Masters of Cinema
Let’s Study with the Masters!
--All students are welcome!--

Director Yoji Yamada (Right), giving a lecture (Professor Ando is on the left)

What’s “Research Frontier”? “Research Frontier” courses are newly-organized courses from this year, which are offered by the Open Education Center for the purpose of putting Waseda’s outstanding achievements to account in education. Besides “Masters of Cinema,” there are “Forefront of the Life Sciences” and “World Strategy.”

Takeo Kimura, who works in a lot of movies as an art director, sits beside the platform and talks eagerly to the students.

Lecturers hereafter (planned) Month Day Lecturer July 2nd Isao Yukisada July 9th Jo Hisaishi July 16th Hirokazu Kore-eda July 23rd Masahiro Shinoda

To every Waseda student who loves the cinema! Do you know the course “Masters of Cinema -Everything about the Cinema-“?

This is one of the Research Frontier Courses. For every class we invite guest lecturers from the movie industry, such as movie directors, so you can learn about the process of making movies. Many distinguished people have already talked in this course, such as Yoji Yamada (“Twilight Samurai”), Chihiro Kameyama (“Odoru Dai-Sousasen”), Fumihiko Sori (“Ping Pong”).

Waseda has turned out many people in the movies, and hence it has various connections. In addition, the Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies (GITS) has been involved in making actual movies, and has the newest digital technology of image processing. “Masters of Cinema” is the course that concentrates on our connections, and thus is peculiar to Waseda.

In the class, specific movies are used as materials to discuss subjects, motifs, and technology or methods to embody those ideas in an image. As a result, students can develop their capacity to see the movies as an “overall art” from various viewpoints. The contents of this course are deep enough to entertain both students who want to be engaged in the movies in the future and the others who simply like movies.

Even students who didn’t register for it can audit “Master of Cinema”! The lecturers for the rest of the course on are listed below. Why don’t you soak yourself in the cinema on Saturday afternoon?

* Refer to the URL for more information.

Masters of Cinema -Everything About the Cinema-
[Faculty] Professor Kohei Ando at the Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies
[Schedule] Spring Term, 4th period of every Saturday
Building No. 8, Room 106
* Building No. 14, Room 201, for July 16th
[URL]http://www.waseda.jp/open/attention/reserch_frontier/masters_of_cinema.html

Voice of the Students

Kamebuchi (Left), Tanaka (Right), attending the class

Freshman in the Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies (studies at Professor Ando’s Seminar) Yu Kamebuchi

This kind of lecture course tends to have trouble in focusing, but I could feel the great spirit of the producers from all of the various lecturers, who transform an “image” into a “movie.” In addition, I have come to understand the idea of “the movies as a business,” which I had only vaguely grasped before. Now I perceive that important viewpoint is “to participate in the society using images.”

Sophomore in the School of Social Science, Ayumi Yasuoka

What’s good in this course is that you can listen to the real voice of movie directors, and you can ask questions to them directly. You can feel the atmosphere of a film studio just by sitting in the classroom. And, I’m encouraged by individuals’ personalities and ways of thinking. From taking this course, I came to understand how a movie is filmed, how scenes are trimmed, and what kind of stories a movie has in the past or the future, which are not told on the screen. I would like to discover the wide variety of appeal that movies have.

Senior in the School of Letters, Arts and Sciences II, Former chairman of Study Group for Movies, Taku Tanaka

In this course I’m learning that the most important issue for students who want to get involved in the movies is “what is making movies and images?” I like the atmosphere of this course because students can speak out their thoughts on the movies to the lecturers. Through taking this course, my horizons as a producer, on such topics as how we should approach movies and images, have been broadened.