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FacultyFine Arts
SchoolFilm
Qualification AwardedΠΤΥΧΙΟ ΚΙΝΗΜΑΤΟΓΡΑΦΟΥ (PTYCHIO KINIMATOGRAFOU) (DEGREE IN FILM )
Programme of StudyUPS of School of Film Studies (2009-2013)
Cycle / Level1st / Undergraduate
Academic Year2016 - 2017
StatusActive
Websitewww.film.auth.gr
Contact emailinfo@film.auth.gr
ECTS / WorkloadOne ECTS unit corresponds to 30 hours of workload.
ΠΤΥΧΙΟ ΚΙΝΗΜΑΤΟΓΡΑΦΟΥ (PTYCHIO KINIMATOGRAFOU) (DEGREE IN FILM )
Undergraduate
Upper secondary degree (6 years of studies). National level examination.
To graduate from the School of Film , students have to successfully attend courses (compulsory and elective) for 300 ECTS. It is a five year course, structured as follows: During the first four years, each year has 60 ECTS and each semester 30 ECTS. During the fifth year of their studies, students complete their final year project (40 ECTS) and their dissertation (20 ECTS).
The university degree offered by the School of Film is an entity based on a full circle of core courses of film theory and history as well as film-making, which also includes didactics of film and a foreign language. Following that circle of core courses, each student elects the courses that he/she attends and the final-year project, in order to specialize in one of the following fields: a) screenwriting, b)film directing, c) production management, d) sound and music of cinema, e) set and costume design, f) cinematography, g) editing, h) theory and history of film.
The School of Film aims to cultivate the art of film-making and to research and study film as an art-form. Graduates have a wide, theoretical and practical, knowledge of film as a medium as well as expert knowledge in the field of their choice.
All the graduates of the School of Film have acquired a basic level of knowledge and skills for every artistic field (Screenwriting, Directing, Cinematography, Editing, Sound and Music, Set and Costume Design, Production) as well as basic theoretical knowledge and skills in the field of Film Theory and Film History.
In addition, all graduates acquire pedagogical skills for teaching film: the ability to formulate and apply educational programs for students at the Elementary or High School level (teaching cinema, coordinating school projects).
Moreover, depending on the selected courses and their final year project, the students are given the opportunity to reach a professional level the skills mentioned below:
Skills related to the art of screenwriting: the conception and writing of a film script.
Skills related to the art of directing: the conception and execution of a filmmaking plan in collaboration with a crew.
Skills related to cinematography: the conception and realization of an artistic project that determines the lighting and the framing of a film.
Skills related to editing: the conception and realization of an artistic project on the editing of a film.
Skills related to the artistic work in the field of set and costume design: the conception and realization of an artistic project in relation to the film set and the costumes of a film.
Skills related to the artistic work in the field of film sound and music: the conception and realization of an artistic project in relation to the soundtrack of a film.
Skills related to the work in the field of production: the selection, development, production and distribution of audiovisual works.
Skills related to Film theory and Film history: theoretical and historical expertise on the cinematic medium, the ability to do original academic research, the development of critical and synthetic thinking.
Non Applicable.
The qualification is a terminal award and allows access to postgraduate studies.
A scale of 1 to 10 applies to the marks of each subject in the Hellenic Higher Education:
Minimum passing grade: 5
Άριστα (Arista) Excellent: 8.50-10.00
Λίαν Καλώς (Lian Kalos) Very Good : 6.50- 8.49
Καλώς (Kalos) Good : 5.00-6.49
Ανεπιτυχώς (Anepitychos) Fail: 0.00-4.99
10 SEMESTERS, 300 ECTS.
A full academic year is equivalent to 60 ECTS units and each semester to 30 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) (1ECTS=25-30 student work load hours). Compliance with the ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System) regulations started in 2007, when the Greek Legislation was harmonized with the relevant European one (Ministerial Decision no Φ.5/89656/Β3, art. 1-3, Hellenic Goverment Gazette no 1466/2007/B). Each course is credited with a number of ECTS (>=2) according to the studentworkload ( contact hours, laboratory work, examination e.t.c.) and accumulation of credits (ECTS) is accomplished after successful completion of the course.
Full-time.
Associate Professor Apostolos Karakasis