Course details

This specialised program develops students in their appreciation for the evolution of film making as well as its influence on today’s film industry. Students will receive hands-on-training across the key disciplines of film making, including the preproduction, production, as well as post production processes.

Course Structure

  1. Module 1: Design Fundamentals
    • Principles of Design and Idea Generation
    • Creative Communication
    • Digital Graphic Design
  2. Module 2: Design Studies
    • Art Direction
    • Mixed Media Drawing and Rendering
    • Design Theory
  3. Module 3: Principles of Design
    • Principles of Layout
    • Typography for Design
    • Web Design
  4. Module 4: Animation and Multimedia Interfaces
    • Animation, Film and Multimedia Interfaces
    • Short Film Production
    • Sound for Screen and Multimedia
  5. Module 5: 3D Modelling and Animation for Designers
    • 3D Modelling Concepts and Visualisation
    • 3D Animation for Designers
    • Motion Graphic and Editing for Television
  6. Module 6: Filmmaking Fundamentals
    • Introduction to Film
    • The Art of Screenwriting and Storyboarding
    • Cinematography, Sound and Editing
  7. Module 7: Filmmaking Studies
    • Regional Cinema Studies
    • Film Production
    • Film Production Management
  8. Module 8: New Media Major
    • Major Project

How will I be assessed?

Assessment and examination are mainly project and assignment based, students are required to do a formal presentation at the end of each unit as a form of assessment in FMDS. Several preliminary presentations may occur as peer-to-peer assessment sessions, where projects are mounted for constructive comments and critique.

Updated on 08 November, 2015

About First Media Design School

First Media Design School (FMDS) is a famous popular specialized boutique design institution and the best private school in Singapore offering only designing, design management and design entrepreneurship programmes. FMDS is the education arm under the First Media Design Group, one of Singapore’s most successful and awarded groups in the design industry. FM Group has more than 20 years of industry designing experiences in Singapore and the region. It’s designing experience ranges from corporate & retail design & marketing communication, public relations, packaging design, publishing, advertising, event management, interactive media and IOS app development. In Singapore, it was instrumental to several national projects including the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority of Singapore (ICA), Casino Regulatory Authority of Singapore (CRA), National Environment Agency of Singapore (NEA), SingHealth Group, Singapore Management University (SMU), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), just to name a few. FMDS strives to cultivate a new generation of ‘whole brain’, industry-ready designers who possess both creative and cognitive commercial abilities, through its holistic teaching system consisting of design thinking and design management.

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