Video Design and Film making
Use videography as a tool to convey your emotions and passion for films and TV series
Rome
On campus
ITA
First Level Academic Diploma in New Art Technologies - Video Design
Language
Italian
Start date
October 2025
Frequency
Full time
Fruition
On campus
Duration
3 Years
Credits
180
Course Coordination
Lorenzo Vignolo
Do you want to share stories and express your own feelings through film images, TV series and video clips? All this is waiting for you in the Video Design and Film making programme at IED Roma
The three-year programme in Video Design and Film making at IED Roma will provide you with training on how to express your creativity and work with moving images. You will understand the fundamentals of directing and setting, writing and filming, production, post-production as well as graphic editing.
You will become a professional in the areas of video communication for cinema, TV and new media, building on all the knowledge and practice developed over the years.
Issued Degree:
Diploma Accademico di Primo Livello (DAPL), corresponding to a Bachelor of Arts Degree (BA) – EQF6 Level (European Qualification Framework).
Credits:
The course awards 180 CFA (Academic Formative Credits), corresponding to 180 ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System).
Information to decide
Use scrolling images to communicate emotions, concepts and get viewers to think and dream. Find your personal style and become a professional art director and producer.
The Video Design and Film making programme at IED Roma will inspire and connect you with the whole process of on-set project design as well as direction of actors and photography.
The aim of the programme is to enhance your skills and personal sensitivity to help you manage artistic direction and deal with the overall production process of audiovisual works. From brainstorming an idea to writing, from shooting and editing to sound tracking, you will acquire problem solving skills and learn how to liaise with everyone involved in the process.
Over the three-year programme, a variety of workshops, seminars and projects will allow you to expand your knowledge, encourage your creativity, gain specific experience and understand how to express yourself clearly with your work.
The Video Design and Film making programme at IED Roma is for students who want to turn their passion for films, TV series, short films and commercials into an exciting job.
If you feel a strong desire to tell your stories and emotions through the camera’s eye, the Video Design and Film making degree programme at IED Roma is the right way to go. Feel the passion of telling a story right through every single frame.
You will be working on creative projects, with the opportunity to learn from industry professionals and share personal insights with your peers as you discover your professional identity.
Attending the Video Design and Film making programme at IED Roma means that you will learn directly from the source as Rome is the city of cinema by its very nature.
Here you will have the opportunity to learn the newest audiovisual techniques and tools, as Rome is the place where most of the contemporary storytelling found in TV series and fiction is coming from.
The Video Design and Film making degree programme at IED Roma will make available to you a number of computer labs, a professional web-TV and a Pose Theatre for live action and green screen shooting. All of this will be useful to create short films, web series, commercials, videos and audiovisual installations together with peers from other areas of study.
Upon completion of the programme you will be able to work as a Film maker, Video Designer, Digital Art Director, Producer, Operator, Editor, Composer, Motion Graphic Designer, Author of theme songs, video clips, commercials, fashion movies, video art, bumper graphics and trailers for cinema and multimedia broadcasting.
Syllabus
first year
The first year will allow you to acquire key technical and project design tools. You will gradually become familiar with all concepts related to art, image, multimedia and video editing. You will also be acquiring an effective working method to manage your creative flow and turn ideas into action and hands-on projects.
HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART
THEORY AND ANALYSIS OF CINEMA AND AUDIOVISUAL COMMUNICATION
ARTISTIC COMMUNICATION: TOOLS AND METHODS
DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING 1
THEORY OF PERCEPTION AND PSYCHOLOGY OF FORM
VIDEO EDITING 1
MULTIMEDIA PROJECT DESIGN 1
SEMIOTICS OF ART
GRAPHIC DESIGN
second year
On your second year you will build on the knowledge acquired over the previous year and focus on some important areas such as directing, sound design and videography. Step by step, you will consolidate your skills on the field and become increasingly independent in your work.
VIDEOGRAPHY
MULTIMEDIA PROJECT DESIGN 2
PHENOMENOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS
VIDEO EDITING 2
DIRECTING 1
SOUND DESIGN
MULTIMEDIA PROJECT DESIGN 3
MULTIMEDIA INSTALLATIONS
PROJECT DESIGN METHODOLOGY FOR VISUAL COMMUNICATION
third year
You will take part in projects under supervision, with the opportunity to test yourself and work with important institutions and firms. Your professional knowledge will expand and you will be prepared to start working on your dissertation project with inputs and constant support from all your lecturers.
MASS MEDIA THEORY AND METHOD
DIRECTING 2
TECHNIQUES OF NEW INTEGRATED MEDIA
ART DIRECTION
MULTIMEDIA PROJECT DESIGN 4
IMAGE PROCESSING 2
Faculty
Lorenzo Vignolo
Director
Course Coordinator
Lorenzo Sportiello
Umberto Carteni
Lorenzo Corvino
Carla Altieri
Alessandro Amato
Stefano Rebechi
Devor De Pascalis
Luigi Sardiello
Screenwriter
Sergio Alberini
Video Editor & Colorist
Rosario Balistreri
Marco Valerio Caminiti
Senior Colorist
Paolo Bravi
Photography Director
Giulio Pietromarchi
Marco De Giorgi
Alice Felloni
Visual designer, Visual Artis and videomapping expert
Luca Miranda
Art Director and Senior Motion Graphic Designer for Fox Channel
Cinzia Leggieri
Elena Frova
Federico Pascali
Art Director & Motion Graphic Designer
Marco Michiorri
Motion Graphic Designer
Marco Cannella
Motion Graphic Designer
Inti D'Ayala Valva
Max Giovagnoli
Transmedia Producer & Storyteller
Francesco Ugolini
3D Artist
Stefano Arduini
Creative Director
Claudia Pecoraro
Barbara D'ambrosio
Serafino Murri
Stefano Luceri
Inside the labs
+5
VIDEO LAB
+3
COMPUTER LABS
+9
PHOTO STUDIO
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