Pre-Production: Senior Capstone B

Catalog description

This course is a pre-production workshop for narrative and documentary short films. Students will follow a story development process from concept to final shooting script for narrative projects or outline and shooting schedule for documentary works. They will apply group feedback and rewrite multiple drafts while devising their filmmaking vision. Students will learn to create previsualization materials, prepare casting sessions, build schedules, budget and explore funding opportunities. The pre-production workshop will result in a blueprint for filming planned projects at a future date. This course is open to all FTVP majors to develop short films and learn the tools of the pre-production stage of filmmaking. FTVP 3510 is also a prerequisite for FTVP 4210 (Senior Capstone B). Students should complete the course to prepare for their Capstone short film. Prerequisite : SCPT 3300.