Course overview
This course aims to broaden and deepen student knowledge of cinematic storytelling, contemporary film development and pre-production processes in the context of key creative, social, political and industry drivers. This course consolidates students' theory, knowledge and practice of previous film and television production courses and integrates these skills to generate, evaluate, pitch and develop a conceptually, technically and creatively strong cinematic story for a professional-level film or television production.
- Developing and Visualising a Story
- Skills Development
- Pilot Preparations
Course learning outcomes
- Evaluate the impact of key creative, ethical, social, political and industry drivers on contemporary cinematic outputs
- Apply a range of creative tools to generate a narrative cinematic idea, informed by insights gained from analysis
- Employ advanced storytelling knowhow to develop this cinematic idea into an industry-standard screenplay
- Create and articulate a cinematic vision and marketing strategy for this film in the form of an industry-standard pitch or pilot production.
- Apply individual specialist film production and storytelling strategies and techniques to develop this cinematic vision into a production-ready project.
Availability
Class details
Magill
Group 1
Class number 27274
Section LE01
Size 50
Available 34
Class number 27275
Section SE02
Size 25
Available 10
Class number 27276
Section SE01
Size 25
Available 24
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