The media majors at French public universities are divided into arts/sciences/arts and are three different disciplines.
Today, I will briefly introduce the existence of art media majors in French public universities.
<h1>Overview</h1>
First of all, unlike domestic universities, French public universities do not divide the media majors in the first two years of the undergraduate stage, that is to say, no matter which direction you study, television studies, journalism, choreography, new media, photography, or drama, film and television, script writing, etc., all exist in a profession called Arts du spectacle. By the standards of Chinese universities, the Arts du spectacle major can be understood as a collection of media majors and drama majors.
In the past two years, everyone has studied the same curriculum, and the courses of major public institutions are similar, mainly public basic theory courses, supplemented by introductory practical courses, with the intention of building students' professional knowledge system and industry literacy.
The third year of undergraduate L3 is a very critical year, this year began to divide the major, the vast majority of public colleges will be Arts du spectacle this comprehensive major divided into two directions, one is the film and audiovisuelle based on film knowledge (cinématographique et audiovisuelle), the other is the drama-based drama major (théatre spectacle vivant ), A few universities will also divide a third professional direction according to their own characteristics, such as photography, dance, etc.
Generally speaking, the direction of film and audiovisual communication is the major with the highest degree of overlap with major media majors in China, and it is also regarded as a new starting point for most media students studying in France.
(Drama is not classified as a media category in China, so this article will not introduce the drama course further.)
<h1>course</h1>
Undergraduate level
There are 10-14 courses per semester
There is nothing to say in the first or second years of undergraduate, mainly based on film and television analysis and basic theory, the courses during this period have a strong literary nature, and the classroom content can be well displayed through notes, and there is no too esoteric content to understand.
In the third year, the public courses will continue to be the mainstay, the content will be advanced from basic theory to professional theory, and the public courses of major colleges and universities will still not be much different, focusing on film theory and aesthetics, French classic films, world contemporary films, media sociology, media economics, and audiovisual works analysis.
The name of the course is not much different from some majors in China, such as choreography and television studies, but according to the fine tradition of the French people taking the college entrance examination for philosophy, the teacher will instill a large number of humanism and philosophical theories in the students, and the course content of this year has become relatively complicated.
For example, in a film theory class at a public university, in a special lecture on the French film theorist Bazin, the teacher happily talked about the French philosophical theory of the same period that had nothing to do with the course.
The teacher of the classic film class has completed a feat of not talking about movies, but only about philosophical theory, and still remembers the teacher's enigmatic opening words: "Today let's talk about Jean Renoir's "Boudu Fell into the Water", which is a film full of naturalistic feelings, the origin of naturalism and France..." Then talked about naturalism until the end of the class...
But don't worry about not understanding it, because the French classmates in this class are usually Hollande memes. Moreover, public universities generally have the existence of online courses, that is, after class, teachers upload PPT to the network, and students can log on to the campus network to view and fill in the gaps in important content.
Philosophical thinking is a major feature of the French classroom, combining ancient and modern, and keeping pace with the times.
An economics teacher at the CNC (French National Film Centre) her courses ranged from the box office situation in 1921 to the overseas box office of French films last month.
The film and television analysis teacher explained the contemporary film picture and the medieval oil painting in the same frame every time.
Therefore, a large number of theory classes in public universities, although not practical, are also full of fun.
The third year of undergraduate courses will include two or three elective practical courses, generally the following courses to choose from:
This includes lessons to complete experimental short films (such as our school requires silent short films, and some schools require long-shot short films) and short feature films.
There are documentary courses that complete short documentary shooting, planning classes that help the cinema next door to do small film festivals, photography classes with unlimited equipment in school, etc. Although the practical courses at the undergraduate level account for a small proportion of credits or courses, the quality of each practical course is still very conscientious.
(For example, the theater owner of the planning class comes to tell the industry secrets, and a photographer who does not want to go to work in the photography class talks about creativity)
Graduate level
Coming to the graduate level, the first year of M1, although the professional names of major institutions are not the same, the direction is similar. In general, M1 follows the professional division of L3 in the last year of undergraduate, retaining the two major majors of film and television and drama, but providing different research directions within the major. Professional names are no longer used with unclear meanings of arts du specta-cle instead of words like film, documentary, etc. with clearly pointed meanings as professional names, and the professional direction is clear at a glance.
The research directions of the M1 film and television major are usually film audiovisual research, documentary research, contemporary film and television research, film and television photography, etc. Some universities offer their own specialties at the postgraduate level such as journalists (Paris VII), anthropological documentaries (Paris X University), independent film studies (Lyon II University), etc.
The graduate level is still dominated by theory courses, but there will be a relative increase in the number of seminars, and the main tasks of the year are internships and the completion of personal research and thesis reports.
The second year of graduate school, M2, will not expand much professionally compared to the first year, and a few schools will make a more refined professional division, but most schools continue to follow the professional setting of M1.
I hope that this short article will bring some help to media students who are confused about their profession