Introduction to Filmmaking

This course is an introduction to telling stories and expressing ideas in film. It introduces historical and critical issues of film language and provides a theoretical and technical foundation for future work. Principles of cinematography and editing are applied through assignments in the forms of documentary, narrative, and experimental genres. Technical processes and practices demonstrated include preproduction planning, shooting, basic lighting, sound recording and mixing, and digital editing. Equal attention is availed to technical and artistic concerns in screenings, lectures, discussions, technical demonstrations, and evaluations. Each student develops their creative work through the completion and critique of individual and group projects and exercises.