Thesis Seminar I

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By the time you arrive to your final year, you will be expected to have chosen a particular emphasis in which we will spend the rest of the year honing. A production team will be created and each student will serve in the several roles. A short script will be created, and pre-production will ensue. Throughout the semester, you will be creating either a documentary or a narrative film for submission to various festivals in order to making it your calling card. Here you will deal with pre-production, and production while preparing for post-production to be completed next semester. Emphasis will be given to refining cinematic language, storytelling, how to prepare a shooting script, create storyboard, scout locations, cast talent, rehearse, block and direct actors and crew in a dramatic film or a documentary short.Once pre-production is completed (securing locations, actors, equipment, production schedule) you will enter the production phase. At the end of the semester you will be evaluated by a jury of faculty. During presentation to the jury, you are expected to present evidence of how your,including paper work like director's statement/vision, a cinematographer's visual treatment, production design colorpallets, shot list, script continuity daily reports, 1st AD production schedule, day out of days, and producer's breakdown.