VM 627 - Advanced Fiction Directing

Credits: 4
This class is designed to provide the space for student directors to explore more advanced hands-on, cinematic tools of the director from script analysis, staging, blocking, thoughtful shot choices and framing demonstrated through filmed exercises and projects. Students will also explore and develop directorial ideas, personal voice and style aimed at supporting the thesis project. Students will work on in-class exercises and shoot several directing exercises outside of class culminating with a final short film or scene or use the thesis film idea for testing out ideas.

Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s) VM 624: Graduate Directing Actors for the Screen or permission of the instructor.