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Introduction to Film Directing

Subject
Subject code FE.44.03
Subject name Introduction to Film Directing
Credit points 2 ECTS
Grading method Distinctive
Curriculum subject
Curriculum 2017 2271
Study year 4
Semester Fall semester
Subject type Mandatory
General description
• film as a narrative, the basics of dramaturgy;
• from treatment to scenario: film in words
• film language and film grammar: from mise-en-scène to montage;
• film genres and the characteristics involved;
• the short formats of film art (advertisement, music video) and alternative techniques (animation, photo film);
• documentary film and and its characteristics.
Study outcome
On successful completion of this course the students should be able to:

• have basic knowledge of classical approach to drama
• express, as precisely as possible, image-based ideas in words and vice versa;
• know the grammar of film language;
• have basic knowledge of the expressive elements of cinema, and the diversity involved;
• choose a suitable form for their idea;
• perceive the differences between the two centrally temporal forms of art: photography and cinema.
Current rounds
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