Second Semester Syllabus - M.Sc. Film Making
II SEMESTER
FS 201: Film Direction
Objective: To train students to be director and make them aware of role, responsibilities of director in film making. 52 Hours
Unit-1
Director’s basic responsibilities and personal traits, leadership, collaboration, vision, art, identity and competitiveness, Artistic process, working within small budget and
limitations. (11 Hours)
Unit-2
Role of the Film Director –reading and understanding an image, Moral, artistic, Technical and financial interlocking roles of various technicians and artistes in the making of a film, Film as the Director’s medium of expression, contribution of D.W.
Griffith and Eisenstein to the art of film. (11 Hours)
Unit-3
Story development and script: essential elements of drama, shaping story into drama, plot, time, structure, screen play rules, script analysis and development, authorship and aesthetics; cinematic storytelling, director’s point of view, visual design, sound design, performance design, director’s style. (10 Hours) Unit-4
Director’s screen grammar, film language, frame and the shot, the camera movements, language of the edit, screen direction, essentials of research and practice
for directors. (10 Hours)
Unit-5
Director at different production stages: Preproduction; exploring the script, casting, acting fundamentals, directing the actor, rehearsals, planning and visual design.
Production; developing production crew, production technology, director’s rule during shooting, directing on the set, monitoring continuity and progress. Post production; Knowing the footage, rough cut, getting fine cut, working with music,
sound mix, finishing touches. (10 Hours)
Suggested reading:
1. Michael Rabiger, Mick Hurbis-Cherrier, Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics, Focal press, 2017.
2. David Mamet, On Directing Film, Penguin publication. 1992.
3. Steven Ascher, Edward Pincus, The Filmmaker's Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for digital age, Penguin publication, 2012.
4. Sergei Eisenstein, Problems of Film Direction, University Press of the Pacific, 2004.
5. David K. Irving, Fundamentals of Film Directing, McFarland & Company, 2010.
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FS 202: Film Production Design
Objectives: To teach the students about production design and the collaborative relationship
between various departments of cinema. 52 Hours
Unit-I
Overview of film production design: Functions of film production manager. Working with assistants. Production manager as an architect of director’s dream. Production management process. Stages of film production; Pre-production, Production Postproduction. (11 Hours)
Unit-II
Preparing for production; Script breakdown, Shooting schedule, Production manager’s job during pre-production. Techniques of managing low budget productions. Movie making
deals- Influencing factors which makes movie expensive. (11 Hours)
Unit-III
Location survey, Film commissions, Procedure of getting permission, Foreign shooting.
Setting the location on shooting schedule. (10 Hours)
Unit-IV
Cast and Crew; hiring procedures, crew duties, Actors, Agents, contracts, agreements and working permits, immigration laws, production forms (10 Hours)
Unit-V
Working with different unions, Actors and co-actors’ unions, Managing insurances, Film
festivals and markets, Film schools. (10 Hours)
Suggested Readings:
1. Jane Barnwell, Production Design for Screen Visual Storytelling in Film and Television, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2017.
2. Eve Light Honthaner. The Complete Film Production Handbook, Third Edition. 2001.
3. Steven Bernstein, Film Production. Focal Press, 1994.
4. Bastian Cleve, Film Production Management, Focal press, 2012.
5. C.S. Tashiro, C. S. Tashiro. Pretty Pictures Production Design and the History Film. University of Texas Press, 1998.
6. Jane Barnwell. Production Design for Screen Visual Storytelling in Film and Television. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2017.
7. Ian Christie. The Art of Film John Box and Production Design.2008.
FS 203: Film Editing
Objectives: To develop the knowledge and skill of Editing Techniques in Film Production.
