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Texts: Required: Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video by Peter Rea and David Irving (Fourth Edition); also, The MPE Motion Picture, TV, and Theatre Directory for Services and Products (free, courtesy of your instructor) Required for graduate students: On Directing Film by David Mamet Recommended: On Directing Film by David Mamet: Film and Video Budgets (latest Ed) by Michael Wiese and Deke Simon Required Additional readings on Overnight Reserve in Equipment Room (see schedule for due dates): Notebook by Elia Kazan for A Streetcar Named Desire (pgs 364-379, from the book Directors on Directing, edited by Toby Cole and Helen Krich Chinoy; excerpts from the book On Directing by Harold Clurman, pgs 74-86 ('The Director's Workscript") and pages 268-273 (Workscript for the play "Waltz of the Toreadors"); "This Other England" (profile of Mike Leigh) by John Lahr, reprinted from The New Yorker Magazine Student Scripts on Reserve in Equipment Room "Sisyphus: Of Hills and Hells" (student screenplay by Shawn Childe aka Barry Gordon); "Cloud Reading" (student screenplay by Rich Bullington) Undivide (student screenplay by Beth Halldorson Thinning the Herd (student screenplay by Matt Weatherly) DVDS on Reserve in Equipment Room: A Streetcar Named Desire Hustle and Flow Black Snake Moan Grade: (Note that final grades for this class will deploy the universitys plus/minus system.) Quizzes 50% Directing Exercise Prep pack 25% Proposal or research paper: 25% {Note: Graduate students will have a paper due at the beginning of the Final Exam Period. It will be worth 25% of their grade. The quizzes will constitute 25% of their grade.} Your final grade as computed above may be raised or lowered up to 15 percentage points based on the quality, timeliness, and consistency of such "ungraded" class work as your participation in class discussion, your assigned budget items report, your preliminary proposal, and the quality of your oral presentation of your proposal. Note that missing class, arriving late, or leaving early all tend to diminish the quality of one's class participation. Please note further that missed crew assignments or lackadaisical fulfillment of crew assignment responsibilities will very quickly lower one's final grade the full 15 points. Such behavior will also result in your peers treating you as an outcast. While on some lecture days I hope to dismiss you prior to 8:30 pm, please never assume that will be the case; and during directing exercise days anyone arriving after 5:30. or leaving prior to 8:30 for whatever reason, no matter how valid, will have failed his/her classroom responsibilities (as well as the needs of his/her fellow students) for that day . Class schedule and assignments are subject to change at the discretion of the professor. It is the student's responsibility to be aware of all such changes as announced in class, even if the student should be absent on the day such announcements are made. In addition to the reading assignments listed below, students should expect a few additional assignments from sources outside their text. Class Schedule 1/12: Introduction; Screening: The Old Forest, Dancing on a Volcano, Truman, Lunch Date (Note that all students are assigned to view Elia Kazan's 1951 film of A Streetcar Named Desire (the Marlon Brando-Vivien Leigh version) before reading the Kazan and Clurman readings due on January 27. _____________________________________________________________________________ 1/17: THE PROPOSAL AND THE SCRIPT Readings Due: Text: Intro, Preface, Timeline, & Chapters 1 and 2 and Appendices A, B, and C; Text Web site: View on your own time: A Nick in Time; Citizen; Crazy Glue In class hand outs: "A Game of Catch"(master scene script vs. shooting script excerpts) Screening: A Game of Catch, Ray for the NBA, Mirror, Mirror ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/19 SCRIPT BREAKDOWN Readings Due: Text: Pre- Production Intro (pgs 37-45) and Chapter 3 Breakdowns) Reserve Readings: Notebook by Elia Kazan for A Streetcar Named Desire (pgs 364-379 from the book Directors on Directing, edited by Toby Cole and Helen Krich Chinoy; from the book On Directing by Harold Clurman, pgs 77-86('The Director's Workscript") and pages 267-280 (Workscript for the play "Waltz of the Toreadors"); Directing Exercise Prep Pack Assignment Made and Discussed Screening: Excerpts from two Streetcar Named Desire films; Esophagus _____________________________________________________________________________ 1/24 Readings Due: Text: Chapters 4 (schedule) and 9(location) Screening: Safety on the set 1/26 Text: Chaps 5 (Budget), 6 (Crew),), 8(Art Direction); Proposal /Research Project Decisions Due; screening: Project Greenlight {QUIZ 1} _____________________________________________________________________________ 1/31 Text: chaps 14(set procedures), 11(camera); Appendix E (Safety Issues), Discussion of preliminary proposal Assignment Screening Project Greenlight 2/02 Text: chaps 12(sound), 13(art on set); Project Greenlight (cont) {QUIZ 2} ______________________________________________________________________________ 2/07 Project Greenlight (conclusion) 2/09 THE ACTOR Readings due: (For Grad Students) On Directing Film by David Mamet Text: Chaps 7 (Casting), 10 (Rehearsals), 15 (The Actor) On Reserve: This Other England" (profile of Mike Leigh) by John Lahr, reprinted from The New Yorker Magazine; Excerpts from Directing by Michael Rabiger Screening: Michael Caine on Film Acting ______________________________________________________________________________ 2/14 POST PRODUCTION Readings Due: Text chaps 16 (Picture Post, 17 (Sound Post), Assign Budget Research Items *** QUIZ 3 *** 2/16 Readings Due: Text:18 (Lab/On-Line), Appendix F (Music Clearance and Insurance), and G (Film Commissions)Appendix