Television, Cinema and New Media

Television, Cinema and New Media

The curriculum of the Master's Degree Course in Television, Cinema and New Media, with a unique formula on the national scene, combines theoretical and practical preparation along the entire chain of audiovisual design and production for traditional media (cinema, television) and new media (web, video games, mobile devices), stimulating students to develop the creative, technical and managerial skills necessary to enter the international markets of reference.

The first common year teaches the basic techniques of direction, sound recording, digital editing and direction of photography; it provides the tools for an articulated reflection on the visual sphere, on the visual/sound relationship and on the collective images of the digital era.

The second year is divided into 3 specialisations:

1. Cinema and new technologies: deepens the techniques of film direction and theoretical and critical reflection on cinema, introduces the techniques of digital cinema and animation, the strategic elements of the economy of cinema, its dissemination and preservation.
2. Television and Cross-media: deepens the techniques of television direction and theoretical and critical reflection on television and cross-media, introduces the techniques of streaming, the tools for the design and implementation of serial products, the strategic elements of television marketing.
3. New media and digital art: prepares for the conception and development of interactive products for the net, for video games and for mobile devices, deepens the reflection on social imaginary and on the languages of digital art, analyzes the strategic elements of the economy and law of E-World.

Access to the degree course is subject to the possession of a three-year degree (or equivalent foreign qualification) in one of the degree classes indicated in the Admission Regulations.

Alternatively, for students with a Bachelor's degree in a degree class other than those indicated, for access to the Bachelor's Degree Course the Admission Regulations define a list of scientific-disciplinary fields in which it will be necessary to have acquired a certain number of credits.

For more information about admission requirements, please visit the university website.

1st Year - Common Courses

• Director's workshop
• Digital assembly laboratory
• Laboratory for lighting technology and filming
• Media Sound Landscapes
  • Music and image
  • Direct sound laboratory
• Visual studies
  • Theory, history and technique of photography
  • Laboratory of video art and audiovisual installations
• Imaginaries of the digital age

2nd Year Address Cinema and new technologies

• Advanced film direction laboratory
• Digital Cinema
  • Visual and digital effects
  • An animation workshop
• Film Studies
  • Filmology
  • Critical writing workshop for cinema and entertainment
• Expanded cinema and business elements
  • Economy of cinema: strategies and tools
  • Archives, exhibitions and museums of cinema

2nd Year - Television and Cross Media

• Advanced television directing workshop
• Cross-media Seriousness
  • Format and TV series
  • Web series design and production laboratory
• Web TV
  • TV, social media and web
  • Laboratory streaming
• TV and cross-media business

2nd Year - New Media, Music and Digital Tales

• Digital accounts
  • Videogames: technology and art
  • Interaction Design Laboratory
• Music, video and digital art
  • Director's workshop for short formats
  • Expanded video art workshop: spaces, scenarios, sounds
• Audiovisual content for social media
  • Creational communication strategies
  • Music online: video and live
• Copyright and audiovisual content performance

Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.

Through a mix of theoretical-critical teaching (frontal teaching) and practical-laboratory teaching (exercises), the degree course offers the essential tools for the acquisition of highly specialized technical skills, critical and strategic skills necessary to evaluate products and projects and to actively orient themselves within the national and international trends of the markets of reference.

For more information about tuition fees, please visit the university website.

From the academic year 2019-2020 students will be able to attend the second year at the New York Film Academy (based in Los Angeles), obtaining a double degree valid both in Italy and in the USA (DUAL DEGREE).

Credits: 120

Programme objectives

The degree course aims to provide students with a solid theoretical and practical preparation in the conception, production, implementation and analysis of communication projects and audiovisual products for television, film and new media (social networks, video games, digital video art).

Graduates will have the skills and knowledge to pursue the following careers, among many other professions:

• director
• digital editor
• cinematographer
• screenwriter
• film, TV and/or web producer
• video game designer
• expert in 3D visualization and digital effects
• scriptwriter for TV formats and series
• author of hypertext fiction
• transmedia storyteller
• creative content producer for the web
• social and mobile media expert
• film festival organizer
• film and/or television critic