Short Course - Motion Picture Production Planning

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Motion Picture Production Planning
 

Course code : PROD101 - 1

Credit Points : 1

Award : Certificate in Tools and Techniques for Motion Picture Production Planning.

Duration : 40 Hrs over 4 weeks

Eligibility : 18 years and above

Overview

Tools and Techniques for Motion Picture Production Planning course offers a unique training in the software that assists in creating a production plan on the basis of a script. Considering the globalization and corporatization of the media industry this course is well designed to meet the emerging demands. Participants will be taught the importance of a correctly formatted script and how to extract a detailed resource breakdown through various software functions. The course is aimed at developing skill sets that will enable students to acquire professional understanding of different production needs and their planning.

Learning Objectives 

1. To execute a well formatted script on Final Draft

2. To learn detailed Script Breakdowns

3. To create Strip-Board derived from a script breakdown

4. To explore the different requirements of script breakdown and scheduling

5. To train in scheduling Cast, Sets & Equipments

6. To prepare a EP scheduling docket with respect to the director’s requirements and ideas

 

Course Content

1. Script Formatting

2. Importance of script details

3. Script Breakdown and Strip Boarding

4. Scheduling a Strip Board

5. Scheduling for different priorities

6. Deriving per day requirements

7. Day out of days reports

8. Contingency Planning and Re-Scheduling

9. EP scheduling Docket preparation

10. Project

Each Class will be 30% Theory and 70% Demonstration; will have Supervised Hands On sessions with a follow-up project assignment to monitor learning curve.

The Production of the feature

Course code : PROD101 - 2

Credit Points :1

Award : Certificate in Tools and Techniques for Motion Picture Production Planning.

Duration: 40 Hrs over 4 weeks

Eligibility: For Executive Producers/ Line producers/ chief AD's/ first AD's/ Production executives.

 

Learning Objectives 

1. To make the first Budget from the first schedule of the film.

2. To learn detailed line production

3. To create schedule depending on the film budget.

4. To explore the different requirements of Executive Production and Line production

5. To train in line production and executive production

6. To prepare a EP budget docket with respect to the Schedule of the film.

Course Content

1. Line production.

2. Importance of negotiation/ location recce's/ permissions/ production design.

3. Budget break down sequence wise and reworking the schedule budget wise.

4. Locking the schedule of the film with production elements.

5. Executive production for different budget movies.

6. Planning/ negotiating for day to day requirements/ vendors/ crew and cast/ contracts/ trouble shooting

7. Contingency Planning and Reworking the budget

8. EP budgeting Docket preparation

9. Project

Each Class will be 30% Theory and 70% Demonstration; will have Supervised Hands On sessions with a follow-up project assignment to monitor learning curve.

Course Heads

Rabiya Chopra
Rabia Chopra is currently working at Anurag Kashyap Films and Sikhya Entertainment headed by ace filmmaker Anurag Kashyap and Producer Guneet Monga, Rabia Chopra has been a member of the Guest faculty at Whistling Woods International (WWI) since 2008 till present. She has been a visiting lecturer in the Producing Department.

After completing her Business of Film and Television course at WWI, she entered the arena of Media and Entertainment as a line producer for numerous television commercials. A multifaceted individual, she has worked in areas of casting, line production, script development and has also produced numerous films.

Head Operations, Casting Networks Inc.
Line Producer on a corporate film for Oberoi Realty Estates.
Co-producer for a corporate film for Jute Cottage, Bangalore.
Executive Producer for the first schedule of a fiction TV show with Optimystix.
Project Manager on Sankalan with Baiscope Entertainment and Mumbai Mantra.
Worked on the Scheduling and Budgeting for a Documentary, Religions of India with an independent production house based in Delhi.
Worked on Pre-production of the feature film Dev D with filmmaker Anurag Kashyap.
Line Producer on a feature film with Bharatbala Productions; worked on Movie Magic Break-down and Scheduling.
Line Producer on a documentary City Beasts made in December 2006, by Kurt Inderbitzin Productions.
Produced 4 short films, including Tying Strings and Shame (20 min, Feb. 2008) which was screened at Pune International Film Festival (PIFF, Jan. 2009) and selected for the 'Short Film Corner' at Cannes Film Festival in May 2009.

Vishal Gandhi
Vishal Gandhi has specialized in Producing ( 2006-08) Film Making course from Whistling Woods International.He has completed his Feature Film writing course under Kamlesh pandey ( writer Rang de basanti) and Ben reki ( Hollywood writer)(2009).He has worked as an Executive producer for India’s leading Production house Red Chillies Entertainments (2008-2010) on various projects. As a freelancer he has worked with Moser baer entertainment, Rose entertainment, Moon bean entertainment, Triple A entertainment.His short films have been showcased at Cannes, Kala khoda and have also won at various Film festivals.He Started Blue Elephant Entertainment (2010), into Content development, Line production, Production services.Currently he is writing a feature film for a known feature film director. He is Visiting Faculty at WWI .

