Expanding the Menu: Re-Imagining Film School for an Evolving Landscape
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description: This research will examine two rapidly evolving industries: motion picture and tertiary education, and will explore methods for broadening specialist film skills training to include the development of capabilities that address the realities of today’s rapidly changing digital landscape. The moving image industry today is in a period of transformation and growth in both its technology and its scope. With seeds sown by the breakup of the studio system in the late 1940’s, and gathering momentum with the advent of the digital revolution over the past two decades, the business of making movies, the avenues for distributing movies, the means of watching movies - even the definition of what a movie is – have been undergoing fundamental change. There are now more ways than ever before to create, consume, and interact with moving image content. The paradigm-shifting cultural and technological transformations of recent years have given rise to wholly new models of creation, circulation, usage and spreadability of moving image storytelling. Emerging tools and methods are challenging traditional notions of story and expanding story horizons. These shifts also see redefinitions of some of the old job roles involved in creating moving image content, which, in turn, necessitates a relook into how to teach students who will soon be seeking employment in the new marketplace. Higher Education is also experiencing deep and rapid transformation internationally. The ubiquity of information available online, serious economic challenges and competition from a variety of new education models are among the forces at work which call on legacy educational institutions to relook at their mission and their delivery philosophy. Understanding the nature of teaching and learning has been developing as well, bringing new approaches to pedagogy. However, much of moving image education still has one foot in the past. Many institutions are still primarily teaching conventional approaches to film produ…
abstract: This research will examine two rapidly evolving industries: motion picture and tertiary education, and will explore methods for broadening specialist film skills training to include the development of capabilities that address the realities of today’s rapidly changing digital landscape. The moving image industry today is in a period of transformation and growth in both its technology and its scope. With seeds sown by the breakup of the studio system in the late 1940’s, and gathering momentum with the advent of the digital revolution over the past two decades, the business of making movies, the avenues for distributing movies, the means of watching movies - even the definition of what a movie is – have been undergoing fundamental change. There are now more ways than ever before to create, consume, and interact with moving image content. The paradigm-shifting cultural and technological transformations of recent years have given rise to wholly new models of creation, circulation, usage and spreadability of moving image storytelling. Emerging tools and methods are challenging traditional notions of story and expanding story horizons. These shifts also see redefinitions of some of the old job roles involved in creating moving image content, which, in turn, necessitates a relook into how to teach students who will soon be seeking employment in the new marketplace. Higher Education is also experiencing deep and rapid transformation internationally. The ubiquity of information available online, serious economic challenges and competition from a variety of new education models are among the forces at work which call on legacy educational institutions to relook at their mission and their delivery philosophy. Understanding the nature of teaching and learning has been developing as well, bringing new approaches to pedagogy. However, much of moving image education still has one foot in the past. Many institutions are still primarily teaching conventional approaches to film produ…
author: Wagner, Daniel Lincoln
keywords: moving image, film school, new technologies, higher education, moving image education, film, film education, emerging technologies, curriculum, programme
date published: 2016
date modified: 2026-07-27T18:46:23Z
provider: AUT University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: AUT University