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Filmmaking Laboratory

Code 13097
Year 2
Semester S1
ECTS Credits 6
Workload OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area Cinema
Entry requirements Understanding foreign languages. Some bibliography and filmography may be provided in a foreign language, whenever there is no equivalent in Portuguese Language.
Mode of delivery -- Face-to-face
Work placements -- No
Learning outcomes The Curricular Unit aims to develop filmmaking skills, both through analysis and the creation of scenes and/or film sequences, to allow students developing a unique authorial vision. Throughout the semester, students will develop skills to envision the movie before shooting, through the practice of planning and conceptualizing scenes and sequences, both by breaking down the scene and long takes, using the camera as a narrator.
At the end of the semester, students must fullfil the following learning outcomes:
1. Distinguish the various functions of the film crew, particularly the ones in the directing area;
2. Master the specifics of each filme production phase, starting at the idea until the final movie;
3. Understand and use the rules of the film language;
4. Envisioning and planing movie scenes;
5. Create the various directing documents to prepare the shooting;
6. Explore and imagine creative approaches to the screenplay.
Syllabus 1. Functions of the film crew
1.1 The role of the film crew members
1.2 The collaboration of the various crew members
2. The creative role of the camera
2.1 The shot: scales and perspectives
2.2 Objective and subjective camera
2.3 Camera movements
3. Mise-en-scene
3.1 The construction of the scene
3.2 Decoupage and Long Take
3.3 Continuity rules
3.4 Shot / Reverse Shot
4. Planning
4.1 Director's Script
4.2 Floor Plans
4.3 Storyboard
Main Bibliography Proferes, Nicholas T., and Laura J. Medina. Film Directing Fundamentals: see your film before shooting. Routledge, 2017.
Katz, Steven Douglas, and Steve Katz. Film directing shot by shot: visualizing from concept to screen. Gulf Professional Publishing, 1991.
Rabiger, Michael. Directing: Film techniques and aesthetics. Routledge, 2013.
Marner, Terrence. A realização cinematográfica. Lisboa: Edições 70, 2007.
Martin, Marcel. A linguagem cinematográfica. Lisboa: Dinalivro, 2005.
Kazan, Elia. Kazan on directing. Vintage, 2009.

Filmografia:
No Country For Old Men (2007), Joel and Ethan Coen
Notorious (1946), Alfred Hitchcok
Shining (1980), Stanley Kubrick
Parasitas (2019), Bong Joon Ho
Touch of Evil (1958), Orson Welles
Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Denis Villeneuve
Inglourious Basterds (2009), Quentin Tarantino
The Godfather (1972), Francis Ford Coppola
Ossos (1997), Pedro Costa
Shirin (2008), Abbas Kiarostami
Do the Right Thing (1989), Spike Lee
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2023-01-19

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