SWAN 490 - Advanced Film Production

3 Credits
2 lecture hours. 2 lab hours.

Workshop providing students with opportunities to rehearse, perform, and evaluate scenes on location and in sound stages. Three different production styles to which performers may need to adjust are: (1) preproduction rehearsals with director (2) single-camera experience, and (3) multiple camera experience. Draws from array of historical examples, examination of many expressive strategies useable in the creation of moving image art forms. Unifying theory and practice, presentation of approach to viewing great films of past that empowers filmmakers to use sound and images to tell stories. Focus on strategic decisions making in areas of writing, design, cinematography, editing, sound, and performance to enable filmmakers to discover their own personal style in telling stories on the screen.

Prerequisite(s) SWAN 380 or SWAN 385 or permission of Instructor required to register
Offered (AS NEEDED)