Practicals And Projects (Common for all courses of Film & TV Studies)

  First Semester : Foundation Course
 

1. Introduction to still camera, outdoor and indoor photo exposing.

2. Introduction to Video Camera, it’s parts, controls and calibrations.

3. Video Camera handling practice on stand and on shoulder, working on composition.

4. Developing and printing of B&W prints.

5. Video Studio Equipment, Editing machines, Special Effect Generator and Audio Mixers, understanding its controls, calibration and making effective use.

6. Shooting small continuity, using single camera and off- line cut to cut editing.

7. Multi camera shoot using four camera setup, and on-line editing using special effect generator, character generator and Audio Mixer.

8. Workshops on Creative Lighting, use of floods, multi 10 solar, spots etc. alongwith reflectors, diffusers, cutters, gels and other accessories.

9. Preparing floor plan and designing sets for shooting.

10. Workshops on script writing for documentary and fiction.

11. Practicals on computer throughout the year for working on different projects related to Digital Photography, Graphics, Sound Recording and Video Editing on Non-linear setup.

Second Semester : Concentrate on Specialised trade.

1. Workshop on visual Analysis (How to see films through a film maker’s eye), Story analysis, Camera Analysis, Continuity Analysis, understanding relations between picture, dialogue, music and effects. Analysis of structure of film using selected extracts as text material.             
   Directors, alongwith Reporters, Cameraman and Editors will collectively produce the following as their Portfolio productions.

2. Video Desk Production – Educational Programme using multi camera setup, special effect generation and online edit.

3. TV Presentation and News reading using multi-camera set-up (indoor) and single camera shoot (outdoor)

4. Music Video – Picturisation of song showing proper lipsync shooting on multi camera and / or single camera.

5. Talk Show (antakshari type) using multi camera setup, SEG and audiomixer.
   Visual Analysis of different non-fiction films such as News Bulletin, Documentaries, Talk Shows, Reality Shows etc, for it's content and structure.

6. Professional production of video Documentary using all kind of skills. Directors have to select topic, do research write script, take permission to shoot, carry on shooting, editing using narration, music, computer graphics etc. The group gets exposure to total production process of documentary film making (10 min.).

7. Professional production of Teleplay (story based) the group director has to write script, develop dialogues, create shot divisions, rehearse, shoot taking care of continuity and edit using effects and music.

8. Plus four weeks practical training at Doordarshan (refer to prospectus for details)