The Art of Filmmaking: Composition and Moving Image

This course is an introduction to composition specifically as it is used in the moving image. There are four modules: Cinematic Thinking, which will serve as an overview of cinematic history, vocabulary, and alternative approaches to filmmaking, Choreography for Camera, a dive into the rules of composition and camera movement, Light Writing, which will explore different kinds of lighting, and Composing, in which all that we’ve learned will be combined and broader aspects of filmmaking such as sound and editing will be introduced. This course is designed to be hands-on. In each module there w…