Visual Design

This directing workshop draws on ideas and
investigations about filmmaking that were
introduced in first year, asking you to
consider how concept relates to image and
meaning. Our main task will be a hands-on
investigation of visual strategies for narrative
directing, specifically focused on the
translation from concept to cinema. In a series
of labs and workshops, students will experiment
with text analysis, visual design, mise-en-scene,
staging, composition, movement, angle, focal
length, rhythm, continuity, coverage and most of
all, visual meanings. Students will prepare a
portfolio of visual designs for a series of
scenes, and act as a key collaborator in the
design, production and editing of one scene, to
be shot in class. Undergraduates must have
previously taken a foundational production
workshop course in order to enroll.