International College

Artists today seek the means of expression using high technology, and engineers get inspiration for new technologies from art. Historically, scientific principles have been applied to art, starting from Western painting. The creative fusion of the elements in science and art accelerated after the invention of photography in the late 19th century. Influenced by postmodernism in the early 20th century, photographic and contemporary art emphasizes subjectivity and uses various technologies and materials as its media of expression. Media art, which has recently become a global trend, is also a new art movement formed by combining scientific technology and art. This class studies the historical development of media art and science, focusing on the case studies on recent media artworks.

Write a thesis and give a presentation under the guidance of the thesis advisor.

The course aims to establish professional ethics as a researcher, learning the knowledge base and attitude necessary to conduct valued research, including thesis writing, research subject protection, research deliberation, research data management, and the social responsibility of researchers. - Eligibility to take the course 1. Graduate students of Dongseo University who plan to submit master’s thesis and thesis for an academic journal. 2. All researchers from Dongseo University who seek research ethics education.

Artists today increasingly look for a means of expression in high technology. On the other hand, engineers search for inspirations for new technologies in art. The media artists’ works create a new aesthetic through this combination of technology and art. This class provides students a better understanding of various artworks from digital painting, media installation, web art to virtual reality and game aesthetics, following the historical process in which digital media has become an art medium. The class also systematically organizes necessary concepts and principles to analyze and understand various artworks.

This course introduces students to explore ways to attract the viewers or maintain immersion in relation to various creative approaches to choose from when designing a story. In addition, the students will learn and examine the ways and meanings that make viewers understand better and deliver the key point effectively, discovering various immersive elements that match the story structure and the visual expression of the screen, information, and emotional symbolism on the narrative.

This course is designed to derive a system for story expressions, such as maintaining viewers’ interest when storytelling-based images are presented, the nature of subjective visual perception, and the relationship between response and pattern. The course expands on the direction and method of storytelling and production, including accurate location relationships with characters and backgrounds and the composition of the screen when directing a film. Students will practice the connectivity of scenes, acting, filming, background composition, and lighting arrangement to maximize the effects such as continuity and visual expression methods.

For storytelling, musical composition acts as an essential tool for conveying the director's intention and message. In this course, students will learn and research the analysis of background music, discovering musical points related to storytelling and scenes, motivation, and how to set the direction of the concept. In addition, various musical application methods required for the emotional approaches to viewers are utilized through practice and projects, such as analysis of musical transformation processes and case studies.

This course pursues the improvement of technical editing skills necessary for animation and video and to improve the quality of storytelling results by understanding psychological and humanity based approaches to editing. Students will practice and research the applied theories, focusing on analyzing scenes and sequences. The importance of editing in narrative delivery is studied and practiced using films and videos of various genres. The class is designed to emphasize the effect of editing on storytelling using various editing methodologies.

In this course, theoretical study and practice are combined through aesthetic approaches such as formative languages and textures necessary for animation and images. The students will study 3D figures in detail, considering the characters, backgrounds, objects, and animation setups and textures appearing in storytelling, including various modeling production methods, theories, and analysis to maximize visual effects. In particular, the design production method will help support the formative characters and aesthetic meaning suitable for the meaning of the subject.

In this course, theoretical study and practice are combined through aesthetic approaches such as formative languages and textures necessary for animation and images. The students will study 3D figures in detail, considering the characters, backgrounds, objects, and animation setups and textures appearing in storytelling, including various modeling production methods, theories, and analysis to maximize visual effects. In particular, the design production method will help support the formative characters and aesthetic meaning suitable for the meaning of the subject.

Learn the steps and constructions of previs required for film, animation and VFX production. In this course, students practice and modify previs camera settings and movements to familiarize themselves with the flow of the pipeline.

The course focuses on the overall contents related to inorganic modeling and texture processing that are vitally important in animation and image development. In addition, the students will learn the composition method of form and material, the style pursued by the video, and various techniques necessary for the formation of the structure and construction.

This course researches the textures and shading-related visual expression techniques of the model generated in animation and video and studies technical construction methods. In addition, various shading and texture techniques are developed through a correlation study on lighting and rendering, which significantly influences scenes.

This course analyzes the characteristics of animations produced in various ways such as 2D, 3D, stop motion, hybrid, and VR animation and studies the production methods and styles of animations recently created to understand the advanced animation technologies and stories required in the future video content development.

This course is based around the analysis of recent cases of character animation production using CG technology and the techniques and applications of character animation used in various industries such as broadcasting, animation, movies, and games.

This course examines the history of film’s technical, aesthetic and social development within an international context, paricularly in relation to wider cultural and political movements and with an emphasis on narrative feature-length motion pictures.

Mise-en-Scène is the most basic and key element in storytelling. The Mise-en-Scène is composed on the screen through various movie languages. It is used to convey the director's intention and message to the audience. This course will provide students learning the movie language, comparing and experiencing the process of delivering messages from characters and directors to the audience through the practice of screen composition, and studying how to use storytelling efficiently and proactively.

In this course, aesthetic concepts related to cinematography and lighting are covered and developed. Also, specific visualization methods are explored.

This course analyzes social and cultural phenomena that were resulted from the digitalization of video and interprets them artistically and humanities and studies the production and consumption of video-based media and content, audience and power, reproduction, and cultural consumption. To select each research subject of digital images and proceed with research on them, students will select the text to understand the theoretical foundation and cultural phenomenon. Furthermore, they will set up a methodology that can be applied to their research and work on personal research.

This course studies the recent issues in visual effects in computer graphics. The latest technologies and application cases are analyzed, focusing on the matters being studied in the film, animation, and game industries. Methods that can be applied to actual works are designed and practiced.

This course will help students understand the latest trends and techniques in the field of Visual Effects (VFX) and apply and produce them by work. Students will study the basics related to effect production and the effects production techniques using dynamics and will produce their works.

This course will cover various visual image usage methods and expression techniques implied by scenarios when constructing story-based images. In particular, scenes of images related to digital lighting and image compositing techniques are analyzed, and effective visual image telling techniques are developed.

Understand the role and function of sound in the video and analyze and study the poetic and auditory effects of the works. Based on this, creative sound is created by reinterpreting the work.

This course analyzes the overall digital contents industry (game, animation, digital film) trends and technical and industrial issues. It examines how possibilities have been raised, especially in technology marketing. In addition, it researches the institutional mechanisms of how media businesses are organized and operated and studies the profit sharing according to the distribution from planning investment to production.

Learn about the latest trends and technologies in multimedia and games. The course develops adaptability in the rapidly changing information age by grasping the latest trends in the industry and predicting the future. It also helps devise, implement, and propose new technologies necessary for this.

As a subject to strengthen in-depth research and production practice in specialized fields, it is conducted by applying for learning guidance from outside personnel and experts.

Design thinking is a project that brings creative problem-solving skills to imagine and practice ideas, cultivating the skills necessary for students living in the fast-changing modern society at the beginning of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Problem-based learning methods, bringing real-life problems to improve themselves through project classes, interest students and encourage them to learn in six stages: 'understanding-sympathy-defining problems-creating ideas-prototype-sharing.'