DIRECTION TECHNIQUES

Paper Code: 
BMA 312
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable the students to:

  1. Build the direction ability to analyze a scripted scene or sequence, develop a unique vision derived from thorough text analysis.
  2. Communicate his or her vision effectively to an audience through carefully designed camera movement and choreographed actor staging.

 

Course Outcomes (COs):

Course Outcomes

 (at course level)

 

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

 
 

The students will:

  1. Link and correlate direction techniques and directors responsibilities.
  2. Articulate the shooting ratio and subject reference position for shooting.
  3. Relate Objective/subjective shooting and Line of action.
  4. Film various shots based on rules.
  5. Compose and write scripts according to the genre and theme.

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, reading assignments, Group activities, Teaching using advanced video tools, Film screening.

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks.

 

Assessment Strategies

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

 

 

 

 

 

9.00

Introduction to direction and director, Responsibilities & of the director in shooting a movie. How do we see- the line

 

9.00

Objective & subjective shooting, Line of action, 180-degree rule planning layouts and props. The mood of a particular scene.

 

 

9.00

Introduction to Shot, types of shot, Elements of a shot- Motivation, Information, composition, sound, Camera Angle, Continuity

 

 

9.00

Introduction to Shot, types of shot, Elements of a shot- Motivation, Information, composition, sound, Camera Angle, Continuity

 

 

9.00

Overlapping action and shooting ratio, .subject reference position for shooting- Headroom, Nose room, and Foot room. Being the CEO at the set. Bringing out the ideas into implementation from the creative crew.

 

ESSENTIAL READINGS: 
  • Roy Thompson “Grammar of the shot” Focal Press, 1998.
  • Steven d. Katz, “Film Directing- Shot by Shot visualizing from concept to screen” Michael Wiese Productions, 1991.
  • Lafe Locke, “Film Animation Techniques: A Beginners Guide and Handbook”, Better way Books, 1992.

 

REFERENCES: 

SUGGESTED REFERENCE BOOKS: 

  • Tony White, “The Animator's Workbook: Step-By-Step Techniques of Drawn Animation”, Watson-Guptill; Reprint edition, 1988.
  • Francis Glebas, “Directing the Story: Professional Storytelling and Storyboarding Techniques for Live Action and Animation”, Focal Press, 2008.
  • Kit Laybourne and John Canemaker, “The Animation Book: A Complete Guide to Animated Filmmaking--From Flip-Books to Sound Cartoons to 3- D Animation”, Three Rivers Press; 2nd Revised edition edition, 1998.

 

E-RESOURCES:

  • https://filmmakermagazine.com/

REFERENCE JOURNALS:

  • https://www.cmstudies.org/page/resource_journals_AF

 

Academic Year: 
2023-24
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