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Course Description

This course is an opportunity for the serious beginner to learn the fundamentals of filmmaking. Students respond to conceptual and aesthetic challenges posed broadly as problems of time, movement, space, place, and point of view that students solve in both short exercises and concentrated study. Weekly assignments, discussions, exercises, lectures, and critiques further students’ understanding of filmmaking Consideration is given to the historical and emergent potentials of filmmaking as students become familiar with diverse modes of cinematic expression and better equipped to discover and realize their own creative voices. A range of examples are discussed and understood as responses to technical limits and possibilities as well as to social, cultural, economic, and political contexts. By the end of the course, students will have gained experience with cameras as well as sound, lighting, and editing tools that prepare them for more ambitious personal film projects at the next level of the digital production course sequence.

Learner Outcomes

  • Ability to recognize and describe some social, cultural, and aesthetic contexts for their own creative choices.
  • Fundamental theoretical and practical understanding of short-form filmmaking from camera mechanics to principles of exposure, lighting, and audio recording.
  • Familiarity with operation of digital camera, tripod, and digital audio recorder.
  • Basic working knowledge of NLE and editing principles using Adobe Premiere Pro.
  • Working fluency in the communicative language of cinema and expressive techniques including shot structure, composition, continuity and coverage.
  • Appreciation for modes of filmic expression beyond the conventional narrative.
  • Refined understanding of one’s own personal aesthetics and voice.
  • Prepared to tackle more ambitious film projects at the next level of production courses. 

Additional Information

  • Greater fluency in the communicative language of cinema and expressive techniques including shot structure, composition, continuity and coverage.
  • Appreciation for modes of filmic expression beyond the conventional narrative.
  • Refined understanding of one’s own personal aesthetics and voice.
  • On-set experience crewing on one another’s productions.
  • Preparation for more ambitious film projects.

Applies Towards the Following Certificates

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Section Title
Film 1: An Introduction
Type
Lecture
Days
T
Time
7:00PM to 9:40PM
Dates
Aug 27, 2024 to Dec 03, 2024
Schedule and Location
Contact Hours
40.0
Delivery Options
Course Fee(s)
CE Tuition non-credit $2,000.00
Faculty/Staff Waiver non-credit $2,000.00
Drop Request Deadline
Sep 30, 2024
Transfer Request Deadline
Aug 27, 2024
Instructors
Section Title
Film 1: An Introduction
Type
Lecture
Days
Th
Time
4:00PM to 6:40PM
Dates
Aug 29, 2024 to Dec 05, 2024
Schedule and Location
Contact Hours
37.3
Delivery Options
Course Fee(s)
CE Tuition non-credit $2,000.00
Faculty/Staff Waiver non-credit $2,000.00
Drop Request Deadline
Oct 02, 2024
Transfer Request Deadline
Aug 29, 2024
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