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Making a Short Film: Start to Finish

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Learn how to make your own short film. Explore the basic elements of screenwriting, production, and directing.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Create your own short film
1. Script
  • Where to look for ideas
  • Is your idea a story?
  • Character
  • Mapping the script structure
  • From skeleton to outline
  • Screenplay format
  • Writing the screenplay
  • Rewriting and revisions
  • Preparing the rest of your production
2. Camera, Lighting, and Sound
  • Script analysis and breakdown
  • Understanding visual storytelling
  • Part 1: Shots and shot composition
  • Part 2: Elements of shot composition
  • Camera movement
  • Part 1: Shots working together
  • Part 2: Audience emotion
  • Lighting
  • Sound
  • Production design, costumes, hair and makeup
3. Preparing Your Production
  • How to approach prepping your production
  • Creative challenges
  • Technical challenges
  • Producer’s challenges
  • Take a list of you
  • Budgeting
  • Scheduling
  • Assembling your crew
  • Locations
4. Working with Actors and Preproduction
  • Casting
  • The producing side of casting
  • Rehearsals
  • Working with actors on set
5. Production
  • A typical day on set
  • Coverage
  • Make the pages
  • Communication efficiency
  • Common logistical issues
  • Planning for post-production

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