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This course examines how cinema creates meaning through formal elements such as narrative, mise-en-scene, cinematography, sound and editing. It introduces students to key concepts and terms in Film Studies. It develops their textual analysis skills a...

This course involves a critical exploration of several important stages in the history of cinema. These periods will be examined within a range of artistic, cultural, historical, material and/or theoretical contexts.

This course focuses on the cinema and visual culture of Aotearoa New Zealand from different cultural, aesthetic, historical, industrial and economic perspectives.

This course is a study of a film culture or linked film cultures that are fostered through shared production, distribution and exhibition practices and that emerge from particular cultural or subcultural contexts. It explores the relationship of film...

This course investigates the documentary mode in a range of historical contexts from its early history and its relationship with the avant-garde to the current prevalence of documentary in multiple forms and contexts.

This course will examine one or more film genres from an aesthetic, historical, cultural, and/or economic perspective.

This course provides students with the opportunity to develop practical skills in production including directing, cinematography, editing and sound. It involves both individual and collaborative production exercises as well as script development assi...

This is a limited entry production-based course designed to explore key aspects in visual storytelling across multiple media. It examines basic techniques related to narrative constructions through video, sound and images, making use of digital techn...

This course will focus on significant contemporary debates and theoretical issues in Film Studies. Topics will vary.

This course examines how cinema represents issues such gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality and/or class in a critical manner.

This course examines the relationships between cinema and other media in a variety of contexts. Topics may include analogue and/or digital technologies, animation, 3D, and/or multiple platforms. FILM 305 provides students with opportunities to develo...

This course involves a practical study of the creative and technical aspects of film production. Students will make a short dramatic film in small groups. This will develop their skills at scripting, photography, mise-en-scene, performance, editing, ...

A critical and practical study of documentary filmmaking. Documentary Film Production aims to provide students with a broad understanding of the forms and styles of documentary. The course will focus on stylistic and structural aspects of the documen...

This course will examine one or more contemporary and/or historical theoretical perspectives on cinema. It may focus on a specific thinker, a particular theoretical trend, and/or significant issues such as screen aesthetics, the nature of the medium,...

This course will situate cinema in terms of its social and cultural contexts at an advanced level. The course may explore issues such as its representational strategies, relationship to specific cultural practices, and/or its links to broader social ...

This is a practical course in which students perform some of the key roles involved in the production of dramatic works on video. The emphasis of the course is on the shaping and refinement of creative ideas and their conversion into compelling works...

This course develops advanced production management skills, preproduction planning, collaborative production skills, creative leadership and post-production techniques. Students will collaborate on the production of several short film projects that a...

This course gives students the opportunity to pursue an individual research project usually in the form of an extended essay, up to 10,000 words, with regular guidance and support from a supervisor. Practical and creative work may be included as part...

FILM/DSDN/NZSM/THEA 590 is a creative research project, which is the capstone of the MFA (Creative Practice) degree. The project topic and approach is developed by the student under the guidance of an academic staff member in the relevant area.

MA thesis in Film.

PhD course.

This hands-on course will familiarise students with the main stylistic features shared by music of the late-Romantic period and many contemporary Hollywood film scores. The course draws on key triadic post-tonal theories (especially Neo-Riemannian th...