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FILM 401 Special Effects Units: 3.00
This course focuses on special effects for moving-image media, from early optical illusions to film tricks to emerging tools. The course considers the historical and social context of special effects through a critical, intersectional feminist and decolonial lens, and offers hands-on experimentation with historical and contemporary special effects.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 30 Practicum, 30 Group Learning)
Requirements: Prerequisite ANIM 200/3.0 or (registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan).
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Devise personal, experimental strategies for creating moving-image special effects.
- Develop skills in working with the cinematic apparatus and software tools.
- Understand the politics and history of technological development for the moving-image.
- Investigate historical narratives through a critical lens.