Production Development - Producing Syllabus for 2023-2024
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Course

FLMC-2336-001 Production Development - Producing

Prerequisites

Course Description

In-depth study of the sequential steps of supervision in all phases of film or video production and distribution, including resource acquisition and allocation.

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Hours

(3 sem hrs; 2 lec, 3 lab)

Class Type

Hybrid

Syllabus Information

Textbooks

Film Directing: Shot by Shot by Steve D. Katz

Supplies

Students will be required to use a camera for various projects. They will also need access to a computer as well as an external hard drive of some sort to store filmed footage.

Student Performance

Students will understand how to create a story structure, script, and production plan and execute said plan for filming a video project.

Students learn how to safely and properly work with professional and pro-sumer cameras, audio equipment, and lighting gear.

Students will learn the creative and technical process of editing with professional software, including properly getting media in, working with it, and outputting in the right formats for various venues.

Even for those not going into the film/television fields, many types of jobs at times require creating or modifying some sort of audiovisual media – here students get acquainted with the full range of skills needed to do this. Including, but not limited to, writing client proposals, preparing storyboards, and shot lists.

Those with prior experience in filmmaking (e.g., from high school or self-taught) will deepen their knowledge base, fill in the gaps, and improve their creative abilities and technical craft. Those without any prior training will obtain the tools they need to take an audiovisual project from start to finish.

All students will come out with multiple completed works of their own across a wide variety of content mediums, and or genres. Students will also work on projects in group.

Regardless of major or prior background, students explore their own creative impulses with projects built around their individual concerns, artistic voice, and feelings.

Students Rights and Responsibilities

Student Rights and Responsibilities

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Expected Student Behavior

- You are strongly encouraged to assist and cooperate on one another's projects. However, all you course work in this class must be your original work and must be shot by yourself. Plagiarism, borrowing a story idea or storyboards from somebody else, and hiring a director or cinematographer for your projects is strictly prohibited. Please note that during class we might help each other come up with a story idea or find ways to enhance it, but work of writing/filming/executing the idea must come from each student.

- Always submit your papers, treatments, and projects on time to get full grade consideration and to be screened in class.

- If you miss class, you are still responsible to submit work that is due. All course work turned in after the due date will be downgraded 1 full letter grade/ after 1 week you will receive 0 credit. Please discuss in advance of your absence if at all possible.

- Assume that the course material is new to all students. Accordingly, I expect most students to do better at the end of the course than at the beginning.

- To help you improve as a shooter, designer, and overall craft creator, I will make "critical" comments on your work. These comments should not be taken personally; they are indications of areas on which you need to work. It is your responsibility as a student to ask questions when they arise, or if there are areas that you know you may need help with do not hesitate to ask.

- Each student should keep a dedicated notebook for this course. The notes and work you do during this course will allow you to take this knowledge and implicate it in real world situations and jobs. Take this knowledge and use it.

- Be on time. This field and career path is pressed for time, and time is money. Class starts promplty at the designated time, unless told otherwise by the instructor, and if there are videos to be shown they should be exported and ready to play when class begins.

- Please contact me if you need help or have any questions.

Grading Criteria

Grading:

  • Class Participation: 20%
  • Story Board & Script Writing Assignment: 10%
  • Final Exam: 10%
  • Video Project 1: 30%
  • Video Project 2: 30%

Attendance

Students are expected to participate actively in class discussions and activities. This includes coming to class prepared, asking and answering questions, and sharing their own ideas and observations.

  • Students are allowed to miss one class without penalty. Any additional missed classes will result in a deduction of 5% from the student's final grade.
  • Late Work: Late work will not be accepted without prior approval from the instructor.

Calendar

Schedule:

Week 1: Introduction to Production Theory & Aesthetics

Week 2: Writing and Developing Film Scripts

Week 3: Directing Interviews and Actors

Week 4: Producing and Planning

Week 5: Cinematography & Lighting

Week 6: Video & Sound Editing

Week 7: Working on Short film Project

Week 8: Short film Project Screening & Final Exam

Additional Information

Students will work to produce a short film scene as well as another body of work to be approved by the professor over the course of the semester. The film or scene should be no more than 10 minutes long and should demonstrate the students' understanding of the steps needed in producing a film project.

Syllabus Created on:

10/26/23 11:51 AM

Last Edited on:

10/26/23 12:17 PM