Film Reading Course
Time: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 6 pm – 9 pm
Opening: Mon 16 Sep 2019, 6 pm
TOONG co-working space
8 Trang Thi, Hang Trong, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
From the organizers:
COURSE DETAILS:
1. Target students:
• FILMMAKERS (Film Director/DOP/Film Editor)
• FILM CRITIC & THEORIST – FILM REVIEWER
• CINEPHILE
2. Objective:
Help students improve aesthetic knowledge in enjoying & creating cinema works.
– Help FILMMAKERS build for themselves a multi-dimensional thinking system: theory & practice, in order to improve the artistic quality of their works.
– Help FILM CRITICS, FILM REVIEWERS to write true ‘cinematic’ reviews (FORMAT/STYLE) and not be constrained by the ‘literary’ writing style (focused on the IDEOLOGICAL CONTENT OF THE WORK).
– Help CINEPHILE to ‘read’ in depth any cinematic work, from commercial to artistic movies.
3. Methodology: WATCH THE MOVIES – LEARN THE THEORY – ANALYSE – WRITE
4. Syllabus:
“There are three movies in a cinema work: One on the paper, one in the camera and one on the editing table.”
FILM READING consists of 11 lessions divided into 17 3-hour sessions.
LECTURE 1: FILM FORM & FILM NARRATIVE (2 sessions)
1. Film form
2. Film narrative – Elements of film narrative
3. School of thoughts
4. Cinematic code
5. Film genres
LECTURE 2: SCREENPLAY ANALYSIS (3 sessions)
1. Motion picture screenplay: necessary and sufficient conditions
2. Screenplay analysis
LECTURE 3: FILM LANGUAGE. 1: Mise-en-scène (2 sessions)
1. Mise-en-scène
2. Elements in a mise-en-scène
3. Mise-en-scène & film movements
LECTURE 4: FILM LANGUAGE. 2: Cinematography 1 (1 session)
1. Scene: Aspect ratio – Camera angle – Camera movement
2. Light
3. Color
4. ‘Reading’ technique & Image analysis
LECTURE 5: FILM LANGUAGE. 3: Cinematography 2 (2 sessions)
1. Space – Space ratio
2. Images & Lines
3. Direction
LECTURE 6: FILM LANGUAGE. 4: The art of editing. 1 – The basics of film editing (1 session)
1. Where to begin?
2. Why to select?
3. When to cut?
LECTURE 7: FILM LANGUAGE. 5: The art of editing. 2 – Early cinema & Classical Hollywood cinema (2 sessions)
1. Early cinema: Single/multiple shot
2. Classical Hollywood cinema
• Film narrative characteristics of Classical Hollywood cinema
• Film style characteristics of Classical Hollywood cinema
• Soviet montage: Pudovkin – the art of parallel editing
LECTURE 8: FILM LANGUAGE. 6: The art of editing. 3 – Soviet montage – time, rhythm & emotion (1 session)
LECTURE 9: FILM LANGUAGE. 7: The art of editing. 4 – French New Wave (1 session)
1. Film narrative characteristics of French New Wave
2. Film style characteristics of French New Wave
LECTURE 10: FILM LANGUAGE. 8: The art of editing. 5 – Slow cinema (1 session)
LECTURE 11: FILM LANGUAGE. 9: Film sound & music (1 session)
1. The basics of film sounds & music
2. Sound – music & film language
ABOUT THE LECTURE:
Film director Le Hai Nam graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Film directing from Hanoi Academy of Theater and Cinema, and a master’s degree in Film Critics from University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University – Hanoi.
He has worked in film industry as well as film training for many years. He is currently the founder and principal instructor in the filmmaking course MAKE FILMS. NOT WAR.
Believing that studying art must always start from the basic rules and principles before attempting to break through or create your own trademark, and especially a multi-dimensional perspective: from the inside out and vice versa, and always start from human psychology to systems of theory and practice.
For inquiry, please contact: Mr. Hai Nam | 0912 33 7008 | [email protected]
Tuition fee: 4.500.000 VNĐ
5% DISCOUNT FOR GROUP OF 3 AND MORE
BANK ACCOUNT FOR FEE SUBMISSION:
+ Account number: 19029798688889
+ Bank: Techcombank
+ Account holder name: LE HAI NAM
*** Notice: In the transaction note, please write in detail following the format: FILM READING_FULL NAME_PHONE NUMBER_EMAIL.
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