Art Courses

【2021】

Let us zoom in and review the wonderful moments of Art Courses in 2021.

【2022】

2022 will be the year to combine modernity with tradition. There are not only familiar courses like Traditional Chinese Opera Series and Creative Stop-motion Animation but also new courses about documentary filmmaking , improvisational drama, and illustration art, which are deemed to be splendid.

In the first course of the new year, 

let us admire the great world through director Hsia’s videos.

The 11th Art Course

The 11th Art Course invites director Grace Hsia to offer the course of Capture the Beauty of Reality with Documentary Filmmaking , teaching students to tell stories via video art.

01【Course Information】

Course Theme

Capture the Beauty of Reality with Documentary Filmmaking

Speaker

Grace Hsia

Location

TA101 + outdoor + TB201

Course Material

A mirrorless or DSLR camera, a set of lenses (50mm 24-70mm 70-200mm), an on-camera microphone, a pair of wireless microphones, small fill lights, a camera bag, and a tripod.

The equipment above is for the course and can be purchased individually or in groups (3-4 people). The Art Course programme also has equipment available and can be borrowed on request.

Language

Chinese

Capacity

50

Notes

If you have signed up successfully, you are requested to participate in this course on time. If you are absent, you may be disqualified from participating in subsequent University Arts Centre courses. Please arrange your time reasonably and be present on time.

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Certificate of Completion

Due to the continuity of the course and the advanced content, students who have successfully registered for the course need to complete seven out of the eight sessions of the course, after which they can obtain a Certificate of Completion.

02【Course Schedule】

03【Course Objectives】

The course bears the theme of “Capture the Beauty of Reality with Documentary Filmmaking ”. It uses documentary to guide students to think about themselves and the world, discover the beauty surrounding them with broadened views, and cultivate their comprehensive aesthetic ability, life perception, and ability of expression. The course covers documentary theory, thinking development, and filming practice. Students will learn to tell stories via video art and produce a short documentary on their interested topic later in the course, in which they will feel the charm of documentary. The course will inspire students to think about the phenomenon in the society with new views and seize the opportunities to produce more insightful and meaningful content.

04【Speaker】

Grace Hsia

Grace Hsia, a director and playwright, graduated from Beijing Film Academy and Hunan University, majored in film production and visual communication respectively. She started her career in documentary from 2014 with Changsha Trilogy, and worked as a documentary director in Enlight Pictures, producing several documentaries for cinemas. Her short films, Still Home, Broken Flowers, and Silent Storm, won awards in film festivals at home and abroad, including Busan International Film Festival, Tampere Film Festival, Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, LA Shorts International Film Festival, and Flickerfest. Her works focus on human living and emotions in the development of the times. Her films and narration are delicate and fresh, with strength in telling stories about social issues, cross-culture, growth of female and youth.

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UAC Art Courses

University Arts Centre will offer courses in a variety of art forms, either credit bearing or non-credit bearing. Artists will be invited to design instructional plans and visiting lecturers and professors will be invited to give lectures. This will reinforce the aim of the Centre, which is to enrich the culture and art atmosphere of the University with artistic activities.