Advanced Directing
| Course Code | RT-230 |
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| Lecture hours per week | |
| Lab hours per week | 3 |
| Course Availability | Open |
| Description | This course is designed to familiarize the student with the advanced duties, challenges and strategies for directing film and television productions. Students will identify and apply skills to the role of the director as a creative leader, production collaborator and storyteller. Students will become productively conversant with resource planning, creative preparation, casting and working with actors, and working with the various departments on the realization of the finished production (script, camera, art, post-production). The course gives students a comprehensive understanding of the director’s craft, process and responsibilities before, during and after production. The course will cover script and script development, character, scene analysis, casting, rehearsal, performance, design, visual style and assembling the final product. Directors and non-directors alike will be shown how directors get what they want from actors, how they talk to cinematographers, production designers and costume designers and why most directors see editing as the final rewrite. Through lectures, screenings, exercises and assignments, they will be given a chance to find out firsthand what it’s like to occupy what is arguably the loneliest, the most stressful and, yet, paradoxically, the most rewarding position in film and television. Prerequisites
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