Film, Media, Theater 340DA - Advanced Courses in Production and Practice: 'Directing Actors for the Screen'

Directing Actors for Screen

Fall
2023
01
4.00
Elliot Montague

TH 01:30PM-04:20PM

Mount Holyoke College
121310
Art 222
emontagu@mtholyoke.edu
Intended for advanced film/video production students, this course will focus on the cinematic directorial skills needed for a successful collaboration with actors. Through discussions, exercises, film director workshops and audition/casting sessions, students will cast, rehearse and shoot short scenes (both original and adapted) from an array of cinematic genres. We will build upon our skills of script and character analysis and creating dramatic conflict. Though we will be collaborating with theater student actors, all students in the class will be expected to direct as well as act.

Prereq: FMT-240VP.

Permission is required for interchange registration during all registration periods.