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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







