| Laboratory of filmmaking
(objectives)
Part 1 - The film direction
- What is the direction? Tasks and characteristics of the film director
- Film’s setting and its lead characters
- The director as a spectator. The ability to look and to analyze the film
- Visualization. Translating a script into images
- The importance of teamwork. The crew
Part 2 - The shot
- Picture painting
- Major movie formats (1.37, 1:1.85, 2.35:1, 2P)
- Scale of the screens and frames
- Point of view, center of attention and Focus
Part -3 – Movie’s basics elements
- Scenic space.
- Film space
- Graphics Codes (captions, subtitles, written and titles)
- Sound Codes (noises, voices, sounds - and diegetic extra diegetic - voice and voice over off)
- Codes of syntactic or editing (editing inside the framework, continuity / discontinuity, proximity, transition, contrast) - the transparent editing.
- Use of the soundtrack. Original music and non-original music
- Field, home run and reverse
- Gaze line and passing over the field
- Passing over of the field
- Objective and Subjective shots
- Plan sequence and the point of view
- Against Angle, camera movement, lenses, depth of field, line of gaze and visual continuity) - the space system at 180 ° - axis attack
- Introduction to the editing: montage and decoupage
-The Master method: what are the best film cameras?
- Scene Masters, shooting coverage, camera angles and turnaround
- Shooting order and shooting list
- Actor’s position, optical and focal
- Shot duration
- Camera movements - Technical Considerations, narrative and emotional meanings
- Vertical and horizontal shot
- The track
- Optical zoom or tracking shot
- Dolly and crane
- Hand-held camera and the steady-cam
- Luma and crane
- Sky-cam, camera-car and aerial photograph
- Lockdown and sequence plan. Finding a the perfect directing balance
- "Bring home the movie." The relationship with the production and contractual obligations
- Shooting ratio. How to achieve the right frame for each shot
Part 4: practical and theoretical Depth
- The director and film writing: brainstorming, story concept, subject, cues, treatment, storyboards and decoupage
- Characters: peculiar and distinctive elements of personality, relationship between the story and the characters - archetypes and stereotypes
- The subject: original or literature adaptation?
- The Process: identification of a structure and division into three acts
- Dialogues: the need for realism and adherence to reality
- Formatting and styles. Screenplay (Italian, American, French style)
- Time horizon – flash back - flash forward
- Fiction and Documentary. Directing approach, specificity, and differences
- The complexity of the audiovisual sector. Video clip, advertising, 3D animation, documentary and reportage, video art and installations
Part 5 - From Script to the set
- Working with the actor. Relationship between filmmaker and actor and acting styles
- Casting of actors and research
- Dialogues and likelihood. The reading aloud of the script and director-actor collaboration in the preparation of the film.
- The vocabulary and the rites of the set. Introduction to key terms and film vocabulary
- "Silence! Rolling, Action." The procedures and rites of the set
- Comparison between the comparative technical terms used in the Italian and American cinema
- Short movie. Language, style and narrative structure in the universe of "short" movies
- Major differences between long and short narrative
- Different durations (The Short, and even shorter ones). The narrative importance of the synthetic construction of the frame. Expressive
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