Digital Film Making Residential Program

Syllabus for one year Digital Film Making Course

• History of Cinema
• Early Cinema
• Development of Classical Indian & Hollywood Cinema
  History of Global Film including European Film (1930-present)
  Origin of Classical Narrative Cinema-Soundless film
• Exploration of film and analysis of the three-part beginning, middle and end of story (This includes study of plot points, dramatic premise and resolution).

Students will study various films (World Cinemas) and try to understand and analyze the essence of filmmaking. Films from Director’s like Satyajit Ray, Vittorio De Sica, Akira Kurosawa and other masters will be shown and discussed.

Script

• Scriptwriting Process and it’s various phases
• Film Grammar for Scriptwriting
• Story: Pitching a Story (includes Shot, scene, sequence)
• Outline: Attempt at putting a story into a dramatic structure from catalyst to climax, Identifying the beginning, middle & end of the story, the theme and concept.
• Treatment: Structure & Composition, the more detailed version of Story told in scenes with plots, characters and dialogues
• Writing the final script.

Digital Video Cinematography

This class focuses on advanced digital video cinematography techniques for both studio and field. Students will operate HD video cameras, use lights, determine set and lighting needs, roll and need of a jib, block scenes and become familiar with topics including filmspace, continuity, lenses, color, filters and camera control.

Introduction to Digital Video Cinematography

• Cinematography, Interactivity and emotions through Cinematography, Building blocks, Compositions
• Lenses and Cameras
• Types of lenses: Zoom Lens, Prime Lens
• Types of Cameras: HD Cameras, Basics of Film Camera, difference between Film Camera and Digital Camera, DSLR and HDSLR Cameras.
• Lighting, Psychology of light, Visual Environment, Directional Effect of Light, Lighting design process.
• Three-point lighting, High-Key lighting, Low Key lighting
  Construction of a Shot, Color, Contrast, Deep Focus, Shallow Focus, Depth of Filed, Exposure, Racking focus, Frame Rate, Telephoto shot, Zoom shot.
• Framing, Angle of Framing, Aspect Ratio, Level of Framing, Canted Framing, Following Shot, Reframing, Point-Of-View shot, Wide angle Lens Scale, Extreme long shot, Long shot, Medium long shot, Medium Close-up, Close-up, Extreme Close-up Space, Deep space, Frontality, Matte shot, Offscreen space, Shallow space Movement of Camera, Crane Shot, Handheld Camera, Steady Shot, Pan, Tilt, Tracking shot, Whip Pan.
• Working with Audio, Capturing Audio while shooting, Recording Audio with HDSLR Video Camera, Importance of Audio while shooting.
• Costume, Acting and Typage Direction, Screenplay, Role of Directors, Vision of Directors, Screenplay and it’s presentation, Scene Analysis, Working with Actors.

Digital Video Editing

This class focuses on advanced digital video editing techniques where student will learn the basic as well as advanced level of Video Editing with Final Cut Pro X. The Following chapters will be covered in detail:

• Introduction to Video Editing & System requirements
• Effective Editing
• Principles of Video Editing
• Non-Linear Editing (NLE) Concept
• The Three-Point Edit
• Non‐Linear Editing (NLE) Techniques
• Working in the Timeline
• Transitions
• Keyframing
• Applying Filters
• Ingesting
• Advanced Editing Techniques
• NLE Compositing
• Color Correction & Color Grading
• Working on Audio Titling