Category: Film Making & Television
| Medium of instruction: | English |
| Course ID | DIR 101 |
Digital Video Production
Credit Points : 1
Award : Certificate in Digital Video Production
Overview
The Digital Video Production course offers hands – on training in Digital Movie Making that will help participants to understand event capturing, polishing and story sense. The course will take participants through the processes of: production, production and post-production while giving instructions in basic camera techniques and operations, lighting, sound recording and editing. Participants will be encouraged to create a non-fiction project to practice and develop the skills learned during the course.
Learning Objectives
1. To explore creating a story sense with captured images
2. To train in digital camera operations
3. To learn about basic camera, lighting, sound and editing
4. To look at camera and sound settings, equipment and accessories
5. To create a non-fiction project
Course Content
1. Basic Camera Functions
2. Image Capturing
3. Approach to Lighting
4. Program AE function of the Camera and Manual Settings
5. Post production
6. Camera, Lens and Sound Accessories
7. Buying Decisions
8. 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
Aditya Seth (Documentary Film Production)
Aditya Seth has been associated with the Indian media since 1986. He is an independent Short and Documentary filmmaker with a sound grounding in Theatre and Music and has been involved in the making of Short Films and TV programmes in all genres for national as well as international audiences.
He has been associated with over 500 projects as Producer/ Writer/ Director / Editor/ Consultant and Voice-Over Artist. His work includes Documentaries, Corporate Films, News Magazines, TV shows, Public Service Announcements, Audio Visuals, Television Commercials, Live Events, CD ROMs, Radio Production and Television Serials covering a diverse range of subjects such as the science programme Turning Point for Times TV, the thrillers Raaz and Kagaar for Sahara Manoranjan and Crime Patrol for Sony Entertainment Television, to name a few.
Noted documentaries include Youth and Future: The Indian Spectrum, Ek Paristhithi, a scathing indictment of the child labour problem (for Doordarshan), Paritap, a 30 minute documentary on the sexual abuse of children (for the Dept. of Women and Child Development, Govt. Of India), A Silent Revolution, a documentary for the SAARC Conference on Rural Sanitation for UNICEF and An Experience of a Hindu Temple: a documentary on the festival of Shivaratri for The Asia Society , New York.
He has been an Academic since 1997 and has been teaching Filmmaking, Scriptwriting, PR, Journalism, and Radio and Advertising in Mumbai to Indian and foreign students.
Aditya is a founder member of Vikalp: Films For Freedom and was the Treasurer of the Indian Documentary Producers Association (IDPA) from 2004 to 2008.
He is currently producing a documentary on the Nepali migrant in Mumbai and HIV entitled BAHADUR: The Accidental Brave.
Anjali Frank Agarwal (Digital Video Production)
Anjali Frank Agarwal, Faculty in the Producing Department of Whistling Woods International (WWI) has several years' experience as a multi-faceted professional in the Media industry having worked as a Journalist, Content Developer and Screenwriter.
Prior to her appointment in June 2009 as Faculty in Producing at WWI, Anjali has worked in Chennai (during 2007-2009) as a Writer and Production Coordinator with Chandamama India Ltd. (Film Division), as a Guest Lecturer in Screenplay Writing and Production Management at L V Prasad Studios Film Academy and as a Resource person for Workshops in Digital Filmmaking.
Alongside this, she also contributed as a Script Writer for Company videos / advertisement films for Studio 52 (Dubai).
Anjali's professional qualifications include a one year Advanced Diploma in Film Production at the School of Film and Media Studies, Ngee Ann University, Singapore (April 2005) after a Certificate Course in Video Filmmaking at the University of the Phillipines, Manila in 2004.
Earlier, she had completed a Post-graduate degree in Economics from Punjab University (1995-1997) and attained a Diploma in International Law and Diplomacy from the Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi (1996). She has worked as a Reporter and Writer on several international projects, including one with the UNDP, New Delhi chapter. She has developed content for media across newspapers, magazines, web, radio and screen.
Anjali has also been an accredited Artist at the All India Radio (AIR) for 4 years (1992-1996) and the President of the Debating Society during her graduate studies
Anjali believes in the creative role of a producer in the filmmaking process. As an independent producer, she is involved with development of the projects from 'concept' to 'greenlight' that is, developing stories/scripts into viable properties and then "pitching" them to the financiers.
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| When | Duration | Where | Remarks | Price |
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INR 19,854 Per Course (Taxes Included) |
| Price Notes: Course Fees Rs. 15000 + Service tax (12.36 percent) Rs.1854 + Security Deposit (20%) Rs.3000 hence, Total Fees (INR) Rs.19854. Notes to fees: - Security Deposit of 20% Course Fees is payable by students enrolling on this course. This is non-interest bearing and refundable on course completion or withdrawal, subject to deductions. - Project costs are not included in the fees. - Fee inclusive of refundable deposit, government taxes and registration fee. - Special discounts will be available for groups, WWI Alumni and Associations. - Students enrolling for three or more levels of the same course will be given special concession at the time of payment. | ||||
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.
