Hello Film Makers!
This course explores building cinematic scenes to visualize a narrative script's dramatic intentions. Primary emphasis is on film grammar: the filmmaker's ability to tell stories visually using meaningful shot design and camera placement, shot sequence, and editing for pace. Where do you point the camera and sequence your shots to hold the emotions of the story and move it forward? Students work collaboratively in production crews to design, shoot, and edit scenes based on scripts from well known films with stylistic variety. These films are the compared to each other and to the originals to evaluate interpretation and techniques. Films will be screened, evaluated, and compared frequently.
Objectives:
Ability to identify, recall, and employ basic principles, terminology of cinema, including shot types, editing transitions, storyboards
Ability to identify and recall the tasks of , and act as, any member of a film production crew
Ability to assemble film shots in a sequence which supports the story and emotion goals of a script. This includes script analysis leading to shot lists
Ability to apply cinema principles and terminology one’s own shot and sequence choices, and verbalize the reasoning
To plan and storyboard short movies sequence and output them as videos
Students will be able to identify and use the features of video editing software programs, which will be used download digital video footage, assemble sequences, and output films as video
Work in a collaborative film production environment including the ability to critique and receive critique using animation, cinema, and visual terminology
Familiarity, ability to recall, and employ the style of, important trends and films in the history of cinema
These objectives will be achieved through lectures, demonstration of techniques, exercises, two longer independent projects, journals, and critique of assignments and projects
- Instructor: Andrew Lyndon