Course Outline

RTVF363 SINGLE CAMERA PRODUCTION

DURATION OF COURSE, CREDIT VALUE, COURSE TYPE	4 (2+2) hours, 3 credits, area elective
ACADEMIC YEAR & SEMESTER	2009-2010 Spring Semester
GROUPS	01
COURSE PERIOD AND CLASSROOM	Tuesday – 13:30 – 16:20 – CMS216
PREREQUISITE	-
STAFF MEMBER	Sen.Inst.Ozan Konrot
OFFICE AND PHONE	FCMS, CMS141 / 630 2722
OFFICE HOURS	To be announced
E-MAIL ADDRESS	ozan.konrot@emu.edu.tr
WEB SITE	ozanhoca.blogspot.com , rtvf363.blogspot.com

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course aims to establish students skills and experience with the practice of single camera production, focusing on the pre-production process, basically acting as a producer. The production process will be examined and practised during the course, and working efficiently and responsible as a producer.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The aim of this course is to help the students in the process of becoming producers, understand, design and practice productions efficiently.

The objectives of the course are as follows:

At the end of the course, the students will be aware and develop skills in:

• Responsibilities of the producer.

• Formatting the script

• Script breakdown

• Budgeting

• Preparing the paperwork

• Hiring the crew – Job Descriptions

• Location scouting

• Casting

• Lighting and scene design

• Props and costumes

• Production scheduling

• Basics of cinematography

• Basics of sound design

• Basics of production design

• Importance of dailies and keeping track

• The post-production process

CONTENT & SCHEDULE

Week 1	22-28 February	Introduction: Responsibilities of the producer, Introduction of production management software Assignment: Research on a successful film producer – their lives, work & how they've held the production process. Find*/Write a 4-5 page script with: 2 scenes(max.) 2 characters (max.) *requires appropriate permissions, written and signed by the writer.
Week 2	1-7 March	The Script: Reading and formatting the script Assignmert: Format the script, to start the production process (5pts.)
Week 3	8-14 March	The Script: Script Breakdown Assignmert: Breaking down the script (5pts.)
Week 4	15-21 March	Budgeting Assignmert: Create a budget on the script (5pts.) Hiring the crew, Deparments Assignmert: Find out who works in a film and write down their job descriptions, as it is an agreement for hiring. Hire your crew. (5pts.)
Week 5	22-28 March	Location Management Assignmert: Scouting for a location, according the script. (5pts.)
Week 6	29 March-4 Apr	Casting Assignmert: Casting for a character, according the script. (5pts.)
Week 7	5-11 Apr	Production Scheduling Assignmert: Schedule the production, according the script & production elements. (5 pts.)
Week 8	12-18 Apr	Mid-Term (%35): Presentation of Pre-Production material
Week 9	19-25 Apr	Basics of Cinematography Assignmert: Create a “test” image, according the script, to achieve a desired meaning/feeling/atmosphere, considering, lighting, depth-of-field, color & camera angle (10pts.)
Week 10	26 Apr-2 May	Basics of Production Design Assignmert: Create a “test” scene, according the script, to achieve a desired meaning/feeling/atmosphere, considering costumes, scenery, props, color & lighting (10pts.)
Week 11	3-9 May	Keeping The Production in Track: Dailies and Daily Reports Assignmert: Shooting the script and keeping reports. Evaluating the shooting and checking the reports while watching dailies with the instructor.(15pts.)
Week 12	10-16 May	The Post-production Process: Capturing & Editing Assignmert: Design a post-production workflow according the script/scene. Capture the material, shot on Week 12, efficiently and weel organized.(5pts.)
Week 13	17-23 May	The Post-production Process: Sound Design, Coloring & Visual Effects Assignmert: Edit the material shot on Week 12, create the sound track and color correct. Finalize the film. (10pt.)
Week 14	24-30 June	Final: Presentation of Materials

TEACHING / LEARNING APPROACH

This course will be conducted through lectures, discussions and design activities. After the teacher’s lecture on a certain subject, a discussion will be held in order to increase the students’ comprehension. Design activities will be done by the students to think and reflect on their production decisions at design. The students will always be encouraged to be active participants for learning in classes. The weekly assignments will be an active production process, which will result with a final film.

TEXTBOOK

There is no primary textbook for this course.

READING LIST

Suggested Reading List:

(will all be available to download as e-books through the course website)

ARRI Lighting Handbook

Alberstat - The Insider's Guide to Film Finance

Blake Jones - Video Color Correction for Non-Linear Editors A Step-by-Step Guide

Clark, Spohr - Guide to Postproduction

Cleve - Film Production Management

Cooper, Dancyger - Writing the Short Film, Third Edition

Dancyger - The Director's Idea

Dancyger - The Technique of Film and Video Editing

Evans - Practical DV Filmmaking

Gloman, LaTourneau - Placing Shadows

Grey - Master Lighting Guide

Hullfish - The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction

LoBrutto - The Filmmaker's Guide to Production Design

Mascelli - The Five C's of Cinematography - Motion Picture Filming Techniques

Mitchell - Visual Effects for Film & Television (Media Manuals)

Musburger - Single Camera Video Production

Proferes - Film Directing Fundamentals

Purcell - Dialogue Editing for Motion Pictures

Rabiger - Directing

Richter - The Art and Business of Directing Commercials

Rizzo - The Art Direction Handbook for Film

Rosenthal - Writing, Directing, and Producing Documentary Films and Videos

Rotovision Prolighting

Simonelli, Frunkes - Shoot Me

Ward - Picture Composition

Wheeler - Digital Cinematography

SOFWARE

celtx, an open-source, free production management will be used through all the steps of the course. It may be downloaded free from www.celtx.com, and is available for Windows, Mac OSX, and LINUX.

REQUIREMENTS FOR SUCCESS

Students are required to

• read about the subject that will be studied in class before coming to class,

• be punctual about the assignments and other course activities,

• participate actively in the discussions and design activities,

• fulfil all the needs of the production,

• make the midterm presentation,

• produce a short film,

• make the final presentation

• attend at least 10 weeks in the semester.

DO NOT FORGET THAT EACH PRODUCTION PHASE ONE STEP AHEAD THE PREVIOUS, EACH PHASE WILL BE GIVEN POINTS ONLY IF THE PREVIOUS STEP HAS BEEN ACHIEVED. LATE SUBMISSIONS WILL DECREASE CERTAIN POINTS FROM ASSIGNMENTS.

Student success will be evaluated as following:

First 7 Assignments	(mentioned in outline) – Total 35pts.
Mid-Term Presentation	5 pts.
MID-TERM TOTAL:	40 pts.
Last 5 Assignments	(mentioned in outline) – Total 50pts.
Final Presentation	10pts.
FINAL TOTAL:	60 pts.
GRAND TOTAL:	100pts

Students’ total scores will be graded according to following criteria:

A 100 96

A- 95 91

B+ 90 86

B 85 81

B- 80 76

C+ 75 71

C 70 66

C- 65 61

D+ 60 56

D 55 51

D- 50 45

F 44 00

NG If student attends less than 10 weeks

and/or does present their short film