Advanced Production Design for Film & Television

Catalog description

The Mission of the course is to give film students a conceptual and practical framework for designing an intermediate or advanced undergraduate film production at NYU. The course will use as its text the intermediate level Undergraduate Film script – God is Busy Somewhere Else by Edoardo Vitaletti, or directors can use the course to develop a design for their own scripts, characters and locations. Or this class can also be used as a forum to match current intermediate or advanced directors, who have scripts in pre-production, with students who are interested in designing a current film. Designers could choose a script they may want to work on and present their thoughts to directors during the course of the semester. In effect, directors and designers can audition each other to see if their ideas are workable and compatible, or even start pre-production for the design of the film. The course will use as visual reference the “realistic-present day- fiction” films from the BBC list of Greatest Films of the 21st Century.