D (legal) _________________________________________________________________________ 2/21: POST PRODUCTION continued;; Non-fiction production: screenings TBA 2/23 {QUIZ 4} ; **Directing Exercise Prep Packs Due**; Sched indiv. Meetings Assign Craig Brewer Questions; Screen Craig Brewer Profile film 2/28 Indiv. meetings re Prep Packs and Preliminary Proposals 3/01 Indiv. Meetings continue; Preliminary Proposals Due * 3/6 & 3/08 2013 SPRING BREAK * 3/13 Student presentations of assigned budget research items (have copies ready to distribute to your fellow class members); Directing Exercise Schedule Assigned; hand out inventory for exam #2 3/15 Equipment Demonstration/Review in preparation of commencement of Directing Exercises _____________________________________________________________________________ 3/20 Directing Exercise grad student directs 3/22 Directing Exercise grad student directs ______________________________________________________________________ 3/27 Directing Exercise 3/29 Directing Exercise _____weekend group work________________________________________________________ 4/03 Directing Exercise 4/05 Directing exercise _______weekend group work_________________________________________________ 4/10 Directing exercises or Directors Edit Session (To Be Determined by Instructor) 4/12 Directing Exercises ____________________________________________________________________________ 4/17 Directors edit session 4/19 view directing exercises Grad & Undergrad Final Proposals /research projects due; first round presenters assigned __________________________________________________________________________3 4/24 Proposal Presentations begin (appropriate attire required) ____________________________________________________________________________ 5/03 Proposal Presentations (appropriate attire required) during final exam Session (5:30-7:30) (note: mandatory attendance by all students) Graduate Papers Due Directing Prep Packs and Exercises: Prep packs are required major assignments for all students, and working as crew on the directing scenes is also required. However, as a director you are not graded on the finished scene. In fact, directing the scene you have worked on in your prep pack is a privilege to be accorded only to graduate students and those undergraduate authors of the best prep packs submitted this semester. Proposal Assignment: Each student will create a proposal for a short film. (feature length proposals are possible, but see me before proceeding.) There are student scripts on reserve that you may use, but choose yours early and let me know asap: it is first come, first served, and only one proposal can be based on each script. There are also many web sites for short scripts. Unless you have another script in progress, choose one of them as the basis for your proposal, and be prepared to announce in class on February 2 which script you have chosen. The finished proposal must include the following: a two page introduction to the project that gives a brief treatment of the story, describes the style and tone of the proposed film and sells its potential appeal to specific audiences and/or its commercial viability; if using one of the scripts on reserve, a discussion of any changes you will make in the script if using a different script, a complete script a detailed line-item budget (assume you are paying for everything) thorough, complete breakdown sheets for every scene precise location lists and the names of the people from whom you would need location clearances a detailed pre-production, production, and post-production schedule. (further details of these and any additional requirements for this proposal will be made in class ) Those of you who have a script (written by you or by someone else) ready for a proposal must submit it to me by the beginning of class on February 2. I will take a cursory glance at it to make sure it is suitable for the purposes of the assignment. Since this is not a class in screenwriting, and there is only a semester to develop your proposal, I do not recommend that you start from scratch on a project you have not yet written or thought about a great deal. Note that two students may choose to work on a proposal together. If you plan to do so, you must make an appointment to discuss your plan of work with me no later than January 31. If your proposed project is non-fiction in nature, see me for adjustments to the above requirements. Further Note on Proposal Budget: Note that while you may use books to guide you in your budgeting, you are expected to get actual figures from real-world, current sources. You will be helped in this endeavor by the work shared with you in class by your fellow students, who will be responsible for tracking down two quotes for two specific budget categories (for a total of four quotes) as assigned by me. Also note that even equipment, services, or items that are being donated or performed gratis must be accounted for with appropriate line item budget figures. Alternate Assignment to Proposals: If you do not have a film you hope to make in the near future, you may find it more useful to do extensive research in a particular area of production in which you hope to find employment upon graduation. This could be editing, sound design and mixing, production design, wardrobe, props, casting, etc. If you wish to pursue this alternative, you should put together a proposal for a plan of work and make an appointment to discuss it with me no later than February 1. Moreover, when preliminary proposals are submitted, you will be expected to submit an outline and bibliography, as well as a plan to interview people in the field you have chosen. Note that this assignment, like the proposals, will include an oral class presentation as well as a major written component.     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