UNIT I
Definition of 'Film Direction', role and responsibilities
of a Film Director. Director's Co-ordination with his
crew-members.
UNIT
II
Film as the Director's medium of expression - Its evolution
as an Art-form from D.W. Griffith, Eisenstein Vittorio-de-Sica
to Hitch cock, Satyajith Ray and contemporary Indian
directors.
UNIT
III
Director and Screen-play - choice of subject, story
discussion - visual - treatment - Preparation of shooting
- script.
UNIT
IV
Director and Camera - concept of Mise-en-scene. Directorial
applicaiton of different types of camera angles, movements
and shots, Imaginary line principle - filming techniques
- master-scene technique, Break-down technique.
UNIT
V
Director and Editing - techniques of editing - cut-in,
cut-away, match-cut, parallel editing - PACE, RHYTHM,
TEMPO in Editing - use of transitional devices like
dissolves and wipes, various stages of editing, dubbing,
B.G.M. Recording, sound effects recording and mixing.
UNIT
VI
Director and Artistes - different methods of handling
Artistes and Non-Actors, Director's Intepretation of
characters, situation, mood, dialogue - delivery and
action.
UNIT
VII
Introduction to the Art of Writing short story, novel,
stage play and T.V. Play, adaptation of the above forms
to film form.
UNIT
VIII
Structure of a screen-play - theme or premise - plot
and sub-plot - beginning, middle and end - Exposition,
Conflict, Crisis, Climax and Resolution.
UNIT
IX
Character, three dimensions of character - sociology,
physiology and psychology. Pivotal character, Antagonist,
Protagonist, Archestration of characters and unity of
opposites.
UNIT
X
Writing of screen-play - synopsis, treatment, step-out-line,
treatment, the master-scene script, functions of dialogue,
the shooting script, the story-board methods, the post-shooting
script.
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