Variant of CIP 2011 - Primary groupings

02 - Visual and performing arts, and communications technologies

• 50. Visual and performing arts
• 10. Communications technologies/technicians and support services

50. - Visual and performing arts

This series comprises instructional programs that focus on the creation and interpretation of works and performances that use auditory, kinesthetic, and visual phenomena to express ideas and emotions in various forms, subject to aesthetic criteria.

50.06 - Film/video and photographic arts

This subseries comprises instructional program classes 50.0601 to 50.0699.

50.0601 - Film/cinema/video studies

This instructional program class comprises any program in the visual arts that focuses on the study of the history, development, theory, and criticism of the film/video arts, as well as the basic principles of film making and film production.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • cinema studies
  • film and video studies
  • film history
  • film history, theory, and criticism
  • film studies
  • film theory
  • motion picture studies

• Exclusion(s)

  • documentary production(50.0607)
  • film production(50.0602)
  • photo lab technician(10.0201)
  • theatre history(50.0505)

50.0602 - Cinematography and film/video production

This instructional program class comprises any program that prepares individuals to communicate dramatic information, ideas, moods, and feelings through the making and producing of films and videos. These programs include courses in theory of film, film technology and equipment operation, film production, film directing, film editing, cinematographic art, film audio, techniques for making specific types of films and/or videos, media technologies, computer image making, multi-media production, and the planning and management of film/video operations.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • cinema production
  • cinematography
  • film and video production
  • film directing
  • film making
  • film production
  • motion picture production

• Exclusion(s)

  • 2D and 3D animation technology(10.0304)
  • documentary production(50.0607)
  • film studies(50.0601)
  • photo lab technician(10.0201)
  • theatre production(50.0507)

50.0605 - Photography

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the principles and techniques of communicating information, ideas, moods, and feelings through the creation of images on photographic film, plates, digital images and that prepares individuals to be professional photographic artists. These programs include courses in camera and equipment operation and maintenance, film and plate developing, light and composition, films and printing media, colour and special effects, photographic art, photographic history, use of computer applications to record or enhance images and applications to the photography of various subjects.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • creative photography
  • photographic art
  • photography (except commercial)

• Exclusion(s)

  • commercial photography(50.0406)
  • photofinishing(10.0201)
  • photojournalism(09.0404)

50.0607 - Documentary production

This instructional program class comprises any program that prepares individuals to produce nonfiction film and video. These programs include courses in film and video writing, directing, and production; film studies; history of the documentary; research techniques; videography; editing; and business aspects of film production.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • documentary production

• Exclusion(s)

  • film and video production(50.0602)
  • film studies(50.0601)

50.0699 - Film/video and photographic arts, other

This instructional program class comprises any program not listed above that relates to Film/video and photographic arts.

• Exclusion(s)

  • audiovisual technician(10.0299)
  • commercial photography(50.0406)
  • photography, film and video - technologist/technician and assistant(10.0201)
  • photojournalism(09.0404)