Direction Techniques

Paper Code: 
24BMA312
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
  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: 

Course

 

Learning outcome

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course

  title

24BMA 312

 

Direction Techniques

(Theory)

The students will:

CO97. Link and correlate direction techniques and director’s responsibilities.

CO98. Articulate the shooting ratio and subject reference position for shooting.

CO99. Relate Objective/subjective shooting and Line of action.

CO100.Film various shots based on rules.

CO101.Compose and write scripts according to the genre and theme.

CO102.Contribute effectively in course- specific interaction

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
Unit I: 

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

9.00
Unit II: 

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

9.00
Unit III: 

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

9.00
Unit IV: 

Director’s take on script articulation and screenplay. Planning of the whole story. Duration of a particular scene. Division of the storyboard, Text analysis and articulation of ideas. Techniques of set composition, blocking and movement. Time management, staging, rehearsal schedules, scene work.

9.00
Unit V: 

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: 
SUGGESTED TEXT BOOKS:
  1. Roy Thompson “Grammar of the shot” Focal Press, 1998.
  2. Steven d. Katz, “Film Directing- Shot by Shot visualizing from concept to screen” Michael Wiese Productions, 1991.
  3. Lafe Locke, “Film Animation Techniques: A Beginners Guide and Handbook”, Better way Books, 1992.
REFERENCES: 
SUGGESTED REFERENCE BOOKS:
  1. Tony White, “The Animator's Workbook: Step-By-Step Techniques of Drawn Animation”, Watson-Guptill; Reprint edition, 1988.
  2. Francis Glebas, “Directing the Story: Professional Storytelling and Storyboarding Techniques for Live Action and Animation”, Focal Press, 2008.
  3. 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:
  1. https://filmmakermagazine.com/
 
REFERENCE JOURNALS:
  1. https://www.cmstudies.org/page/resource_journals_AF
Academic Year: 
2024-25
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