SCREEN 712

Advanced Drama Directing

Please note: this is archived course information from 2021 for SCREEN 712.

Description

An advanced course designed to teach skills in directing performance, blocking, visual narrative and production for Screen. Emphasis will be placed on linking aesthetics, content and intention. Students will act and direct in front of the class and workshop, write, direct and edit an original, five to seven-minute short film.

Building on SCREEN 701 you will take the screenplays you wrote last semester in SCREEN 700 to prepare visual and performance-based assignments that lead to producing and directing a final short film. An intensive first 6 weeks leads to a 4 week shooting block when students crew on each other’s projects, with the remainder spent in editing and post-production.

Course Objectives

To introduce students to a variety of creative directing processes
To expose students to interpreting texts with performance and image in mind
To improve on principles of visual narrative, complex performance and bold creativity
To familiarise students with filmmaking tools and techniques
To give students an understanding of the complex manner in which technical components and performance come together to tell a story
To develop independence in creative practice (you will not have as much oversight as in previous classes; bridging the gap from student to a self-led filmmaker)
To establish core principles of the discipline required for ongoing, personally meaningful, filmmaking practice beyond the achievement of a single short project

Class limits for 2020: Enrolment is limited to 18 students, with selection based on eligibility for admission to a postgraduate programme in Screen Production and the qualitative evaluation of Portfolio submitted. Prerequisite Screen 700 and Screen 701 or permission of instructor.

Availability 2021

Semester 2

Lecturer(s)

Lecturer(s) Jake Mahaffy

Reading/Texts

Points

SCREEN 712: 30 points