Course overview
Today, filmmakers are everybody: we all record and transmit audio-visual materials with our smartphones. The more we can learn about the art of motion pictures, the better we will be able to make meanings out of the world around us using captured images and sounds. This course immerses students in the practicalities, the aesthetics, and the contingencies of movie-making; it actively guides students in the production of their own short films using contemporary digital technology. Ideas like framing, cutting, setting, movement, composition, colour, texture, filtering, cropping, zooming, close-ups, and so on, are fundamental to the art of motion pictures. Here you will learn the fundamentals and help shape your own artistic approach.
Course learning outcomes
- Develop a practicable storyboard for short film production
- Reflect critically on the decisions behind a final shot sequence
- Work collaboratively with fellow students on a short film production
- Use editing software to cut shots and mix sounds
- Produce a short digital 'film'
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