Universidade Lusófona do Porto

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Duration / Confered Degree / ECTS

3 Years (6 Semester) / Bachelor / 180 ECTS

Programme Director

João Sousa Cardoso

Entrance Exams

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Qualification requirements and regulations

Candidates should have completed secondary school or equivalent qualification. Under current legislation any course of secondary education is qualification enough to compete.
The applicant must submit proof of completion of the national survey of the discipline that the establishment has taken as proof of admission to the course they want to apply and meet the minimum score of 95 points.

Objectives

The Degree in Audiovisual Communication and Multimedia aims to train in areas that integrate cultural, social and technological issues related to the creation and implementation of multimedia content. The main objective of this degree is to provide adequate means for understanding and mastering the language of the media, as well as capacity-building narratives, challenging the imagination and creativity in order to train designers capable of working in the labor market, which includes offices of web design, multimedia publications, advertising agencies, video producers, communications operators, and other small and medium enterprises.

Knowledge, abilities and skills to be acquired

The Multimedia marks the human habitat, without audiovisual and multimedia the world would be unrecognizable, and in our existential reality, uninhabitable. Thus, the degree of Audiovisual Communication and Multimedia bet on a comprehensive training, equipping the student responsiveness to multiple areas in which communication and audiovisual media currently operate.
These areas include the development, writing and producing projects filmic, television and videographic fiction; documentary, institutional and advertising, production, production and executive production assistance projects filmic, television and videographic fiction, documentary, institutional and advertising ; film directing, lighting and imaging assistance; operations in camera film technology, film and video, image control and operations vt; audio post-production, sound capture and sound design, post production and visual composition in filmic projects, television and videographic drama, documentary, institutional and advertising; analogue and digital photography, promotion and distribution of audiovisual and multimedia project management and conceção multimedia, development and writing projects, consultancy projects in multimedia and information systems; design applications, interfaces and information for multimedia platforms (web, offline, mobile) and realization of projects of animation, modeling and 2D and 3D animation, multimedia programming environments, systems analysis and design multimedia, graphic design, typesetting and production of infographics.
All these areas are addressed in the course, in areas of theoretical and practical laboratory, whilst investing in personalized learning environments and in models of teamwork.

Further Studies

The first cycle degree in Audiovisual Communication and Multimedia paves the way for the formation of the second cycle in the masters program in Communication Systems Multimedia, Design, Art and Film Studies.

Occupacional Profiles

Advertising Agencies;
Companies Developing Web Pages and Web Content Management;
Publishers of media content;
Producing video;
Communications Operators;
Business Consulting and Design in Communication and Image;
Institutions for teaching and research in Multimedia Design and Communication and Information Sciences

Scientific Areas

Áudio-visuais e produção dos media;

Teaching staff

Lecturer	Academic Degrees	Dedication time
Alexandra Maria Lourenço Dias	Master	Full-time
António Manuel João Preto	Doctorate	Part-time
Francisco Manuel Rebelo De Almeida Espinhaço	Bachelor	Part-time
Hugo Amílcar Castelo Pires	Master	Part-time
Isabel Maria Perez Da Silva Babo Lança	Doctorate	Full-time
Jorge Manuel Leandro De Oliveira Rosa	Doctorate	Part-time
João Domingos Pinho Alves De Sousa	Master	Full-time
João Sousa Cardoso	Doctorate	Full-time
Marco André Monteiro Ferreira	Bachelor	Part-time
Maria José Moutinho Ferreira	Doctorate	Full-time
Maria Mire Das Dores Santos Carriço	Master	Part-time
Paulo João Nunes Zsoldos Heitlinger	Doctorate	Full-time
Rui Luís Nogueira Penha	Bachelor	Part-time
Tiago Manuel De Sousa Dias Afonso	Bachelor	Part-time
álvaro Samuel Guimarães Da Mota	Master	Part-time

Study Plan

Ministerial Decree nº25312/2009 of 18 November

1st Year / Core Curriculum		ECTS
Film Theory	Semestral	6
Script Writing II	Semestral	6
Camera and Video Operations	1º Semestre	6
History of the Media	1º Semestre	4
Introduction to Computing	1º Semestre	6
Photography Theory	1º Semestre	6
Script Writing I	1º Semestre	8
Audiovisual and Multimedia Production and Direction Workshop I	2º Semestre	8
Introduction to Design	2º Semestre	6
Photographic Practices	2º Semestre	6
2nd Year / Core Curriculum		ECTS
Audiovisual and Multimedia Production and Direction Workshop II	1º Semestre	8
Digital Image Computing	1º Semestre	6
Introduction to Contemporary Thought	1º Semestre	6
Sound Theory	1º Semestre	6
Visual Culture	1º Semestre	4
2D and 3D Drawing and Animation	2º Semestre	6
Audiovisual and Multimedia Editing and Post-Production	2º Semestre	6
Communications Theory and Models	2º Semestre	4
Culture and Media Economics	2º Semestre	4
Multimedia Product Design	2º Semestre	6
Photography Direction and Lighting	2º Semestre	6
3rd Year / Core Curriculum		ECTS
Communication and Information Law	1º Semestre	6
Contemporary Art	1º Semestre	6
Option 1	1º Semestre	6
Script Writing Workshop	1º Semestre	6
Sound Effects Workshop	1º Semestre	6
Audiovisual and Multimedia Production and Direction Workshop III	2º Semestre	10
Option 2	2º Semestre	6
Project Seminar and Professional Integration	2º Semestre	10