FILM 310 Archival Remediation and Restoration of Time-based Media Units: 3.00
This advanced-level course trains students and examines cutting-edge restoration processes in time-based media, particularly as it pertains to film and video. Using scanning and software technologies within the Vulnerable Media Lab, students will learn to restore and package archival media for archival, theatrical, and broadcast standards.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 30 Practicum, 30 Group Learning)
Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM Major, FILM Joint Honours, MAPP, or COFI Plan and FILM 250.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identifying, handling, and working with historical photochemical and magnetic media.
- Learning scanning and capture processes for photochemical and magnetic media.
- Packaging and delivering media in archival, theatrical, and broadcast standards.
- Remediating and restoring media digitally.
- Understanding the ethics and responsibility in digital remediation and restoration.
- Working with time-based digital media: usages, stability, and best practices.