Location
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Location |
#61318, Suseon Hall |
Address
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Address |
25-2, Sungkyunkwan-Ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Korea |
Telephone
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Telephone |
82-2-760-0661 |
The Department of Film, TV & Multimedia was established with an aim to foster media professionals who can play a pivotal role in creating content for new media in the 21st century. To this end, the department is equipped with curriculum required for the emerging digital-based entertainment industry, faculty of ample experiences, and offers various equipment and facilities with which students can study, such as studios, a sound editing suite and media library.
Film, Television and Multimedia Studies seeks to create professionals who will shape and define the digital art in the age of converging media, information and entertainment. To meet the demands of this fast changing sector, media art specialists need to be armed with a complete understanding of new media and video content as well as the technical facility to actively utilize the understating for practical ends. It follows that this area of study spurs the development of such knowledge and skill, making possibility of a creative approach to photography, broadcasting, film, video, electronic games, and the internet.
Every class is composed of thirty-five students selected in the regular admission period by the college, through the Scholastic Aptitude Test (CSAT) and by looking at Student Transcripts, with about five students selected by special admissions through portfolio screening and an in-depth interview. Currently, the total number of students in the department is 160. Every year, about 40 students graduate from the department and find employment in various areas such as filmmaking companies, broadcasting stations, advertisement agencies, animation, interactive media broadcasting stations, game companies and multimedia-related companies.
Department in Detail 
(1) Areas of Study
Department of Film, Television and Multimedia challenges the limits of visual expression through combining new technologies and art, while crossing the borders of various disciplines.
The program generally covers areas realted to; film, motion-graphics, media theories, animation, game, and media-art. Aforementioned courses are approached by both practical and theoretical avenues.
Students on this course will be educated with theoretical understanding about overall media. The general courses provide basic concepts about designing, creating, and performing film, tv, and multimedia, with practical coursework allowing students to experience and develop skills that suit them the most. As media can be defined by enormous fields of study, every student is asked to find a suitable field among the prepared programs.
Furthermore, as recent society is interested in the issue of ‘convergence’, it is important for students to understand and follow the current flow of the masses. To do that, courses have been prepared including principles of convergence applied to variety of fields in film, tv, and multimedia. Students are required to choose all courses to enhance their knowledge about the newest developments in the industry and to produce innovative content.
(2) Graduate Programs
The program places its focus on curricular coordination and query intended to open new horizons of thinking for understanding digital media culture in a broad-based perspective, research rapidly-changing cultural phenomena, and to develop capabilities to cope with such problems. The department intends to foster leaders of media creation equipped with broad thinking and resources through the combined education of humanities and social sciences, and engineering studies.
Therefore, with the aim to creative digital content, the program equips students with creative capabilities to employ a new approach to understanding conventional media such as; photography, film, broadcasting, animation, game and the internet. Students are also encouraged to adopt required information, and develop media content by themselves and find analytical approaches to challenges.
(3) Facilities
The deparment provides studios and workstations for students who want to film, shoot, or edit. Equipment including Mac computers, DSLR cameras, camera stands, and other supporting materials are prepared for students. Further academic resources can be requested through the website or the department. Students are also given a private space where they can share their thoughts on current work and classes.
Why choose us?
Reputation
In 2002, the Ministry of Information and Communication chose SKKU's Film, TV, and Multimedia department as the best 'IT Industry Supporting Course'. In 2003, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism chose the department as the best 'Culture Contents Supporting Course', especially on ‘digital technology films focused on digital animation.’ Since then, the course was also chosen to be an international course of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, exchanging numerous professional students around the country.
"FRIED SCREEN"
For 12 years, the Department opens Film festival called "Fried Screen". This festival is run by students' own efforts from planning the event to creating contents. Senior group prepare their own graduation works and show their works in the one of the biggest theatres in Korea, "CGV". Not only showing seniors' graduation films, the event opens "Teen Screen"
For 12 years, all the members of Department of Film, TV & Multimedia prepare for “FRIEDSCREEN” from planning to creating contents. So this event is built on students’ extraordinary creativity . “FRIEDSCREEN” also provides students with stages where they show up their fried films with pride. The youth’s passion has created trendy pop arts.
It aims to form a media-cultural hub connecting young artists and SKKU students. “FRIEDSCREEN”, the Youth Film Festival, tries various genres and embraces a paradigm shift, leading new media generations. The goal of this event is to expand its clout into the world.
Also, Department of Film, TV & Multimedia encourages high-school students to participate in “Teen Screen.” Every year, Department of Film, TV & Multimedia holds a film contest and an award ceremony for scenarios and films. The purpose of the award ceremony is to raise teenagers new film artists, helping them develop their creativity. “Teen Screen” also refreshes undergraduates and the public as well as provides teenagers with new opportunities, creating synergy effects.
See more details here; http://friedscreen.com/wp/
