Description
Our stories make us human, and the way that we tell our stories is as distinctive as our fingerprints. During the first few weeks of class, each student will write a short screenplay that will be used as the basis for learning the processes that a director uses to actualize his/her unique creative vision for a film. Development of the screenplay will continue in conferences. In class, lessons about the meaning of shots, concepts in staging and camera movement, creating look books, and directing filmed character exercises will immerse the student in the director’s preparatory process. Camera and editing workshops will provide a basic understanding of the tools of filmmaking. These tools will be applied to making storyboards and shot lists for directing a final, significant scene from the student’s screenplay. To further grasp the essential power of editing to the filmmaking process, each student’s footage will be given to another student to edit and show, following the director’s cut, i