Pre-production and proper planning are essential to successful filmmaking. Lectures and seminars will use real production case studies to cover business plans, soliciting investors, budgeting, scheduling, casting, script breakdowns, hiring crew, obtaining releases and permits, securing locations, coordinating post-production, festivals and distribution. These topics are the most critical issues every filmmaker should address before beginning a production.
5 Weeks: June 25 - July 30 (no class July 2)
Mondays, 6:30 - 9:30 PM
Tuition: $245/230 Members
Limit: 12 students
Instructor: Ed Koziarski and Junko Kajino
This course covers the fundamentals of writing a feature-length screenplay and is designed for beginning students and writers. Through screenings, outside readings, discussion, and critiques, students will engage with such issues as character development, dialogue, structure, narrative progression, and what to do with a finished screenplay. Students should use this course as a springboard towards generating the first draft of a feature-length screenplay.
Summer 2012
8 weeks, July 9 - Aug. 27
Mondays, 6:30 - 9:30 PM
Tuition: $395/380 members
Limit: 10 students
Instructor: Mary Novak
This class will build on the first Directing class by examining the role of the camera. Topics will include cinematic techniques, continuity, shot selection, mise en scene, and on camera performance. The director's relationship with producers and crew members will also be examined. Working with actors and original scripts, students will create a short dramatic project to shoot and edit outside of class. Directing I is recommended as a prerequisite, but not required.
8 Weeks: July 12 - Aug. 30
Thursdays 6:30 - 9:30 PM
Tuition: $485/470 Members
Class Size: 12
Instructor: Jack Newell
There seems to be no better time than the present to become a documentary filmmaker. Discover the techniques and styles best suited for your documentary idea and then shape that idea into a work that can be funded and completed. This course will give you an overview of documentary forms and teach you how to research your project, write a treatment and synopsis, target interested funders, write a proposal, make a budget and prepare a shooting schedule. Students are encouraged to come to class with a specific documentary idea they wish to develop.
Summer 2012
6 weeks, July 12 - Aug. 16
Thursdays, 6:30 - 9:30 PM
Tuition: $325/310 members
Limit: 14 students
Instructor: Beth Sternheimer and Ian Miller
