Film Studies

Our Film Studies elective is a cross-discipline class that draws from the diverse strengths of our students to create beauty. Our writers use beautiful words to skillfully bring stories to life as they collaborate with actors, directors, artists and their technology-minded peers. The course looks at film production through the ages, aesthetics and history of the 20^th  century’s most important visual medium—the cinema. As a storytelling device, as a historical document, as an expression of imagination, as an artistic object, there is no form more capable of capturing our interest and provoking our senses. The cinema can create worlds of faith, magic, fantasy and romance just as easily as it can expose the dim reality of actually-lived life.

Biblical Worldview

Veritas Academy approaches all of its teaching from a Biblical worldview. Therefore, our values and attitudes  are shaped by a Biblical worldview. Affirming the reality of the trivium of Truth, Goodness and Beauty is easy for a school to put in their mission statement, putting feet on these necessary elements of a classical Christian education is another matter. In he film industry, it can be particularly messy. To guide our instruction, we include the following definitions of our terms with some examples from Scripture:

Truth – That which is unchangeable over time and place: God’s Word and work. Examples:

• Jesus Christ is God incarnate (John 1:1).
• God made the heavens and the earth (Gen. 1:1).

Goodness – That which is always appropriate to express or do: Holy actions. Examples:

• You shall love your neighbor as yourself (Lev.19:18 ).
• Speak so as to edify and build up others (Col. 3:16,17).

Beauty – That which is always comely and adorning: Truth and goodness magnified creatively. Examples:

• The beauty of holiness (Ps.29:2).
• The heavens declare the glory of God (Ps. 19:1).