Courses

DIPLOMA IN DIRECTION

Direction deals with the art of communicating to the public. In effect it deals with the art of Film Making. Apart from teaching basic technical elements of film making, we, through this course offer vast and ‘in – depth ‘ know – how on Screenplay Writing( which includes types of narratives and styles of narration, from conventional plot structure to ‘freeky’ non – linear narrations) and Film Direction (which includes basic film grammar, methods of film making varying from Aesthetic films to Commercial ones, with a lot of practical exercises) taking variety of references from the cinema of the world. Though our institute is a simple and humble one, our coaching is “Sincere and Serious” keeping International Standards in mind. “From Artistic Ecstasy to Cinematic Excellence! Director Francis Ford Cupola (God Father Fame) told to Director George Lucas (Star Wars Fame) when the later was a Film Student.

“If you want to direct, you got to write”, we in our Direction Department tell our students:

“If you want to write, you got to read” Yes. Our objective is to make our students read a lot before attempting to write film scripts, and make them see a lot of world cinema before attempting direct a scene, sequence or a film. Starting with technical knowledge, Continuing with practical training and enriching with creativity, our aim is to make our students understand the language called CINEMA.

MODULE 1

• Introduction to Cinema – Media – Medium– development of media
• Cinematic Expressions - Terminology – intellectual perceptions – commercial possibilities
• History of cinema and development of cinema – digital invasion
• Film genre - setting – mood – deciding elements of film genre with reference to early Greek tragedy
• Concept – premise
• Construction of a script – 4c’s of screenplay
• Basic shot divisions and angles arrangements of elements in a shot
• PROJECT I – AFFM (Application of fundamentals in film making)

MODULE II

• Plot structure –plot point – plot device
• Conflict – types and varieties
• Scene - shot – sequence
• Cue – match cut
• PROJECT II – Directorial Practice – learning continuity – live recording – facing it’s challenges – valuing ambience sound

MODULE III

• Constructive editing – juxta position – soviet montage
• Rules of cutting – preferences in editing
• Parallel cutting – cross cutting – dynamic cutting – cutting in action
• Smash cut – jump cut
• Writing a original scene with multiple emotions
• PROJECT III – Scene Practice – Practicing the miniature version of a movie – experiencing dubbing , mixing and track posting

MODULE IV

• Styles of film making – narration – narrative – act structure – mono myth
• Non – linear narration
• Meta film
• Anthology film – romance clef
• Neo realism – new wave
• Realism – sur - realism – social sur- realism – dogme film
• Documentary – Expository – observatory – participatory – docu’s
• PROJECT IV – Documentary / Ad fim
• PROJECT V – Short Film

After this module, a student will be able to accommodate himself in film or media production as a Director.

DIPLOMA IN EDITING

Editing is an art of “Storytelling”’ and latterly referred as the “invisible art”. Editing Art is must for both print and Visual Medium. It is a part of the process of Film Making. It involves the selection and Combination of Shot into sequence to give perfect timing.

Editing is a backbone of Film. Film Editing is art, techniques and practice of assembling of footage. A Editor must creatively work with the layers of images, story, dialogue, music, pacing as well as the actors performances. Editor’s usually play a dynamic role in the film making. All aspects like Cinematographer, Art Director, Dance Master, fight master, Sound recordist etc..

MODULE I

• Introduction of Editing
• History of Editing
• Basic cuts & transitions
• PROJECT I - AFFM (Application of fundamentals in film making)

MODULE II

• Montages – cropping – scaling – positioning
• Syncing Audio
• 180 rules – cutting scene
• Various types of cuts
• PROJECT II – Directorial Practice – Song practice and pre-scoring

MODULE III

• Creating feel
• Multi layer Editing
• Multi clip Editing
• PROJECT III – Scene practice

MODULE IV

• Green Matte- blue matte removing
• Motion tracking – Manual effects
• Arranging on linear and non – linear
• PROJECT IV – AD film – song - documentary
• PROJECT V – Short film (DTS mixing)

After this module, a student will be able to accommodate himself in film or media production as a Editor.

FORMAT OF PRACTICAL CLASSES

PRACTICAL PROJECT

The completion of course in our Institution is evidently marked by the short film which will be making at the end of the course as the final project. To enable to make this students will be given the following practicals to gain sufficient practical knowledge in the art of film making thereafter.

1. Directorial Practice
2. Scene Practice
3. Song Practice
4. Documentary

DIRECTORIAL PRACTICE

In this practice, a Direction student is given training in writing a scene and dividing it into shots, learning the arrangements of elements in a frame followed by Editing and Dubbing to achieve a final Quickie film. The Cinematography students practice shooting the same in Digital movie cameras and Editing students practice editing the same through modern edit softwares(AVID/ FCP) and Sound students practice dubbing/ RR posting balancing and mixing of audio tracks through modern sound softwares (NUENDO/PROTOOLS).

To do this practical the students of all the departments are given proper training by the concerned departments throughout the month of December. To do these practicals themselves during the month of January, the students should have obtained clearance certificates failing to do so will make them unable to do the practical which will put him in a fatal minus point to pursue his course effectively.

SCENE PRACTICE

With the experience and knowledge gained by the above mentioned practicals, the student will make a SCENE with multiple emotions based on which his capacity as a script writer and director will be evaluated.

SONG PRACTICE

In this the student will picturise a film song on the lines of mainstream cinema and edit the same utilizing all the modern editing techniques.

NEWS SUMMARY

In this practice, the student will be asked to practice, how to present a news item in a cinematic way.

A Direction student is given training in writing a scene and dividing it into shots, learning the arrangements of elements in a frame followed by Editing and Dubbing to achieve a final Quickie film. The Cinematography students practice shooting the same in Digital movie cameras and Editing students practice editing the same through modern edit softwares(AVID/ FCP) and sound students practice dubbing/ RR posting balancing and mixing of audio tracks through modern sound softwares (NUENDO/PROTOOLS).

DIPLOMA FILM PROJECT

Each student will be a member of an unit and each unit will write the script, shoot it,edit and add sound and submit it as their project work for their Examination.