Oxford Continuees

We're excited that you are considering majoring in Film & Media when you come to the Atlanta campus. We've compiled some helpful information especially for Oxford students to help you make the most of your time at Oxford and navigate your final four semesters.

FILM 101: Introduction to Film

An introductory-level course designed to familiarize students with the fundamental concepts and tools of film and media analysis. Study focuses on stylistic elements of film, as well as film/media narrative and narration. Students will learn how to identify stylistic elements and patterns as well as how a film uses film style and narration to communicate narrative information and elicit emotions.

FILM 102: Introduction to Television and Digital Media

This course introduces you to the analysis of television and digital media. Readings and assignments ask you to identify and evaluate the aesthetic principles, narrative strategies, and cultural significances of these media forms. Although not a history course, it explores some technological developments that shift how media are produced, distributed, consumed, and monetized from the origins of television in the early 20th century to the social media, streaming video, and video games of today.

FILM 107: Introduction to Media Production

This course introduces students to the discipline of filmmaking by focusing on basic elements of the filmic language through a series of hands-on individual and collaborative assignments. We will learn how to use cameras, sound equipment, and video editing software, as well as explore creative and technical problem-solving in film production. This is an introductory course, open to anyone who is curious about film, with no previous filmmaking experience necessary.

FILM 209: Experimental FIlmmaking

This course prioritizes the exploration of form, meaning, and the medium itself over traditional storytelling, and makes use of a wide range of techniques and styles, including manipulation of the film stock itself, ripping, remix, collage, and non-linear editing techniques.

This is a practice-based course, where students are actively making their own films and experimenting with form. With weekly screenings of experimental films, readings, reflections, as well as in-class discussions, lectures, and critiques of student work, this course is an introduction to the art and technique of experimental filmmaking. This course is only offered at Oxford College.

FILM 210: Animation

This course is an introduction to the art and techniques of animation with the focus on experimental animation and experimentation as an approach to artistic self-reliance, and as a path to courage and wonder in developing a unique visual language. Students will explore the basics of direct-on-film animation, cell animation, green screen, flip books, and gifs, culminating in a final stop-motion animation group project. No prior experience in filmmaking, art, or animation is required, but you should be prepared to work independently and collaboratively, and to put in extra time outside of class to complete your projects. This course is only offered at Oxford College.

FILM 204: Documentary Film and Media History

Designed as a historical survey of documentary/non-fiction film, this course focuses on some of the major developments in documentary practice from the Anglo-American tradition as well as films from the Soviet Union, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain. Students will consider several theoretical problems, including the idea of objectivity in documentary, the ethics of documentary, and the mixing of fiction and non-fiction modes in certain films.

FILM 225: Foundations in Media Psychology

This course seeks to answer the question of why Media Psychology is critical.  The following are the three vital philosophical tenants that underscore the importance of the examination of this question: (a) it buttresses positive applications of mediated technology to understand the world better, (b) it connects environmental, and cultural constructs to anchor meaning consumers' cognitive capacities, meaning-making narrative, and personal self-efficacy impact how media is consumed, and (c) it psychologically grounds the consumer in the social world in terms of the lived experience one gains through media. This foundations course provides a solid framework for students to understand the interdisciplinary elements of how media and psychology operate with one another.

FILM 278: Writing the Short Film

An introduction to the theory and craft of dramatic screenwriting of the short film. Explores how a short script is developed from concept to final written form. Class includes lectures, film viewing, and exercises but is primarily a workshop where new writing receives weekly table reads and feedback.