IDFLM 4210 Thesis Seminar I
By the time you arrive to your final year, you will be expected to have
chosen a particular emphasis in which we will spend the rest of the
year honing. A production team will be created and each student will
serve in the several roles. A short script script will be created, and
pre-production will ensue. Throughout the semester, you will be
creating either a documentary or a narrative film for submission to
various festivals in order to making it your calling card. Here you
will deal with pre-production, and production while preparing for
post-production to be completed next semester. Emphasis will be given
to refining cinematic language, storytelling, how to prepare a
shooting script, create storyboard, scout locations, cast talent,
rehearse, block and direct actors and crew in a dramatic film or a
documentary short. Once pre-production is completed (securing locations, actors, equipment,
production schedule) you will enter the production phase. At the
end of the semester you will be evaluated by a jury of
faculty. During presentation to the jury, you are expected to present
evidence of how your, including paper work like director’s statement/
vision, a cinematographer’s visual treatment, production design color
pallets, shot list, script continuity daily reports, 1st AD production
schedule, day out of days, and producer’s breakdown.