Practical: Film Studies and Production

Paper Code: 
DJMC 502(B)
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

This course will enable the students to produce a short film while writing script, shooting and editing the film.

 

10.00
Unit I: 

Language of Cinema; Language of Cinema I – Focus on visual Language- Shot, Scene, Mis‐en‐scene, Deep focus; Continuity Editing, Montage;

Language of Cinema II – Focus on Sound and Colour- Diegetic and Non Diegetic Sound, Off

Screen Sound, Sync Sound, use of Colour as a stylistic Element.

 

10.00
Unit II: 

Third Cinema and Non Fiction Cinema; Introduction to Feminist Film Theory;

Auteur- Film Authorship with a special focus on Ray or Kurusawa

 

15.00
Unit III: 

Hindi Cinema-Early Cinema and the Studio Era; 1950s ‐ Cinema and the Nation (Guru Dutt, Raj Kapoor, Mehboob); The Indian New-Wave; Globalisation and Indian Cinema; Film Culture.

20.00
Unit IV: 

Production  of a short film- Content style research, Script and Screenplay development,

Recce, Voice Over and Shooting.

 

35.00
Unit V: 

Editing - Preparation, EDL and Previewing, Rough cut and Final editing, Effects and Titling.

Essential Readings: 
  • Viewings:
  • Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock (Language of Cinema)
  • Battleship Potempkinby Sergei Eisenstein (Language of Cinema)
  • Man with a Movie Camera by DzigaVertov
  • Germany Year Zero directed by Roberto Rosselini (Italian Neo Realism)
  • Metropolis by Fritz Lang/Double Indemnity by Billy Wilder (German Expressionism and
  • Film Noir)
  • PatherPanchali by Satyajit Ray
  • The hour of the Furnaces by Fernando Solanas
  • Nishantby ShyamBenegal/Aakrosh by GovindNihalani (Indian New wave)
  • Pyaasa by Guru Dutt


 

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