Course Details

Filmmaking Eight-Week Intensive: Color--Sync Sound

 

FLMM1-CE9523 / $5,995
SPRING 2012
Continuing Education: Film, Video and Broadcasting

Designed for those with some film production experience, this eight-week advanced intensive course provides a solid next step for honing skills. Learn the fundamentals of creating professional-quality narrative films in lectures and demonstrations that cover dialogue, advanced lighting techniques, cinematography, sync-sound production, sound mixing, and post-production. Gain hands-on experience in pre-production, production, and post-production. Using a script developed during the first four weeks, and working with a production crew of fellow students, complete a short film, shot in color and synchronized sound, that can be submitted to festivals or competitions.

Students can enroll in four, eight, or the full 12 weeks of this program. Upon completion of the Eight- or 12-week Intensive, students receive a Certificate in Filmmaking.

Weeks One Through Four: 16mm B/W-MOS February 13 - March 9, 2012 Techniques, technology, and craft of film and DV production. Language of film. Narrative techniques and the art of editing. Historical approaches to staging/blocking and directorial preparation. Cinematography. Three-point lighting and lighting ratio. Light meters and metering techniques. Collaboration on group/team projects. Film editing and post-production. Professional conventions and practices. Complete filmmaking projects.

Weeks Five Through 12: Color and Sync Sound March 19 - May 11, 2012 Visual storytelling. The camera as an artistic tool. Advanced lighting techniques. Color negative film stocks and characteristics. Recording sync sound with Fostex field recorders. Synching dailies and editing with Final Cut Pro. Professional sound mix demo. Scheduling and budgeting. Getting into the business. Film festival preparation. Individual/faculty mentoring.

FACULTY

Joanna Beckson, actor and director for film, TV, and off-Broadway
Mark Raker, feature films, commercials, music videos, and documentaries
John Hart, author, Art of the Storyboard, 50 Portrait Lighting Techniques, and others
Gary Gasgarth, director, editor, and writer of feature films, TV commercials, documentaries, and music videos

Prerequisites: Techniques and Technology/FLMM1-CE9220, Filmmaking I/FLMM1-CE9510, and Editing I: Final Cut Pro/EDTG1-CE9225, or Filmmaking Four-Week Intensive/FLMM1-CE9066.

Tuition covers equipment, allotted 16 mm color negative raw stock, laboratory processing, and film-to-tape transfers.

This course is also scheduled for:

SUMMER 2012

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Related Subject Areas: Film Production, Summer Intensives, Intensives

 

 

 

Section 1

 

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9:00am-5:00pm
March 19 - May 11

PLEASE DISREGARD MULTIPLE DATES, THIS IS DUE TO ROOM/COMPUTER LAB ASSIGNMENTS. THE COURSE MEETS FROM 03/19/2012-05/11/2012. Additional hours required outside of class time to be arranged.

40 Sessions

Location: Woolworth Bldg, 15 Barclay St.