Prerequisites: COMM 135 and COMM 274.
This advanced course in screen directing is designed to further students' narrative filmmaking skills. Geared toward creating fiction films, the course focuses primarily on blocking for the camera, directing actors for the screen, and structuring dramatic scenes. Students should have a working knowledge of basic videography, nonlinear editing, shot composition, and film grammar.
Outcomes: Communicate effectively with talent and crew; Analyze a narrative scene for its dramatic and stylistic elements; Direct single-camera narrative scenes; Produce and construct narrative films/videos from a screenplay.
This advanced course in screen directing is designed to further students' narrative filmmaking skills. Geared toward creating fiction films, the course focuses primarily on blocking for the camera, directing actors for the screen, and structuring dramatic scenes. Students should have a working knowledge of basic videography, nonlinear editing, shot composition, and film grammar.
Outcomes: Communicate effectively with talent and crew; Analyze a narrative scene for its dramatic and stylistic elements; Direct single-camera narrative scenes; Produce and construct narrative films/videos from a screenplay.