MDSC 206 Script to Screen

 

       This course explores key elements of visual storytelling in narrative film, television, advertising and commercials. It began as an exploration of how a script is enacted as a film, through staging, camera movement and editing. However, it has become apparent that, given the rapid convergence of media, the process of visualization cannot be isolated to a single medium.  Today, many forms of media strive to emulate classical film narrative in its 'look' and structure; film directors cross over from film to commercials or music videos and back; and the techniques from one medium influence the visual structure of another medium-- the opening cut scenes in Halo now rival the opening scene of Avatar.   

 Required texts and software:

On Filmmaking: An Introduction to the Craft of the Director
by Alexander Mackendrrick
Faber and Faber
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-21125-8

Directed by Spielberg: Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster
by Warren Buckland
 Publisher: Continuum (April 19, 2006)
 ISBN-13: 978-0826416919

Additional readings will be distributed in class or made available online.