Beijing Film Academy

Beijing Film Academy is the only university in China to cultivate film professionals. In the past 55 years, it has gradually formed a multi-disciplinary and multi-level film education system with professional production as the main body, teaching, creation and scientific research as well. With its excellent teaching tradition, strong teaching staff, complete departments and specialties, perfect teaching equipment, standardized teaching order and other unique advantages, Beijing Film Academy has become an important base for cultivating talents of film art creation, management and theoretical research in China. Over the years, Beijing Film Academy has enjoyed a high reputation in China and the world for its outstanding achievements and brilliant history, attracting a large number of students at home and abroad who are determined to devote themselves to the film industry. Beijing Film Academy also has a team of teachers with high academic standards, forming a film education pattern oriented to the 21st century and aiming at cultivating high-level modern film and television comprehensive talents. 1) History: Beijing Film Academy was founded in 1950. Its predecessor was the Institute of Performing Arts (film school) of the central film administration. In 1956, it was renamed Beijing Film Academy by the State Council, which has a history of 52 years. Since 1956, the college has been recruiting undergraduate students. At the same time, it has continued to train in-service professional cadres for the needs of the development of new China's film industry. From 1956 to 1965, the college provided more than 1300 graduates for China's film industry. These graduates, who were trained in the early days of the college and in the 1960s, became the professional backbone of China's film industry. Since the 1970s, they have been active in important positions in China's film and Television Art creation. From 1966 to 1977, the film education of the college was completely paralyzed. In 1973, Jiang Qing and others merged the art colleges in Beijing under the Ministry of culture into the central May 7th University of Arts, and the Beijing Film Academy was changed into the film school of the central May 7th University of Arts. After the end of the cultural revolution and the smashing of the gang of four, the original Beijing Film Academy was restored in 1977 with the approval of the State Council. In 1978, the college resumed undergraduate enrollment. In 1982, the students became the first batch of graduates of Beijing Film Academy who were awarded bachelor's degree. In the following 22 years, many students of various majors have become famous filmmakers in China and even in the world, making important contributions to the influence of China Film in the world. Since 1984, our college has been recruiting postgraduates for master's degree; in 2003, it was approved by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council as a doctoral degree awarding unit, and since 2004, we have been recruiting doctoral postgraduates. 2) academic level: Beijing Film Academy is famous for its comprehensive professional setting and substantial curriculum system. At present, it is the only famous film art college in China with complete teaching hardware equipment, rich teaching experience, strong scientific research force, excellent curriculum and teaching quality, first-class academic theory research level and the largest scale to cultivate senior professionals in film art creation, theory, technology and management. Among more than 100 film technology and art colleges and universities in the world, Beijing Film Academy is in the forefront of campus construction, school scale, subject orientation, faculty, curriculum, teaching equipment, artistic creation, talent quality, teaching level, teaching management and theoretical research achievements. At present, it is the most characteristic college in China's higher art education and the largest and world-famous film art college in Asia. 3) Professional characteristics: the characteristics of film education and teaching in Beijing Film Academy are: the talent training mode of film major takes the production major as the main body, and takes into account the research of history, theory and criticism, artistic creation and scientific research. The college has been striving for the goal of constantly strengthening the discipline construction of cinematography, comprehensively enriching and improving the teaching quality, establishing a team of teachers with excellent academic level, constructing and forming effective and unique teaching methods and school running characteristics of cinematography. 4) Discipline construction: in 2003, our college finally successfully applied for the doctoral degree awarding unit, established the doctoral program of film science, and added two master programs of "fine arts" and "radio and television art". Beijing Film Academy has 8 teaching units, 6 branches, Graduate Department and basic department, and a total of 16 teaching implementation departments. According to the Ministry of education, there are 10 majors (36 directions): Literature Department: drama, film and television literature. Director department: Director major. (feature film, documentary, editing, film and television program) photography department: photography major; (feature film photography, documentary photography, science and education film photography, film and television lighting) Fine Arts Department: drama, film and television art design major, advertising major. (film art design, stunt art, advertising production, film and television make-up) recording Department: recording major. (recording technology, recording art, music recording) management department: public utilities management major; (film and television