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CORE COURSES -
2ND SEMESTER
CINEMATOGRAPHY 2
This course explores the creative depths of cinematography. The
latent image is always at the service of the story and an approach
must be developed. The careful choices a cinematographer makes
with respect to composition, color, light and texture affect the
overall look and mood of the film. Students explore the impact
of the visual language of film and related topics such as design
principles and forces of visual organization. The affects of scene
direction and lines of action on the editing process are explored
Students learn cinematic composition, the rule of thirds, spacial
relationships and proper framing. In being able to manipulate the
frame students learn advanced techniques for calculating focus,
determining depth of field, angle of view, and perspective.
Lighting is as much an art as it is a science.
This course covers
both. Students learn how lighting affects the tone, mood and texture
of a film as well as lighting as a storytelling device and its
impact on space, subtext, symbolism and emotional context of a
scene. Students are taught to develop a pictorial lighting style
that best serves the script then to design a technical lighting
schematic in order achieve the desired effect. Multiple strategies
to lighting a scene are covered. From these approaches students
can develop a realistic lighting plan for a film.
PRODUCTION LAB 2
Once again students are brought into a film set to better refine their production
skills. In this course students produce a short film project in-class. Using
a pre-designed script, sets, and cast students focus their attention on the finer
details of production workflows as they pertain to camera operation, focus,
exposure, slating, lighting placement, color, miking, audio mixing, and continuity.
Students rotate every two weeks through key departments on the production
portion of this courses.
Students are also introduced to the Hi-definition
format as this project is shot in parallel fashion with 16mm thereby giving
students a true comparison of formats. During the production both camera
and lighting instructors take time for lectures on technical information or processes
related to the production at hand.
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