Movie Making
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About This Course
This course introduces students to the basics of film analysis, cinematic formal elements, genre, and narrative structure and helps students develop the skills to recognize, analyze, describe and enjoy film as an art and entertainment form. Students will learn a wide range of elementary film production techniques and build a technical and aesthetic foundation structured around film grammar, story development, script writing, sound, and editing. Through practical exercises and guided projects, students will gain an understanding of shot composition, lighting, sound, and visual effects.
You'll learn to:
- Understand the fundamentals of movie making, including storytelling, scriptwriting, and storyboarding.
- Explore basic video production techniques, such as camera angles, lighting, and sound recording.
- Engage in hands-on activities to create short films or movie scenes using video editing software.
- Develop creative skills by crafting compelling narratives and experimenting with different visual and audio elements.
- Gain an understanding of the movie making process, from pre-production to post-production, and the importance of teamwork and collaboration.
Choose a Lesson Package
Fourteen hours of one on one private instruction or one complete course. Weekday or weekend appointments with a live instructor onsite at our facility. Once lessons begin, students meet routinely each week on set days and times for one or more hours per week consecutively until the course hours have been completed. Appointments are subject to availability.