Film Major - Department of design

About Film Major

Film was born at the end of 19th century, and it gained public recognition in no time. And it rushed all down the path to become the gigantic industry of today. At the same time, there arose a movement to see film as a new art. Both overlapping with each other, formed the system of film. By the coming in of TV and video technology, the concept of "film" so far had to be widely broadened into a new concept so called "Audio-Visual Contents". One of these trends appeared through a medium created by quite a personal sensitivity. For example, what came to be called the "new cinema", which is quite a personal way of expression, is one of the new trends and it came to be recognized by the society.
In the Film Major, we grasp this broadened concept of Audio-Visual Contents as a trend of cultural and artistic expression. Understanding the history, we seek for a new possibility of personal expression in two fields: Film expression and Audio-Visual Expression.

What is conspicuous about Zokei's film making is that every student takes part in the whole making of the film from the beginning to the end, instead of having partial responsibilities. In other words we do not divide them in parts, such as: Producer, Scenario Writer, Director, Camera Operator, Mixer, etc. Another merit of learning at Zokei is that you can study not only Film but also Graphic Design, Animation, Interior Architecture, and Textile, through Common Subjects provided in the Department of Design. By becoming friends with students of other major, you can get help from them in making of film. This is a good environment for film-making.

Fields of study

∇ Film expression

Here, we learn the history of many film-making techniques, and also the influence of film-works upon the society, how it has changed through the years. The heritage of techniques and methods cultivated through the years is so precious that we can apply them to our works based on personal sense. We constantly work on how we take in the outside world: i.e. shooting and recording, how we combine the jumping scenes into a continuous flow: i.e. editing and dubbing, how we insert our work into the outside-world: i.e. putting on the screen.

∇ Audio-Visual expression

In this field, we study the history of films related to contemporary fine arts, without being bound by the normal concept of "movie". The students use freely all kinds of new technology and media to make their original works based on their individual sensitivity, like a poet who is free from the past way of thinking writing new poems, and like a composer making new music.