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Here’s a great course for film directors – the DIRECTORS FOUNDATION CERTIFICATE COURSE – a 5-week intensive that will teach you everything you need to know to direct your own film!
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RAINDANCE LA & ROUGH DIAMOND PRODUCTIONS
present
DIRECTOR’S FOUNDATION
CERTIFICATE COURSE
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW TO DIRECT YOUR OWN FILM!
with
DIRECTOR
JOHN PENNEY
Award-winning Writer/Director, Directing Instructor at the Los Angeles Film School
TAKE THE CLASS:
IN PERSON in West Hollywood
OR
LIVE ONLINE with Streaming Video!
If you live outside LA you can watch from ANYWHERE on your computer, smartphone, or tablet!
OR
AFTER EACH CLASS – with V.O.D!
If you can’t make it at class time, you can still watch afterwards with a Video On Demand link of the class sent the next day!
5-WEEK COURSE
beginning
MONDAY, June 18th, 2018
6pm to 8pm
and continuing for
5 Consecutive Monday Evenings
(through Monday, July 16th, 2018)
YOU WILL LEARN:
You will learn the key skills of working with the screenplay, directing camera, cast and crew, and gain an overview of each area of the director’s responsibilities through a series of classes. The course will cover How Directors Work with Writers and Interpret the Screenplay, how to Work with Actors in Rehearsal and On Set, the Technical Aspects and “Grammar” of Directing, and finally, what the director actually does On the Day of the Shoot, and how to best Work with Editors.
WEEKLY COURSE OUTLINE:
Week 1: The Director and the Script
The script is the blueprint for a movie. The director’s job is to read and interpret the screenplay. Discover how a good director translates the written word into the visual elements on the screen. A screenplay will be sent out to all students to read before the class and single scene will be work-shopped in Week 1. The instructor will talk about the overall story, how to break down a scene and discover the key events. He will discuss how to identify issues such as the 3 types of conflict in a scene.
– Analyzing and reading the script.
– Looking for the truth – what is this script really about?
– 3 types of conflict in a scene explained.
– Identifying key moments.
– Finding additional visual elements including discovering your theme and best way to show it visually.
– Discovering the hero’s journey.
– Identify what each character wants and how this defines the conflict.
Written Assignment for next week: Summarize the hero’s journey in the story and identify some of the story elements discussed.
Week 2: The Grammar of Directing
Directors use a variety of shots and lenses to compose their scenes and create a vocabulary of cinematic techniques and processes. Directors must learn the dos and don’ts of film grammar.
– Using the camera with the intention to tell the story.
– Demonstration of camera placement and lenses.
– Framing and composition – when to use subjective or objective.
– Approaching your coverage – the evolving master shot, shot size and focal length for coverage.
– How does a director communicates his vision, floor plan, storyboards, lookbook and shot lists?
– What is the 180 line? Understanding crossing the line with intention.
Written Assignment for next week: Take the scene and do your own storyboards, floor plan and shot list.
Week 3: The Director and the Rehearsal
Students will be sent a reading assignment that discusses directing tools for actors before class to review.
Guests: 2 actors to join “Table Read Rehearsal.”
– Casting and how to handle and identify the best actors in casting.
– Director’s role as a storyteller and how to get the results you want in performances from actors and how best to create characters for the screen.
– Exercises to discover the subtext.
– How to run a rehearsal and create mood and tension by inspiring the actors and using the tool of staging.
– We will do a table read first. Then students will adjust the performances.
– Creating characters for the screen – going over objective, action, subtext, destination, inner monologue, inner object, expectation, preceding moment, backstory, and biography.
Written Assignment for next week: Write a report on your thoughts on the tools and how you could use them for the characters in the scene.
Week 4: Directing the Actor
Put into practice the tools we have learned the previous week. The job of the director is to know the result you are looking for and have a vision of the film through the eyes of the audience. The director needs to know the emotional experience they want the audience to have. We will use the tools from the reading assignment to get the performance you want from the actors.
Guests: 2 actors to join “Directing the Actor”
– How to identify and understand an actor’s needs.
– The Director’s focus on set.
– Preparing to shoot.
– Working with AD on shooting schedule.
– Good communication under pressure.
– Making decisions and staying flexible.
– Shooting for the edit.
– Demonstration of how to block the scene for camera with actors.
– Students will get a chance to try blocking based on their storyboards and floor plans prepared
Written Assignment for next week: Watch “A Fish Called Wanda.”
Week 5: Understanding The Editing Process through the analysis of a completed sequence.
– The function of the director in the editing room.
– What does the director need to understand about editing?
– Sequence analysis on “A Fish Called Wanda.”
– Discuss all the elements we have worked on the previous weeks and how they come to play in the sequence in “A Fish Called Wanda.”
– Importance of music and sound design and how to pick the right composer.
SPECIAL DISCOUNT FOR INFOLIST.com!!
PREMIUM and PRO InfoList Members get $40 OFF!! That’s just $229 (normally $269!) for a 5-week course with director John Penney!
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Register now at the special link below:
https://www.raindance.org/courses/directors-foundation-certificate-la/
Course Location for LIVE EVENT:
Rough Diamond Productions
1424 N. Kings Road
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Information for Online or VOD:
Provided upon registration.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
JOHN PENNEY
Award-winning writer/director John Penney attended UCLA where he studied film and received a degree in English. In addition to his screenplays, John has written short stories that have won him an award from the Adelphi Academy in New York, and have been published in the “Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.”
In 2011 John wrote and directed the supernatural thriller “Hellgate,” starring William Hurt and Cary Elwes. The film was awarded Best Film at the Bram Stoker International Film Festival as as well as the Best Horror Film from the Fantasy Horror Awards in Italy, sponsored by Syfy Europe Universal. Prior writer-director credits include the thriller “Zyzzyx Road,” starring Katherine Heigl and Tom Sizemore, and the family film “Magic” with Robert Davis and Christopher Lloyd.
John is currently an adjunct Directing Instructor at the Los Angeles Film School and is prepping his next feature film, “Truck Stop,” based on his novel.
In addition to his directing, John has written the screenplays for such films as “The Enemy” starring Roger Moore, Luke Perry, Olivia D’abo; “Contaminated Man” starring Peter Weller and William Hurt; “A Breed Apart” with Robert Patrick, Andrew McCarthy; “In Pursuit” with Daniel Baldwin, and Claudia Schiffer; “Matter of Trust” with C. Thomas Howell; “The Kindred” with Rod Steiger, “Return of the Living Dead 3” with Mindy Clarke; “Past Perfect” with Eric Roberts, and Laurie Holden; and “Amphibious 3D” with Michael Pare.
John also served as a producer on his films “Zyzzyx Rd”, “A Breed Apart“, “Matter of Trust” and “In Pursuit.”
In 2012 John wrote his first novel “Truck Stop” and followed that up in 2013 with his second novel, “Killing Time.” He is also featured in the newly released book on screenwriting by Jose Prendes, “The High Concept Massacre” along with fellow screenwriters Carl Gottlieb (“Jaws”), Amy Holden Jones (“Mystic Pizza” “Indecent Proposal”), and Doug Richardson (“Bad Boys” “Die Hard 2”).
REGISTER NOW!
Register now at the link below:
https://www.raindance.org/courses/directors-foundation-certificate-la/
For questions or more information:
Tel: (323) 848-2900
Email: losangeles@raindance.org
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