Professional Course in Direction and Film Making

Professional Diploma in Film Making

COURSE OVERVIEW

If you have clicked your way to this page, then you too might be considering a career in Filmmaking. But excellence in Filmmaking cannot be achieved without adequate technical knowledge and aesthetic preparation. The ART OF CINEMA COURSE  is a complete technical and Film -Aesthetics program which will help anyone become a professional filmmaker. It is designed like a practical handbook which prepares anyone to find usable solutions for creative challenges.

The main highlights of the course are:

**Professional Course In Film Making and Direction

Selected Students will be getting a chance to be an Assistant Director Intern for our upcoming movie productions and will be thoroughly involved in the pre production and post production phases.

COURSE SYLLABUS

Screenplay Writing

  • Film History
  • Choosing Film Subjects
  • Understanding fabula, syuzhet and screen time
  • Working with Philosophical Themes and Ideas
  • Adapting pre-existing stories
  • Concept of Space and Time in Cinema
  • Time planning in scripts
  • Working towards a poly-sense cinematic experience
  • Creating Plots
  • Developing Characters
  • Working with Archetypes and Mythotypes
  • Hero’s Journey
  • Building Conflicts
  • Choosing Dramatic Strategies
  • Creating Narrative structures
  • Writing effective Dialogue
  • Film Analysis
  • Writing Scripts in correct Format
  • Marketing and pitching scripts
  • Preparing Shooting Scripts

Film Direction

  • Role of the Director
  • Understanding genres,styles and self-expression
  • Technical workflows of the filmmaking process
  • Budgeting
  • Pitching ideas
  • Financing and production models
  • Selecting the basic technical crew
  • Crew Structure and chain of command
  • Production Design including location management and set construction
  • Modes of acquiring production sound
  • Making Detailed Shot Breakdown plans
  • Working with Storyboards
  • Understanding Mise-en-Scene
  • Casting
  • Working with Actors
  • Preparing Shooting schedules
  • Shooting Protocols.
  • Career Management and counseling

Cinematography

The voice is another tool of an actor. In voice classes, students get to understand the power of their voice and gain an insight of how to modify it by controlling various resonators and muscles.

  • Introduction to Cameras
  • Introduction to Optics and Lenses
  • Elements of Visual Communication
  • Visual Design – Composition, Color Theory, Graphics, Textures, Tones
  • Building the Visual treatment plan for a film
  • Lighting Design
  • Choice of cameras, lenses, filters and shooting formats
  • Color correction and DI
  • Working with Computer Graphics
  • Working with Animation

Editing

  • Principles of Editing
  • Understanding Continuity
  • Re – Writing the script on the editing table
  • Building Dramatic Tension
  • Working with suspense and surprise
  • Understanding Rhythm, pace and tempo
  • Theory of Montage
  • Post Production planning
  • Final Mastering And Deliveries

Audiography

  • Physics of Sound
  • Introduction to microphones and recorders
  • Recording location sound
  • Soundtrack layering
  • Theory of Sound design
  • Audio mixing
  • Final export of sound stems

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