Audiovisual Media Arts
Humanities Master Studies in Audiovisual Media Arts is one of the most innovative and rigorous multidisciplinary training in Latvia. It is rooted in the best traditions of Auteur Cinema and expanded across various specialties: filmmaking, directing of photography, animation, video and CG generated graphics, interactive 2D and 3D production, and game development.
While comprehensive in its structure to train the future executives in film and television studios, ad agencies, animation studios, creative departments of social networking, and SFX and post-production houses, the program offers its students to specialize in a chosen field via Independent Studies cycle. The minor is declared by a student under auspices of an esteemed faculty member and, generally, in the areas of film directing, art directing, animation, and post production supervising.
| Degree awarded: |
Master in Audio and Visual Media Arts |
| Language of instructions: |
English |
Programme director:
Janis Holsteins
Tālr:+371 25618534
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Creative director:
Aigars Ceplitis
Tālr:+371 25620270
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Admission requirements:
CV, creative portfolio and individual inerview.
Why RISEBA, why Audiovisual Media Arts?
aesthetic, philological, and technical approach of the programme is instilled by the best Russian and American film school traditions,
the only Master Studies programme in Latvia where additional coursework in art theories and a selected course load in advanced workshops may be undertaken at the Latvian Academy of Art,
the only program where the graduates are offered a business module to increase their effective competitiveness in the global audiovisual market sectors,
a number of courses, be it Game Design, Film Narratology or Dramatic Construction via on-line with Hollywood Industry professionals, to name a few, are unique in the Baltic States,
a very individual approach to every student and instructed by the international group of accomplished artists and academics,
a flexible study schedule and a flexible payment schedule,
an effective ERASMUS exchange with similar programs at TAMK University of Applied Sciences, the School of Art and Media, the Academy of Visual Arts, Design and Pop Culture, MINERVA, Netherlands
an effective network with similar programs worldwide that conduct cutting edge workshops throughout the academic year,
technically best equipped infrastructure in media studies in the Baltic States.
Programme content*:
Cross-Media Technology and Integration
Cinematography
Photography
New Media and Film Editing and Aesthetics
Screenwriting
Stereoscopic 3D and Virtual Reality
Documentary Film Production
Visual Semiotics in Media Design
Game Analysis
Motion Graphics and Design in Cinema 4D
Interactive Cinema
Advanced Soundscapes
Directing for Stage, TV, and New Media
Distribution and Niche Marketing
Advanced Directing of Photography
Animation and SFX
Producing
Conformity of Cultures
Pipeline Route in Autodesk Smoke
Filma Narratology
Intellectual Property and Legal Aspects in Creative Industries
Modular Synthesis in Post Production Sound
Mobile Game Technologies
* RISEBA reserve rights to make adjustments up to 20 % of the programme content. For more specific information about the study course qualifications, please contact programme creative director.
Form of study, course duration and tuition fee:
| Study form |
Duration |
Fee per year Ls |
Fee per year EUR
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| Full time evening studies |
2 years |
2100 Ls per year |
3000 EUR per year
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