DIRECTION TECHNIQUES (THEORY)

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

Course Objective: This course will enable the students to

Build the direction ability to analyze a scripted scene or sequence, develop a unique vision derived from thorough text analysis, and then 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

Students will:

CO81. Link and correlate direction techniques and directors responsibilities.

CO82. Articulate the shooting ratio and subject reference position for shooting.

CO83. Relate          Objective/subjective shooting and Line of action. 

CO84. Film various shots based on rules.

CO85. 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 out 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

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

Overlapping action and shooting ratio, .subject reference position for shooting- Headroom, Nose room, 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 (1 May 1992)

 

REFERENCES: 

SUGGESTED READINGS:

  • TONY WHITE, “THE ANIMATOR'S WORKBOOK: STEP-BY-STEP TECHNIQUES OF DRAWN ANIMATION”, WATSON-GUPTILL; REPRINT EDITION (1 SEPTEMBER 1988).
  • FRANCIS GLEBAS, “DIRECTING THE STORY: PROFESSIONAL STORYTELLING AND STORYBOARDING TECHNIQUES FOR LIVE ACTION AND ANIMATION”, FOCAL PRESS (15 OCTOBER 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 (22 December 1998)

JOURNALS:

E-RESOURCES:

  • https://filmmakermagazine.com/

 

Academic Year: 
2022-23
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