Whistling Woods International

The Institute

Founded by one of the India’s leading filmmakers – Subhash Ghai and is promoted by Mukta Arts Limited & Filmcity Mumbai. Whistling Woods International(WWI) is Asia’s largest Film, Television, Animation and Media Arts institute, providing world-class education in all technical and creative aspects of filmmaking and television.

Whistling Woods has also been rated amongst the top 10 film schools in the world by ‘The Hollywood Reporter’, alongwith institutes like NYU Tisch, NFTS, FAMU & AFTRS. WWI was the youngest school to be featured in that list.

The WWI Mumbai campus is located inside Mumbai’s film & television production hub ‘Filmcity’, and offers courses that vary in duration from 1 year to 3 years, both full-time and part time in nature. All the major specializations of the Media & Entertainment industry are catered to, including Acting, Animation, Cinematography, Direction, Editing, Producing, Screenwriting, Sound and Media Studies. WWI also offers India’s first MBA in Media & Entertainment and India’s first MBA in Media & Communication.

The full-time faculty of WWI is a body of academics and renowned industry professionals like Subhash Ghai, Rajen Kothari, M Krishhnamurthy, Rob Reece, Anjum Rajabali, Rakesh Ranjan, Ashmaki Acharya, Somnath Sen, Samar Khan, Prashant Naik, Yusuf Mehta, Dhananjay Khore with regular guest lectures by leading Indian & International filmmakers, actors & technicians like Ashutosh Gowarikar (Director of oscar-nominated ‘Lagaan’), Farhan Akhtar, Ashok Amritraj, Shyam Benegal, Naseeruddin Shah, Danny Boyle (academy award winner for Slumdog Millionaire), Rajkumar Hirani, Rakeysh Mehra, Vishal Bharadwaj, Farah Khan, Nagesh Kukunoor, Shelley Page (head of international outreach for Dreamworks Animation), and several more. Students at Whistling Woods, hence, have a unique opportunity to interact on one-on-one basis with some of the most successful professionals in the Indian film industry.

The courses at WWI are designed to ensure that the students’ learning is collaborative and industry oriented. The curriculum at WWI is a unique hybrid of theoretical and practical aspects and ensuring that the creative dovetails well with the business aspects. All students also undergo rigorous study in several co-curricular faculties like Film Appreciation, International Art Literature Culture, Production Design & Music.

These unique elements in the curriculum & the teaching methodology have seen WWI’s student body growing over three times over the past three years. Further, almost 15% of the student body now comprises of International students, from the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Italy, France, Holland, Vietnam and others who choose WWI over the multiple film-studies options available in their own countries.

The Institute is also highly committed to ensuring that its students move into the industry in creative and rewarding areas of employment. WWI alumni are currently working at several leading media organisations like Aamir Khan Productions, Annapurna Studios, BIG Animation, Balaji Telefilms, Dharma Productions, Dreamworks, Excel Entertainment, Fox Star Studios India, Mukta Arts Ltd, Percept Picture Company, Prime Focus, Rajshri, Red Chillies Entertainment, Reliance Mediaworks, Rhythmn & Hues, Star TV, Technicolour, Walkwater Film, UTV Motion Pictures, Yashraj Films and several more.

In early 2011, The Sony Media technology Center – a global Center of Excellence established by Sony Corp. & WWI and located at the WWI campus in Filmcity, Mumbai was inaugurated by Sir Howard Stringer (Chairman, CEO & President, Sony Corp.). Sony has recognised WWI as a leader in the Media & Entertainment education sector in Asia, decided to partner with the institute for setup of the same. This follows Sony’s two other centers in London & LA and is the only one that has been setup in association with another organization, the first two being standalone centers. The Sony Media technology Center (SMTC) at WWI will focus on new and emerging technology in the fields of High Definition filmmaking, 3D filmmaking, High Definition Exhibition and HD Broadcast. Sony has equipped the WWI Mumbai campus with the latest technology in both HD filmmaking & 3D filmmaking and will also be stationing on campus their global subject matter experts from whom WWI students would learn a great deal.

In 2010, WWI was accepted as a full member of CILECT (Centre International de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision) – a global association of film schools, which lays very high standards on admitting members (there are only 150 members of CILECT). This membership has enabled huge expansion in WWI’s international operations with student & faculty exchanges been planned with the best film schools in the world. In the past as well, WWI has initiated affiliations with several global film schools, including first-ever-in-India activities like International student co-productions. Some of the schools that we have undertaken these activities with are Deakin & Griffith in Australia, Bradford College UK, Syracuse University USA & NYU Tisch Asia.

In a major step in secondary education in India, WWI was invited to partner with India’s premier High School Board - the CBSE board by the Ministry of Human Resource Development - Government of India to design a Media Studies curriculum for the country’s primary High School board (the CBSE board). WWI has prepared the curriculum, teaching methodology & is undertaking teacher-training for the ‘Media Studies’ elective in the 11th & 12th grade.

With the Mumbai campus operational since July 2006 and the student body having grown from 90 to 350 over 3 years, WWI is strongly looking at expansion both in terms of course verticals and campuses.

The above is just a snapshot of what Whistling Woods International has achieved in the short span of five years and the institution strongly marches on its way to fulfilling it’s goal – to be the institute of choice for media education globally.