Photography and Cinema

Code:

MM0043

Acronym:

FC

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Visual Arts

Instance: 2023/2024 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Informatics Engineering
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Multimedia

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MM	17	Syllabus	1	-	6	45	162
			2

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

— Acquire historical and technical knowledge about visual devices (still image and moving image);
— Ability to record photographs knowing how to apply notions of depth of field and shutter speed;
— Knowing how to identify the main movements in the history of photography and their relationship with contemporaneity;
— Understand the relationships between images, the photographic narrative and its relationships with the cinematographic context;
— Deepen critical thinking about image in the artistic context;
— Expand notions of visual literacy from image analysis in contemporary society;
— Exploring photography as an extended communication element in artistic projects (still image and moving image);
— Deepen techniques for recording and editing photographic and cinematographic images;
— Acquire a visual discourse that presents itself as a field of communication experiences related to the image (still image and moving image)

Learning outcomes and competences

— Analyze the image beyond its representation;
— Investigate and validate the image as a contemporary unit of literacy;
— Recognize the importance of the image at an academic, cultural and professional level;
— Understand the importance of visual narratives around contemporary projects;
— Identify and define communication problems that encourage them to interfere in contemporary society;
— Search for visual, photographic and cinematographic solutions, using less obvious methodologies;
— Combine personal interests with scientific areas of an artistic nature;
— Recognize the importance of image on a social, cultural and professional level.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Not applied.

Program

— Know how cameras work (depth of field and shutter speed);
— History of photography;
— Time in the photographic record (accelerating and decelerating);
— Photography and its relationship with contemporaneity;
— Sequences: notions of series and photographic narrative;
— Contaminations between still image and moving image (artistic context);
— Time in the cinematographic record (accelerating and decelerating).

Mandatory literature

Ansel Adams; The Camera. ISBN: 0-8212-2184-1
António Sena; História da imagem fotográfica em Portugal. ISBN: ISBN: 972-0-06265-7
Barbara London; Video/Art: The First Fifty Years, Phaidon Press, 2020. ISBN: 071487759X
David Campany; The Cinematic, The MIT Press, 2007. ISBN: 0262532883
David Parkinson; History of Film (World of Art), Thames & Hudson, 2012. ISBN: 9780500204108
Gerry Badger; The Genius of photography. ISBN: 978-1-84400-363-1
Joel Meyerowitz; Seeing Things: A Kid's Guide to Looking at Photographs, Aperture, 2016. ISBN: 1597113158
Mark Cousins ; Biografia do Filme, Plátano Editora, 2005. ISBN: 9789727703258
Susan Sontag; On photography. ISBN: 978-0-140-05397-5
Terence Marner; A Realização Cinematográfica (Re-Edição), Edições 70, 1980. ISBN: 9789724414133

Complementary Bibliography

Gilles Deleuze; A Imagem-Movimento (re-edição), Documenta, 2016. ISBN: 9789898566973
Giséle Freund; Fotografia e sociedade
João Bénard da Costa; Os Filmes da minha vida. ISBN: 978-972-37-1234-6
Liz Wells; The Photography Reader. ISBN: ISBN: 0-415-30703-1
Philippe Dubois; O acto fotográfico. . ISBN: ISBN: 972-699-280-X
Roland Barthes; A câmara clara. ISBN: 978-972-44-1349-5
Rosalind Krauss; O Fotográfico. ISBN: ISBN: 84-252-1858-6
Vilém Flusser; Ensaio sobre a fotografia.
Walter Benjamin; Sobre arte, técnica, linguagem e política. ISBN: ISBN: 972-708-1770
Wheeler Winston Dixon; A Short History of Film, Rutgers University Pres, 2018. ISBN: 0813595126

Teaching methods and learning activities

Classes will take place in two distinct modules: the first will correspond to a theoretical exposition; the second to a more practical model.

Theoretical presentation: Understand the importance of relationships between images. Presentation, analysis and discussion of photographic projects organized in narrative and thematic series. Creation of a visual repertoire from technological procedures related to the preparation, formatting and production of a visual narrative.

Practical component: knowing how to correctly use all the items in the program after completing two projects presented during the semester. Project 01: Still image and Project 02: Image in motion.

keywords

Humanities > Arts > Visual arts > Film studies
Humanities > Arts > Visual arts > Photography

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	25,00
Trabalho de campo	25,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	15,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	35,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	40,00
Frequência das aulas	30,00
Trabalho de campo	15,00
Trabalho de investigação	15,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

— Attendance;
— Monitoring of projects;
— Participation;
— Work presentation;
— Development of exercises and projects;
— Scientific curiosity;
— Technological domain;
— Use of appropriate technical concepts and language.

Calculation formula of final grade

Project 01 — 20%
Deadline for submission of Project 01 — 5%
Project 02 — 20%
Project completion time 02 — 5%
Project Monitoring — 20%
Attendance, Participation and Presentation — 10%
Scientific Curiosity — 10%
Technological Domain — 10%

Projects that have not been duly followed during the semester will not be evaluated.

Students who do not attend at least 65% of classes will not be evaluated.