Professional Filmmaking Course 

30 sessions (with practicals) / 6 credits

Film and Television Direction skills are taught in this module, which equip a student to acquire leadership and team building qualities, to spearhead projects.

Basics of various types of shots, handling actors, shot breakdown, maintaining continuity, mise-en-scene, dialogue delivery, use of sound and Visual Effects, background score, are covered in this module. Students are prepared in all elements of production, creative as well as administrative aspects.

20 sessions (with practicals) / 4 credits

This Module covers the Aesthetic and Technical aspects of Film and Television productions, with topics like Visual language, Lens language, Optics, Cameras and their various controls, understanding and controlling different parts of the camera.

15 sessions/ 3 credits

This module involves elements of a story, identifying themes as a writer, what is script/ screenplay, formation of a screenplay, scene breakdown, adapting literature into film, nine act structure, point of view (who is the narrator)

15 sessions/ 3 credits

In these sessions, film as an Art form, a brief history of Film and Television,
ways of reading an Image, how to read a film, colour theory , compositions and
framing are taught.

10 sessions/ 2 credits

This module covers fundamental principles of editing and its relevance to the art of visual storytelling, history and evolution of film editing, concept of continuity in editing, principles of time and space, types of transitions and their influence, controlling emotions of the story.

10 sessions/ 2 credits

The sessions on Sound are crucial for understanding the role of sound and its technicalities, different microphones and recording formats, location recording and studio recording, dubbing ADR, the importance of sound effects and ambience sounds, the role of background music, sound mixing and sound as art. 

10 sessions/ 2 credits

Here, we learn skills like preparing budgets, making shooting schedules, management of below-the-line and above-the-line crew; responsibilities of creative and technical aspects of production (pre-production, production and post-production for Film, Television and OTT Productions)

5 sessions/ 1 credit

Understanding computer graphics, animation and visual effects, hands-on training on relevant softwares, green screen effects, visual effects using Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) are covered in this module.

10 sessions/ 2 credits

In a non-fiction shoot, based upon actuality, students to pick a topic based on their observation of some event happening around them for a hands-on assignment, which involves a process from ideation to the final product.

15 sessions/ 3 credits

This hands-on project can be a Documentary, an Ad film or a Topical human interest story. From writing script to the final product, every step has to be handled by the students.

20 sessions/ 4 credits

For this project, a short fiction film of 10 minutes duration is entirely developed, scripted, shot, and edited by the students in professional 4K format on a story adopted from literature. Mentoring will be undertaken by the faculty (Script to Screen)