The Cinema:
The first ever film to be made was a documentary in 1894 of workers walking out of a factory. Alfred Hitchcock, a master of the cinema made over 70 feature length films in his time, the last being over 30 years ago.
Where have you come from?
What kind of films would you like to make?
What is Cinema for?
It could be to document
entertain
provoke thought
How do you make a film?
Cinematography
Editing
Mise-en-scene
Music/soundtrack
Lighting
Cinema
Budget
Audience
Production Process
Industry
Theory
The course you are doing is very hands on
- there will be workshops
- shooting
- editing
You could become a Tarantino, a great imitator.
Group Work
3-4 people - different roles every time
Books
You must read the reading list
- Cook, The Cinema Book (2nd edition) London BFI, 1999: pp. 45-47
- Elsey, In Short: a Guide to Short Film-making in the Digital Age London: BFI, 2002.
- Grahame, 'The Production Process' (chapter 7) in David Lusted (ed) 'The media Studies Book' London: Routledge, 1991.
- Wayne, Mike 'Theory and Practice' and 'Between Art and Cinema'
- in 'Theorising Video Practice' london: Lawrence & Wishart, 1997. (chapters 1 and 2)
- Winston 'Necesseties and Constraints: a Pattern of Technological Change' in Robert Stam and Toby Miller (eds) Film and Theory: an Anthology: pp. 102-110. [Also avaliable in Winston, Brian 'Technologies of Seeing: Photography, Cinematography and Television' London: BFI, 1996]
You could purchase
- Film Art
- The Cinema Book
- Theorising Video Practice
They're very important!
We will learn the Conventions of cinema, i.e. a pop song or a blockbuster movie
The first assessment is marked on how you assess your own work.
The second assessment is your storyboard and how well you do that
- 60% is your creative input
- 40% is how you assess your own work / theoretical components.
Conventions
Conventions such as stories, genres, continuity editing (1 type of editing.)
We are going to deconstruct all of these elements and criticize them.
Are you represented in the media world enough? Do you think you ought to be?
What different ways are there of shooting picture and sound?
You must use your critical thinking!
3 comments:
Hello Lol, It sounds a very creative course--just up your street!
hyeah i think it is - was that your really intellegent comment? if it was, please leave some sort of opinion on the matter you know, or something to make it look as if this place is a place of phylisophical discussion and extreme intellegence.
cheers Choz Meister von Schlierscher
Intelligence, you mean....
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