Script Writing
“Theory of Narrative: Propp’s ideas of narratology, Character Types, Structures of Story, Idea, Plot, Narrative Structures – Three Act Structure, Storyboarding, Ideating, conceiving of the Plot, Research on the topic, Writing Script for a Short Film
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Camera
Basic of Still Camera, Basics of Movie Camera, Digital camera Programming, Various types of shots, Movements of camera, angles of camera, Different shot composition in cinema, Different Formats: DV, DVCAM, HDV, HD, Lighting, Colour, Setting
Sound
“Nature of sound waves, Propagation process, Frequency, Amplitude, Wavelength, Pitch, Microphones, Digital Audio: Theory, Process and application, Introduction to location recording, Overview of Studio Processes, Post Production processes.
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Editing
Theories of Editing, Continuity editing (Classical Hollywood style), Spatial Association of Shots, Temporal Association of Shots, Digital Editing and its difference with Analogue System, Off-line editing, Online editing, Type of Transitions and their uses in films, Eisenstein’s theory of montage, Kuleshov Effect, Discontinuity in Editing: Discontinuity in Ozu, Discontinuity in Bunuel, Discontinuity in Godard Forms and aesthetics of editing for different medium: Editing in Cinema, Editing in Television, Editing for Advertisements, Editing for Documentary, Editing for Music Video, Studying edit sequences from films of different genres and directors with different styles Digital Editing Codecs, Compression, Digital connectors, Linear Vs Nonlinear, Various Video Formats, Understanding Video signals, Introduction to Editing Software, Introduction to video compositing, Keying- Details of Green screen and blue screen footage compositing and their set up – Color correction – 2D Tracking
Filmmaking
Production of Fiction Filmmaking, Non-Fiction Filmmaking, Advertisments, Music Videos.