[ must read 60 pp. a week from the textbook! Reading assignments will be on the subject pages @ directing.filmplus.org main directory! View the required films and movies at home. Weekly quizes are online. ]
Schedule
Week One: FILMMAKING Part One. Scripting Story, Concept, Outline. Directing: History & Theory. Pre-test (Eisenstein) Dramatic Composition (Hamlet) [submit your bio/resume and expectation of the directing course to the Class List]
Week Two: First Draft, Re-writes. (Bergman: script and scenes from "Wild Strawberries") Presentation in class and selection. Team assignments.
Week Three: Script is due (grade). Floor plan (Mise-en-Scene): Directing Actors. Acting for the Camera and Biomechanics (Method and Monologues)
Week Four: Part Two -- Preproduction Storyboard. Shooting script. Light. Directing Camera. (Action Movies)
Week Five: Shots in Class and Footage. Film Theory Test Great Shots.
Week Six: Shot-by-shot book is due. Cuts examination. Part Three -- Production
Week Seven: Sound. (Amadeus by Forman) Acting for the camera.
Week Eight: Text, Subtext, Counter-Text and Counter-Point. Style
Week Nine: Part Four -- PostProduction Scenes: screening.
Week Ten: Reshooting. Editing.
Week Eleven: Cutting and Re-editing.
Week Twelve: Screening the the rough and final cuts.
PROJECTS: teams -- Director, Camera, Script (see Forms -- fill them out and email to me).
Finals -- Screening the final cuts: Public Viewing. Awards.
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