Film Canada Yearbook (1999)

De es » Ruel s. aut Program in Image Arts. It offers a comprehensive academic framework for undergraduate studies in the theory and practice of film and video leading not only to career choices in the Canadian screen industries but to further Scholarly activity at the graduate level. This program is designed to create flexible, quick-thinking, highly adaptable film/video makers capable of working effectively in an enormous variety of circumstances, and able to take advantage of many different artistic and commercial opportunities and challenges in order to create personal visions in the media that will contribute to our culture and to the growth of the Canadian voice in international film & video. Required courses are technology Studies, film/video/audio production, digital applications, theory, art history, film history, design, photography, screenwriting and the business of film. Professional electives are taken in 2nd, 3rd and 4th years and include screenwriting, sound design for visual media, film craft workshops, lighting design, authoring for new media, digital animation, production design and scenography, directing screen performance and cinematography. Professionally related electives and liberal Studies are also part of the program. The Program is supported by extensive teaching facilities including a 275-square-metre shooting stage, 8-track digital recording studio, transferring, dubbing and foley facilities, up to 10-track 16 mm. mixing, black & white film laboratory, screening facilities, extensive editing facilities, professional camera and sound recording equipment, broadcast quality video production and post-production facilities, film to video transfer and an extensive film library. The school also offers professional cinematography < courses in partnership with Wm. F. White Ltd. taught by members of ASC and CSC. These are intended for career development and professional upgrading. Member of C.1.L.E.C.T. Awards Membership in C.1.L.E.C.T. provides student eligibility for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Honorary Foreign Student Film Award. Fourth-year students are eligible for the Norman Jewison Filmmaker Awards, the Harvey Hart Director’s Award, the City of Toronto Apprenticeship Screen Award and the National Apprenticeship Training Program Awards. Third-year students are eligible for the Norman Jewison Filmmaker Awards, the Nick Holeris Memorial Award for screenwriting and the Medallion/PFA Award for excellence in cinematography. Thirdand fourth-year students are also eligible for the Charles Street Video Award. Second-year students are eligible for the Elvino Sauro Film Award and other awards. SENECA COLLEGE Digital Media Centre 21 Beverley Hills Dr. Toronto, ON M3L 1A2 (416) 491-5050 Fax: (416) 235-0462 E-mail: dmc @senecac.on.ca Website: http://dmc.senecac.on.ca Contact: Gina Bailey (416) 491-5050 Ext. 4351 FILM CANADA YEARBOOK ° 1999 Intensive 16-week course taught in professional training environment equipped with Silicon Graphics Octane R10000 and O, workstations networked to an Origin2000 server with multiple processors. DAT backup is available for student project storage and facility includes computer and video hardware for high quality final output to tape. Each system comes configured with advanced animation and visual effects software such as Softimage 3D Extreme, Alias/Wavefront and Amazon 3D Paint. Classes run three times a year and topics covered will include Unix, storyboarding, modelling, character animation, lighting and textures, visual effects, 3D paint techniques, rendering, compositing tools and motion capture techniques. SHERIDAN COLLEGE* 1430 Trafalgar Rd. Oakville, ON L6H 2L1 (905) 845-9430, Ext. 2738 Media Arts: A multi-discipline three-year Program offering production, craft and theory courses in multimedia, video production, 16mm film, and audio post-production. After an introductory year, students select a major, developing a full range of media skills and knowledge before taking field placement in year three. Computer Animation: Offering a one-year post-diploma program for graduates of a threeyear program in a visual arts discipline. This program, which is designed specifically for artists, designers and animators, offers a blend of advanced three-dimensional computer animation along with the established approaches to traditional animation. The technical and systems instruction are complemented by instruction in the classic methodologies, design and filmic aspects to computer animation. The Department's facilities include an integrated network environment of Unix workstations with the support of leading industry developers of animation software. “Not updated for 1999 THE TORONTO SCHOOL OF BUSINESS 419 King St. W. Oshawa ON L1J 2K5 (905) 723-1163 Fax: (905) 433-8962 Contact: Elly Gotz Computer graphics training / modelling / animation TSB SCHOOL OF ANIMATION Toronto School of Business Oshawa Centre Oshawa, ON L1J 2K5 (905) 723-1163 Fax: (905) 433-8962 Contact: Elly Gotz Training in computer animation with SGI Alias/Wavefront a aa TE COURSES UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (Innis College) 2 Sussex Ave. Toronto, ON M5S 1J5 (416) 978-5809 / 7271 The Cinema Studies Program offers _ undergraduate specialist, major and minor programs with 40 courses in film history, theory and criticism taught by about 30 instructors through the Faculty of Arts and Science. There are no courses in practical film production. Students include their Cinema Studies Program within either a 20-course (Honours) B.A. degree program or a 15-course B.A. degree program. — Courses reflect the notion that Cinema Studies is an independent discipline within the humanities: films are the subject/object of study. In addition to core-courses in film analysis, history and theory offered at Innis College, the program offers courses on a wide range of National Cinemas: American, English Canadian, Czech and Slovak, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Quebec, Scandinavian, Soviet, and Spanish and Latin American. Interdisciplinary film courses are available through the Departments of Anthropology, History, Study of Religion and Sociology, and by programs in Canadian Studies, Literary Studies, Semiotics and Women's Studies. Senior specialists take limited enrolment seminars or independent study in film. Qualified non-degree “Special Students” are welcome in most of these courses. UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1 (519) 885-1211, Ext. 3709 / 2442 Fax: (519) 746-4982 Website: www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/fine/juhde/film.htm Film Studies Program offered by the Fine Arts Department. B.A. Honours (4-year), B.A. General (4and 3year); also Minor & Joint Honours in Film Studies. Courses: History of Film, Film & TV Theory/Criticism, French, East European, Italian Film, Science Fiction Cinema, Religion and Film, special topics in Film. UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO English Dept. Undergraduate Studies University College, Rm. 182 London, ON N6A 3K7 (519) 679-2111 ext. 5796 Area of concentration in film and combined honours in film and another subject. Courses: Introduction to Film, American Film, Film Comedy/Film Genres, Canadian Film, National Cinemas: Special Topics, World Cinema, Representation of Gender, Avant-Garde Cinema, Contemporary Film, Canadian Cinema: Special Topics, Film Aesthetics, Film Theory, Advanced Film Theory, Documentary Film, Special Topics, Film Directors/Auteurs: Special Topics, Seminar in Film 177