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Unit 3: Film 

WEEK 8 - 14

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

  • Students will prepare a presentation and summarize one of following topics from Setting Up Your Shots: Basic Camera Techniques, Composition Techniques, Crane Techniques, Techniques of Movement, Techniques of Perspective, Camera Techniques, Editing Techniques and Miscellaneous Techniques.
  • Students will apply basic cinematic techniques in conjunction with elements of design to create a genre-based short film.
  • Students will create and write a story based on a painting and sketch a storyboard to provide a visual representation of the story.
  • Students will apply cinematic and editing techniques in creating a short painting-to-life film.


Assignments

  1. Presentation based on Setting Up Your Shots by Jeremy Vineyard
  2. Genre-based short film 
  3. Treatment and Storyboards for Painting to Life Film
  4. Painting to Life Film

Students post all their assignments on their individual blog sites.

Student Work Examples

Editing PowerPoint Presentation

Genre-based short film

Basic Cinematic Techniques

Editing PowerPoint Presentation

Painting to Life Film

Miscellaneous Cinematic Techniques
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