Course Details

Filmmaking Eight-Week Intensive: Color--Sync Sound

 

X34.9523 / $5,495
FALL 2008
Continuing Education: Film, Video and Broadcasting

 

Designed for students with some film production experience, this eight-week advanced intensive course provides a solid next step for honing your 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 that you develop 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 you are encouraged to submit to festivals or competitions.

Students can enroll in four, eight, or the full 12 weeks of this program, which offers the best value and the most complete preparation for a career in film.

WEEKS 1-4: 16MM B/W-MOS Filmmaking Four-Week Intensive: September 22–October 17	WEEKS 5-12: COLOR AND SYNC SOUND Filmmaking Eight-Week Intensive October 20–December 18
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 process	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, colorist session, and lab tour. Scheduling and budgeting. Getting into the business. Film festival preparation. Individual/faculty mentoring.
WEEKS 1-12: B/W-MOS AND COLOR-SYNC SOUND Filmmaking 12-Week Intensive September 22–December 18

 

Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: Filmmaking Four-Week Intensive: 16mm/X34.9066 or equivalent experience.

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

For those applying with equivalent experience, please contact an advisor at 212-998-7171 to submit your work for review.

This course is applicable toward:

• Certificate in Filmmaking

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Related Subject Areas: Film Production

 

Website registration is not available for this course. Please call (212) 998-7171 for more information on how to enroll.

 

 

Section 1

 

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9:00am-5:00pm
October 20 - December 17

NO CLASS NOV. 26, 27 & 28

 

40 Sessions

Instructor: Gary Gasgarth   Mark Raker   Marc DeRossi   Michael Casale   Joanna Beckson  
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