• COURSE OUTLINE

    WEEK 1

    -- The Role of the Director

    WEEK 4

    -- Visual storytelling & Directorial choices

    WEEK 5

    -- Manipulation of Time

    WEEK 6

    -- Screen direction & Eyelines

    * Weekend assignment: Shooting a sequence

    WEEK 7

    -- Debrief Exercise

    -- Blocking & B/G action

    WEEK 9

    -- Introduction to acting

    -- Casting and the audition

    WEEK 10

    -- Director's Preparations & Working with the Creative Teams

    -- Working with Actors Demonstration

    WEEK 11

    -- Directors Meetings

    WEEK 14

    -- Viewing Rough Cuts of Graduation Films

    WEEK 15

    -- Critique Graduation Films

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    RECOMMENDED TEXT:

    -- Michael Rabiger, Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics, Third Edition, Focal Press, 2003

    -- Judith Weston, Directing Actors, Creating Memorable Performances for Film and Television, Michael Wiese Productions, 1996

    -- Mark Travis, Directing Feature Films, Michael Wiese Productions, 2002

    -- Sidney Lumet, Making Movies, Alfred Knopf, 1995

    -- David Mamet, On Directing Film, Penguin Books, 1992

    -- Steven D. Katz, Film Directing, shot by shot, visualizing from concept to screen, Michael Wiese Productions, 1991

    -- Steven D. Katz, Film Directing, Cinematic Motion, 2nd Edition, Michael Wiese Productions, 2004

    -- Karel Reisz, Gavin Millar, The Technique of Film Editing, 2nd Edition, Focal Press, 2002