Education
Plekhanov Russian University of Economics
Media Communications, Film and Media Production track
Coursework
Year 1 2025–2026
Fall semester 2025
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Course 1 Grade: excellent
Brief description of the syllabus.
What I learned
What I learned: a short narrative.
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Course 2 Grade: excellent
Brief description of the syllabus.
What I learned
What I learned: a short narrative.
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Course 3 Grade: excellent
Brief description of the syllabus.
What I learned
What I learned: a short narrative.
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Spring semester 2026
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Course 1 Grade: excellent
Brief description of the syllabus.
What I learned
What I learned: a short narrative.
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Course 2 Grade: excellent
Brief description of the syllabus.
What I learned
What I learned: a short narrative.
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Course 3 Grade: excellent
Brief description of the syllabus.
What I learned
What I learned: a short narrative.
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Year 2 2026–2027
Fall semester 2026
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Course 1
Brief description of the syllabus.
What I learned
What I learned: a short narrative.
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Course 2
Brief description of the syllabus.
What I learned
What I learned: a short narrative.
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Course 3
Brief description of the syllabus.
What I learned
What I learned: a short narrative.
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Reading list
Directing and film theory
- Sergei Eisenstein, Montage
- Vsevolod Pudovkin, The Film Director and Film Material
- Lev Kuleshov, The Art of Cinema
- Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time
- Mikhail Romm, Conversations about Cinema
Cinematography
- Anatoli Golovnya, The Craft of the Cinematographer
- Sergei Medynsky, Composing the Film Frame
- Peter Ward, Picture Composition for Film and Television
- Bruce Block, The Visual Story
- Valentin Zheleznyakov, Colour and Contrast: Technology and Creative Choice
Lighting
- Anatoli Golovnya, Light in the Cinematographer's Art
- John Alton, Painting with Light
- Blain Brown, Motion Picture and Video Lighting
- David Samuelson, Motion Picture Camera and Lighting Equipment
- Jost Marchesi, Professional Lighting Technique
Editing
- Walter Murch, In the Blink of an Eye
- Karen Pearlman, Cutting Rhythms: Intuitive Film Editing
- Natalya Utilova, Film Editing
- Daniel Arijon, Grammar of the Film Language
- Justin Chang, FilmCraft: Editing