production, distribution and projection, cultural economic person) film department: (film Research Institute) drama, film and television literature major. (film theory, film criticism, film and television creation) at the same time, responsible for the publication of the college journal, the work of the college information center and the work of the college network. Department of digital film and television technology: (Institute of digital media technology) (image engineering, digital film and television technology, new media technology, online games) School of performance: performance major. School of Photography: photography major. (photo photography) Animation College: animation major. (animation, cartoon design, computer graphics, 3D computer animation) College of Continuing Education: Performance Major: (film and television performance, program host, film and television model); drama and television literature major: (Drama); director major: (film and television director, film and television program production, director,); photography major: (television photography, photo photography); drama and television art design Major: (film and television art design, film and television make-up,); advertising major: (advertising production); Animation Major: (film and television animation) International Exchange College: Director, performance, photography and other film and television majors. Higher Vocational College: recruit higher vocational (junior college) students of various majors. Graduate department: recruiting and managing graduate students from various research fields of film science. Basic department: responsible for the common course teaching of all levels of students. At present, the college has four major undergraduate programs in Beijing: Director, photography, performance and animation, and one master program: cinematography. The key disciplines of the two master's programs are fine arts and radio and Television Arts. Institute of Film Studies: undertaking national, provincial and ministerial level scientific research projects and Research on art theory, and cultivating postgraduates with master's degree in film history and theory. Institute of digital media technology: undertake the research work of national, provincial and ministerial level technology research projects and applied technology theory, and cultivate master degree graduates of new media technology, digital film and film application technology. Relevant departments of the college have established corresponding research institutes to complete national, provincial and ministerial academic research projects. 5) Laboratory Construction: the key to the development and personnel training of film production major is the construction of basic disciplines and laboratories. In recent years, the college has focused on strengthening the laboratory construction of professional basic courses and professional courses, and some unique film professional laboratories have played a huge role in the teaching process. For example: lighting room, darkroom, studio, film studio, special effects studio, studio, recording studio, dynamic effect studio, editing room, non-linear editing room, projection room and other professional laboratories have already had scale and formed unique characteristics. In particular, the college currently has three important laboratories of film science, which play a leading role in the technology and art of film science: 1) animation sensing, graphics and image laboratory. It can capture real-time images of real-time human action and produce various types of computer animation works. Among them, the animation produced by teachers and students has achieved excellent results and won awards at home and abroad. (2) recording technology laboratory. There are several dialogue recording studios, dynamic recording studio and mixed recording studio, which can be used for film and TV sound production. The studio once undertook the post production of the film hero by famous film director Zhang Yimou. He once undertook the post production of the film "with you" by the famous film director Chen Kaige. (3) digital film (HDTV) laboratory. With the current international advanced digital film pre production and post editing equipment, the laboratory has begun to carry out the research on digital media technology and digital film production application technology. The laboratory has begun to undertake the production of digital film short film shooting, and shooting the digital HD TV documentary of the first session of the 10th National people's Congress in 2003. 6) School scale: the number of students has increased significantly. In recent years, on the basis of keeping the total number of existing staff unchanged, and on the premise of maintaining the teaching hardware conditions and teaching quality, the college has gradually expanded the scale of enrollment. In the past 10 years, the level of running the college has changed greatly. In general higher education, there are advanced students, higher vocational students (junior college), undergraduate students, junior college students, graduate students and in-service personnel who apply for master's degree with the same academic level. The forms of adult education include night University, correspondence students, semi full-time system, full-time day education, and the levels of education include junior college students, junior college students and undergraduates. Up to now, there are more than 3300 students in the University. At the same time, there are 120 students from 25 countries and regions and from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. 7) Graduate Education: at present, the college has 90 graduate tutors and 11 doctoral tutors, including 2 professors

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