SCREEN 712

Advanced Drama Directing

Please note: this is archived course information from 2019 for SCREEN 712.

Description

An advanced course designed to teach the directing of actors for screen and the relationships between performance, blocking and visual narrative. Emphasis will be placed on the finding and linking of style, content and intention. Students will act and direct in front of the class and workshop, write, direct and edit an original seven minute dramatic short film.

Building on SCREEN 701 you will take the screenplays you wrote last semester as a basis for a number of visual and performance based assignments that lead to your production and direction of a final short film. An intensive first 6 weeks leads to a 4 week shooting block, with the remainder spent in post-production.

Course Objectives

To introduce students to a variety of creative directing processes
To expose students to interpreting texts with performance and image in mind
To improve on principles of visual narrative, complex performance and bold creativity
To familiarise students with filmmaking tools and techniques
To give students an understanding of the complex manner in which technical components and performance come together to tell a story
To develop independence in creative practice (you will not have as much oversight as in previous classes; bridging the gap to a self-led filmmaker)
To establish core principles of the discipline required for ongoing, personally meaningful, filmmaking practice beyond the achievement of a single short project

Class limits for 2019

Enrolment is limited to 18 students, based on eligibility for admission to the PG programme in Screen Production and the qualitative evaluation of the portfolio submitted.

Availability 2019

Semester 2

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s) Jake Mahaffy

Assessment

Points

SCREEN 712: 30 points

Prerequisites

SCREEN 701

Restrictions

FTVMS 752, SCREEN 703