SECOND YEAR – OPEN ELECTIVES – FILM AND TELEVISION MANAGEMENT
World Cinema and Society
We often consume cinema without engaging with it at a deeper level—even as we form deep insights/opinions on cinema. Films are fantastic medium which reflect prevailing social markers and perspectives, and offer alternative schema of imagination to evolve, resist & subvert the same. In keeping with these, the objectives of the course include introducing the ‘film’ as a political and social artifact of contemporary society and, showcasing a diversity of world cinemas from various cultures & to study trends in the contents and form of international cinema ,grounding cinematic narratives, styles and themes beyond mainstream cinema and to understand the changing human condition in different parts of the world as reflected in its cinema and to study the impact of culture and society on contemporary international cinema.
Television Production
The main objective of this course is for the students to learn how to use the tools necessary to produce television programs in a professional and responsible manner. The students will gain a working knowledge of and familiarity with the power and potential of the medium. They will learn how to use it responsibly to affect powerful change in society. We will strive for a level of professionalism in an intensive lecture-laboratory course designed to increase student awareness and competency in television production. Areas and skills to be developed include shooting with portable cameras and editing with digital software. Production techniques that will be covered include lighting, audio, and maintaining professional levels of quality.
TV Programming and Channel Management
The course aims to help students understand through the four different aspects of TV programming, the nature and scope of programming in a channel & the making of a FPC (fixed Point Chart), comprehend the usage of competitive TV programming strategies for making a channel’s FPC in a multi-channel environment and make a competitive FPC, appreciate the unique nature of the TV narrative flow which is segmented and serialized and which entices its viewership by using breaks and hooks. It teaches students to appreciate Passive & Active Scripts in Television, dwelling on the characteristics of different TV genres and formats, to understand Hybridism in TV genres as a new and growing phenomenon of TV programming in a multi-channel environment, to study some popular global TV genres (Fiction& Non Fiction) viz. Soap opera, Sitcom, Reality Quiz, Game & Talk Shows, to develop skill to interpret & follow plots & subplots of a Telenovela/Soap. It also teaches them to appreciate that this course’s objective is to create skilled programmers and Appreciate and understand Programming for Mobiles.
Film Making and Production Management
This course aims to introduce students to the fundamentals of shooting a film or a short film for television and give an all-round, holistic, technical and aesthetic training to aspiring filmmakers. It help in understanding the 360 degree of full Film Production Process i.e. pre-production, production and post production and the importance of each film department and how they are linked. It equips the students with correct screen grammar and gives them understanding of real industry so that they can suite with industry requirement and sustain.
Cinematography
Cinematography is the process of capturing a vision on film or video. As both an art and a craft it is a dynamic process that involves the composition of light, shadow, time and movement. For the cinematographer this requires a synthesis of technical skills and creative sensibility.
The Cinematography course is specifically designed to give filmmaker students insights into video or digital cinematography. This is accomplished through theoretical and practical exercises as well as extensive “hands-on” work where students will shoot their classmates’ productions allowing the students to master the technical and aesthetic principals of Cinematography.
Editing and Sound Design
If shooting is like generating the raw material of a film, the edit table is where the film finds its final processed and packaged form. The art of editing, no longer an invisible art as it used to be, is perhaps the very essence of film making. The editor is the one who makes the final cut with the help of the director about what needs to be seen and heard in a film, while also controlling its rhythm and pace. Extremely technical and yet tremendously artistic, film editing is creatively satisfying. Sound Recording and Track Design and Mixing in present times are a job of a specialized sound recordist. Most modern systems are nowadays equipped with sophisticated sound processors to enable recordists to generate professional sound tracks and mixes. A sound recordist must therefore understand both technically and aesthetically the requirements of sound track design and mixing. All four components of audio track design - dialogue, sync effects, non-sync effects, and music must be understood independently and then together as part of the overall image making process of films.
Business of Entertainment
The Objectives of this Course are to provide students with insights into the business of entertainment and media in India, to empower them with select production management techniques specifically applicable to entertainment industries and to inspire them to explore entrepreneurial options in the rapidly growing and changing entertainment and media sector.