Film Directing Class

After 2009 :

Lul-Film

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FILM directing *

TOPICS: drama + comedy + postmodern + time + space + Artistic ID * Style * Story, Form & Genre * Screen Language * Projects * Script * Translation to the Screen * Directing the Frame * Subject Size * Angle * Perspective * Composition * Look * Movement * Continuity * Coverage * mise-en-scene * Casting * Rehearsal * Directing Actors * Audience * Expectation * Suspense * Surprise * Violence * Humor * Dynamic Dialogue Scenes * Static Dialogue Scenes * Group Dialogue Scenes * Tips * Documentaries & Experimental * scripts *

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing. - Robert Bresson

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2006: no class project?

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Instructors

THR470

Film Glossary:

Cameras, tapes, everything you need, you have to find yourself. The department doesn't have the equipment to lend or rent.

Film-making is a twentieth-century art born of science. [ The Film-Maker's Art, see textbooks ]

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[ do not plan to teach this class anymore ]

* pages in this directory will be used for film analysis ( and film600 )

(c)2004:
2006

Summary

Filmmaking is a course which introduces students to the art of making films. Students in this course are expected to achieve a basic mastery of filmmaking theory and technique using video cameras.

Class Projects: You will be working in groups of 4. Each member of the group will have a specific task. The whole group will collaborate to create the informative project.

Roles, depending on your project:
Director
Producer/Production Manager
Scriptwriter
Director of Photography/Editor

Project #1- Short Screenplay (10-15 minutes) Treatment + Outline + 3 Drafts

Cuts and adaptation for the screen -- 5 scenes (Bianca Story) from the Taming of the Shrew for Theatre UAF Fall 2004 main stage production *

one act fest

Notes

Film & Literature *

* Shake 2004: Bianca Story
Film Acting * Filming Shakespeare's Plays : The Adaptations of Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa, by Anthony Davies Cambridge University Press; (September 30, 1988) ASIN: 0521335086

film.vtheatre.net
film.vtheatre.net/doc

Index * Mining Film * Books * Film-North * Film & Drama * Theatre Theory * METHOD acting * STAGEMATRIX: Fundamentals of Direction *

* Classes * Virtual Theatre * Bookmark vTheatre! Mailing List & News -- subscribe yourself * The Book of Spectator *

FILM class

.... 2006

The old class page, this is the page for Fall 2001 course (it should be considered as "Fundamentals of Film Directions"). Nevertheless, by the end of the semester you should have a decent tape in your hand to send to grad schools.
There are three areas to focus: scripting, shooting, editing. And while through it learn a little bit about the process itself. Also, the skills that are required to be a filmmaker (team work, understanding the artistic and technical tasks).
In the right table on every page is the link to ONLINE directing class from Yahoo, where the student scripts are posted. Also, there are archives of the Directors Forum, List, you might subscribe to.
Since this is an intro to basics of the filmmaking, I have to cover two different subjects: aesthetics (film language) and the production aspect. Everything in twelve weeks! And this is why this class is introduction ONLY!
[The pages are updated, when I teach this class.]

Film Directing:

@2001-2004-2006 film-north * NEXT: Film-Books * Textbooks Š2004 filmplus.org *

Film Directing:

possible plan(s)

script breakdown 10%
the studio production team 5%
directing terminology 5%
talent and camera blocking 10%
makeup 5%
timing 5%
technical direction 10%
directing 50%

Examine it:

 
Class: Writing The Screenplay 101

Meets four times for an hour each. 

Students will accomplish at least ten pages, not exceeding 30 pages, of script development. 
Students will learn the basics of screenwriting and ascertain enough knowledge to continue writing their screenplay and finish. 

First Class
Finding the Heart of your story
- Plot or Character driven, which is best?
- Cause and Effect (Characters and Plot)
- Thinking about Characters
- Fully fleshed Characters
- The Paradigms of a Story

Second Class
Screenplay Structure 
(This is not a discussion on simply the 3-Acts, 
every story has a beginning, middle, and an end or it would not be a story, 
and we're only interested in writing screenplays with a story.)
- What is Structure and why is it important?
- What Structure best suits your Story?
- Structure and Genre
- Classic Structure: Linear
   Journey
   Chase
   Search
- Types of Alternative Narrative Structure 
   Free Form/Concentric
   Coiled
   Fractured
   Looping
   Parallel
   Split
   Unbalanced

Third Class
Writing your first ten pages
- The Setup: the or else scene
- Establishing genre and drama
- Connecting the Audience
- Case Studies 
- Looking Ahead towards your Second and Third Acts 
(setups and payoffs)

Fourth Class
- Writing the Scene
- Types of Scenes
Scene Dialectics
- Ins and Outs
- Functions
- Structures
- Sequences