Course Details

Filmmaking Eight-Week Intensive: Color--Sync Sound

 

X34.9523 / $5,995
FALL 2009
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. Upon completion of the Eight- or 12-week Intensive, students receive a Certificate in Filmmaking.

Weeks One Through Four: 16mm B/W-MOS September 21-October 16, 2009 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 October 19-December 15, 2009 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.

FACULTY

Gary Gasgarth, director, editor, and writer of feature films, TV commercials, documentaries, and music videos; winner of Cine Golden Eagle and Chris Awards.
Marc DeRossi, producer, director, and editor of dramatic shorts, industrials, and commercials; winner Editing for Feature Film, VI Rio International Film Festival, Cine Golden Eagle.
Mark Raker, cinematographer for film, TV, and commercials; An Unreasonable Man, Sundance 2006 selection; TNT's Moment of Impact, Emmy award winner; Home and Bunker for the History Channel; commercial clients include Saturn, Subaru, and Johnson & Johnson.
Joanna Beckson, actor and directing coach, former students include Ray Romano, Dave Chappelle, and director Darren Aronofsky.
Mick Casale, award-winning writer of works for the stage, screen, and comic strips. Script doctor, dramaturge, consultant on hundreds of scripts for short and feature films, television shows, theatrical plays, and nightclub acts.Internationally known lecturer on dramatic writing.

 

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 also scheduled for:

SPRING 2010

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Related Subject Areas: Film Production

 

Website registration is not available for this course. Please call (212) 998-7150 for more information on how to enroll.

 

 

Section 1

 

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9:00am-5:00pm
October 19 - December 15

NO CLASS NOV. 26 & 27

 

40 Sessions

Location: Washington Square