The field of film making is highly competitive and creative and has a lots of scope for employment too, especially in India which produces about 2000 films every year besides TV serials, video dramas, documentaries, news and variety of other programmes. If one possesses artistic and technical skills and at the same time an ability to express ideas, this is the most appropriate field to work in. The Filmmaking course will help students to learn video production and will help them to get a job in film, TV, Social media industry on junior positions in advertising, news media, businesses or government and in education as camera operators/assistants, video editors/asst. editor, sound recordists/recording assistants, production assistant among others. Once a student is able to grab the skills in operating the advanced video tools and related computer programmes, he/she can have a good grasp on creating fictional and factual audio-visual productions. The course teaches the students to design, create and produce stories by making the effective use of video production tools & techniques. It is interesting to note that video technology has become much cheaper and affordable. A smart phone has all the gadgets to make a feature film.

Duration: 5 months

       Course Objectives:  By the end of the course, the participants will be able to:

1. Understand the scope and prospects of filmmaking and video production.
2. Learn to operate a video camera.
3. Capture well composed video images.
4. Capture great sound.
5. Edit video and audio into a compelling story

 

Unit-I: Understanding the Audio-Visual Medium

• Forms of Expression

• Techniques

• Past & recent Developments

 

Unit-II: Production

 • Stages of Production: single camera technique

• Storyboarding

• Scriptwriting

Exercises/ Practicals

 

        Unit-III: Basic of video camera

 • Types of cameras and their features

• Specific use of various types of camera

• Working principle of a video camera

Exrecises / Practicals

 

Unit-IV: Basics of videography

• Basic shots and their composition

• Importance of cut away and cut in shots

• Various camera movements and angles

• Lighting

 

      Unit-V: Basics of Sound Recording

        • Quality of Sound

       • Microphones

       • Sound recording

       • Sound mixing

       • Sound Softwares

      • Sound Editing, Special effects

      • Exercises/Practicals

 

 Unit-VI: Basics of Video Editing

 • Editing - meaning and significance

 • On line and off line editing, Grammar of Editing

 • Linear and non-linear editing

 • Special effects

 • Time and Space in Editing

 •Editing Fiction and Non- fiction programmes

   Exercises /Practicals

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