Audiovisual languages

Degree course: 
Corso di First cycle degree in Communication Sciences
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2017/2018
Year: 
3
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2019/2020
Course type: 
Compulsory subjects, characteristic of the class
Credits: 
6
Period: 
First Semester
Standard lectures hours: 
48
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (48 hours)
Requirements: 

Knowledge of the Italian history and literature of the XX century. Further insights will be provided during the lessons and during the preparation phase of the exam.

Final Examination: 
Orale
Assessment: 
Voto Finale

The course aims to provide the cognitive tools to learn the notions that are necessary to understand both the organization of an audiovisual event and the their fruition in semiotic, social and cultural terms.
At the end of the course the student is expected to acquire the following skills:
- the ability to place an audiovisual event within the socio-cultural system
- the ability to evaluate the audiovisual event
- the ability to include the audiovisual event in the journalist-information disclosure system.

The course is developed through a series of historical, critical and semiotic reflections, with precise textual references, stimulating students to refine their ability to analyse the audiovisual phenomenon all around them. With particular reference to cinema, radio, TV and digital media.
Among the topics covered:
-history of comparative audiovisual languages
-history of cinema, radio and TV
-television and programme techniques and genres
-the morphology of cinema and television
-the DNA of audiovisual products
-crossmediality
-narratology and narrative design
-Semiology of the image and of the imaginary

Professors

LUCIANI UMBERTO