Directing (Ultimate)

What does the director do? How does the director take a story from script to screen? Learn this and more in Directing. The Ultimate package includes 5 live sessions with a Story Master and professional notes on directing assignments.

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Course curriculum

1. Live Session #1
2. Intro
3. What Kind of Filmmaker Are You?
4. Exercise: What Kind of Filmmaker Are You?
5. Finding the Right Story
6. Exercise: A Good Story Idea
7. Components to Good Short Film Stories
8. Get to the Script!
1. Intro
2. What a Director Does
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3. The Phases of Pre-Production
4. The Secrets of Script Analysis
5. Assignment: Script Analysis
6. The Art of the Storyboard
1. Intro
2. Thinking Visually: Theme
3. Thinking Visually: Composition
4. Thinking Visually: Emotion
5. Thinking Visually: Camera Movement
1. Intro
2. The Importance of Storyboards
3. The Storyboarding Process
4. Assignment: The Storyboard
5. The Shot List
6. Assignment: The Shot List
7. The Overhead
8. The Director's Notebook
9. Video: Francis Ford Coppola's Director's Notebook
1. Live Session #2
2. Intro
3. Above the Line Crew
4. Below the Line Crew
5. A Successful Day
1. Intro
2. The Basics of Performance
3. Emotions, Verbs, and the Power of Risk
4. Crafting the Performance
5. The Well-Run Audition
1. Intro
2. The Basics
3. The I Formation
4. Other Formations
5. Video: How to Make an Overhead Map
6. Assignment: Make an Overhead Map
1. Live Session #3
2. Intro
3. Acting Styles and Approach
4. Three Things Your Actors Need
5. Rehearsal
1. Intro
2. Design Questions
3. Production Design
4. Costume Design
5. Lighting
6. Conclusion
7. Video: How to Create A Look Book
8. Assignment: Create a Look Book!
1. Intro
2. Managing Your Schedule
3. Managing Conflict
4. Helpful Tips
1. Live Session #4
2. Intro
3. A Brief History of Cutting
4. It Starts With the Script!
5. Some Tips and Tricks
6. Workflow
7. Video: Psycho - Shower Scene
8. Assignment: The Shower Scene
1. Intro
2. Editing - What to Focus On
3. Editing - Knowing When You're Done
4. Score
5. Sound
6. Color
1. Intro
2. Next Steps
3. Exercise: Who Is Your Audience?
4. Film Festivals
5. Exercise: Film Festivals
6. Raising Money
7. The Next Film
8. Exercise: Brainstorming
1. Intro
2. My Story
3. Film School
4. Things to Remember
5. Do It
6. Exercise: Your Finished Film
1. Live Session #5
2. That's a Wrap!
3. Exercise: Story Exercise
4. Exercise: What Have You Learned

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$649.00
93 lessons
14 hours of video content

This course is eligible for college credit.

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