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CAEL5044: The Moving Camera
2025 unit information
This production-intensive elective provides students with the skills and knowledge required to conceptualise and execute a range of cinematographic techniques in the effective realisation of a screen-based work. Through an integrated study program combining film screenings, camera workshops and cinematography lectures, students are given an historical, conceptual and technological framework within which to explore sophisticated moving-camera techniques including gimbals, dollies and jibs, and advanced lighting, coverage and shooting skills across diverse formats. Students apply the creative and technical knowledge acquired to the development of their own screen-based practice.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Sydney College of the Arts |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. conceptualise, plan and shoot a 3 minute screen-work involving a moving camera
- LO2. critically analyse and problem solve through the production process
- LO3. use a range of current production techniques to produce creative moving image works
- LO4. critically understand a range of different approaches to the moving camera and engage with related theoretical and cultural debates
- LO5. use appropriate technologies and media to effectively gather information
- LO6. critically evaluate information.
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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