Current active course description (last updated 2019/20)
PreProduction
VFX2070
Current active course description (last updated 2019/20)
PreProduction
VFX2070
This course focus on pre-production for the Short Fiction project with is an cooperation between Film and TV students and 3D art, animation and VFX students. They have to prepare for producing a short fiction movie where they include both displines.
Upon completion of this course, students will have a working knowledge of basic pre-production elements and workflow.
Students will:
Skills
- Be able to conceive and pitch story ideas for a short film
- Be able to write a script, taking it through several drafts
- Be able to break down the script as to cast, locations, prop needs, etc.
- Be able to effectively scout and negotiate use of locations
- Be able to effectively audition talent for casting
- Be able to effectively create a storyboard of the film
- Be able to effectively create a production design plan for the film
- Be able to construct realistic schedules and budgets
Knowledge
- Have an understanding of the pre-production process, including knowledge of writing, casting, locations, scheduling, budget, etc.
- Have an understanding of the importance of all element processes in pre-production
- Have an understanding of how decisions made in pre-production will impact production and post-production.
- Have an understanding of the use of pre-vis techniques to simulate the final product
Competence
- Have the ability to create a viable and accomplishable plan from a concept
- Have the ability to identify strengths and weaknesses in a plan
- Have the ability to mitigate possible negative effects of the weaknesses
- Have the ability to make a plan as a group
- Have the ability to focus on details in a critical fashion
- Have the ability to work in a task-specific way, yet within a larger group or dynamic
No tuition fees. Semester fees and cost of course literature apply.
Lectures and practical exercises.
Students do evaluation on both courses and the hole curriculum.
Med overlapp menes en faglig likhet mellom emner med samme faginnhold. Du vil derfor få følgende reduksjon i studiepoeng om du har tatt emner som er angitt under:
MMT2006 - PreProduction - 15 credits
FTV2104 - PreProduction - 15 credits