolio.
- Produce a finished film.
Experiential and Active Learning Opportunities:
Examples of previous EAL opportunities for this course include: A visit to the Photographers Gallery in London to view the Helen Levett Retrospective and a Student Film Festival held at Bader College, where students presented their work and answered questions from the audience in a Q&A session afterwards.
Prerequisites and Exclusions:
None
Course applicable to the following Majors/Medials/Minors:
FILM (option)
