Overview
-
Learn how to shoot a motion picture and tell stories in a powerful way—from ASC cinematographer and professor Bill Dill. Part 1 covers narrative filmmaking techniques.
Syllabus
-
Introduction
- Welcome
- Who is this course for?
- A brief history of motion pictures
- Focus on narrative filmmaking
- Pre-production planning
- Develop a process
- Assemble your crew
- The actor's perspective
- The basics of storytelling
- Understand the story
- Choose your own theory of filmmaking
- The audience's experience
- Communicate with shapes
- The visual pattern recognition system
- Orient the audience
- Change a pattern for a purpose
- Elements of composition
- Who's driving the scene?
- Types of digital cameras
- Simple cameras
- Complex cameras
- Recording, compression, and storage
- What a lens actually does
- Primes vs. Zooms
- Choose a focal length
- The components of depth of field
- The aesthetics of depth of field
- The seven elements of exposure
- The speed of the camera
- What is correct exposure?
- Light meters
- Picture the light in your mind
- How much light do you need?
- Basic lighting
- Quality lighting
- Lighting equipment
- Grip equipment
- Why do we move the camera?
- How camera movement relates to story
- How do we move the camera?
- Blocking and lighting
- Make the best choices for your film