52 Hours
Unit-I
History of film editing; the manipulation of editing, Lev Kuleshov’s experiment; the language of cinema; introduction to the editor as storyteller and understanding the narrative structure. Introduction to film editing –Necessity and principles of editing, The screen technique: Joining of shots and scenes, the imaginary line. (11 Hours) Unit-II
Video editing softwares, software interface, The Editing workflow- Basic movements and transitions, Effects control basics, Audio basics, Tilting- Styles and Templates. Principles of
Continuity Editing, basic scene construction, Shot- the basic unit of editing. (10 Hours) Unit-III
Concepts of film editing, Process of editing- Storage and folder management, Logging, First assembly, Rough cut, Final cut, Colour grading, inserting audio, Graphics, Titling etc and
exporting. (11 Hours)
Unit-IV
The cut and types of cut, Pace, time and rhythm of storytelling, Fiction and non-fiction
editing, Offline and online editing, Montage editing. (10 Hours)
Unit-V
Using sounds; Music and sound effects, controlling audio, effects and transitions, Matching audio with video, Chroma keying, Visual effects editing. (10 Hours)
Suggested Readings:
1. Karel Reisz, Gavin Miller, The Technique of Film Editing, 2017
2. Walter Murch, In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing, 1992
3. Ken Dancyger, The Technique of Film and Video Editing: History, Theory, and Practice, 2007
4. Mark Cousins, The Story of Film, 2012
5. Jaime fowler, Editing Digital Film: Integrating Final Cut Pro, Avid, and Media 100, 2012
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FS 204: Story, Scripting and Story Boarding
Objectives: to teach students the skills of script writing, structure of screenplay and
storyboard. 52 Hours
Unit-1
The Nature of Storytelling and Genres, Basic Terms and Structures, elements of story, Characters and Characterization, Themes, Motifs, Moods, The Mechanics of a Screenplay,
Visual Storytelling and Setting. (10 Hours)
Unit -2
Historical development of the storyboard, Visual Storyboards, Fundamentals of the Shot, difference between scenes and shots, visualizing scene in terms of framing, angles and movement, illustrate camera and character movement, dialogue, camera indication,
storyboard panels, live action and animation storyboards. (11 Hours) Unit -3
Screenwriting and script development, screenwriting and script development, writing dialogues, Shooting script, shot list, and overhead diagram, Camera and character movement, Psychological impact of camera angles, framing, and movement, Composition, shot
arrangement, light and composition. (11 Hours)
Unit-4
Composition, Basic rules of continuity, Perspective: one-point, two-point, and three-point perspective, bird’s-eye, worm’s-eye, high-angle, and low angle views, Combining shots, non- continuous shots: montage and jump cut, Drawing the Human Form, line of action in figure drawing, Drawing the figure in motion. (10 Hours)
Unit-5
Develop characters and location visually, Create one character sketch and thumbnails, write shooting script, create shot lists from selected movie, draw human figure; static and action(10 Hours)
Suggested readings:
1. William C Martell, The Secrets of Action Screenwriting, First strike Productions 2018 2. David Trottier, The Screenwriter's Bible, Silman-James Press, 2014.
3. J. T. Clark, The Bare, Bones Book of Screenwriting: The Definitive Beginner's Guide to Story, Format and Business, Kindle edition, 2009.
4. Paul Joseph Gulino, Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach, Continuum, 2004.
5. William Packard, The Art of Screenwriting: An A to Z Guide to Writing a Successful Screenplay, Da Capo Press, 2001.
6. Sergio Paez, Professional Storyboarding: Rules of Thumb, Focal Press, 2012.
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FS 205: Film Editing (Practical)
52 Hours
1. Cut: Types of cuts
2. Creating a scene
3. Basic movement
4. Applying transitions
5. Continuity editing
6. Expression of emotion through different shots
7. Colour grading
8. Inserting music, audio effects, music, dialogues
9. Audio and video synchronization
10. Setting pace and Time
11. Montage editing
12. Visual effects editing
(Note: Each student must do two exercises in each practical component and submit the same in class records for evaluation during practical evaluation)
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FS 206: Story, Scripting and Story boarding (Practical)
52 Hours
1. Writing story
2. Converting story to drama
3. Characterization
4. Writing dialogues
5. Drawing different characters, props, and location
6. Developing story board (manual and digital)
7. Screen play writing for different genres
8. Shooting script
(Note: Each student must do two exercises in each practical component and submit the same in class records for evaluation during practical evaluation)
FS 207: Ad Film Production (Project)
52 Hours
Each student is required to produce an ad film of about 1 minute duration during the 2nd semester under the supervision of a faculty of the department. The students have to present a proposal on the ad film production for the approval of department Council. The approved proposal must be executed in the prescribed time by the department.
FS 208: Legal aspects of Cinema
Objective: To provide students with an understanding of the laws and ethical issues in the
film making, distribution and exhibition 52 Hours
Unit-1
Features of Indian constitution, Fundamental rights and duties, Freedom of speech and expression and reasonable restrictions. (11 Hours)
Unit-2
Contempt of court act, IPC with reference to Defamation, Sedition and Obscenity. Program and Advertising Codes, Self- regulation guidelines and broadcast of Films. (10 Hours) Unit-3
Intellectual property rights; Theft of idea, story and script, Adaptation and remake rights,
Protection of title, lyrics, music and recordings. Producer’s rights on cinema. (10 Hours) Unit-4
Cinematograph act- Film Censorship, Brief History of Censorship in India, Karnataka cinemas (Regulation) act-1964, Karnataka entertainment tax act- 1958, Movie theatre
etiquette. (11 Hours)
Unit-5 Cine- workers and Cinema Theatre Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act, 1981.
Information technology act 2000. Piracy. (10 Hours)
Suggested Readings:
1. Steve Greenfield, Guy Osborn, Peter Robson, Film and the Law - The Cinema of Justice, Hart Publishing 2018
2. Cees J. Hamelin, Ethics of Cyberspace, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2001.
3. Karen Sanders, Ethics and Journalism, Sage Publications, New Delhi,2003
4. ArvindSighal, India’s Communicatio revolution, Sage Publications, New Delhi, 2001 5. B. Manna, Naya Prakash, Mass Media and Laws in India, Calcutta, 1998.
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