Short Course - Production Design (Level 1)

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Starting from: INR 22,472 Per Course (Taxes Included) Request Info

Credit Points : 0.5

Award :Certificate Production Design – Level 1
   

Overview

From early in pre-production, the production designer collaborates with the director and director of photography to establish the visual feel and specific aesthetic needs of the project. The production designer guides key personnel in other departments such as the costume designer, the key hair and make-up artists and the locations manager (among others) to establish a unified visual appearance to the film.

The Production Design – Level1 course offers a unique specialized training in the basic responsibilities of a Production Designer, with respect to the aesthetic aspects and practical skills needed to create the visual impact of a film.

Learning Objectives 

- To comprehend the importance of pre production – research and script breakdown

- To learn about the significance of colors, props, costumes, locations etc.

- To understand components of set construction

- To learn different components of set dressing

Course Content

- Components of Production Design

- Defining job responsibilities of a Production Designer’s team

- Script Study

- Script Breakdown

- Research skills

- Character Study

- Color Theory

- Prop selection

- Elementary principles of Costume designing

- Elementary principles of Prosthetics

- Locations vs Constructed Sets

- Workflow of set construction

- Budgeting

- Set Dressing

- 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

Salim Arif

Salim Arif, HOD, Production Design at WWI, is an alumnus of the National School of Drama (NSD), New Delhi, having specialised in Direction. He has also researched on the interaction between traditional and contemporary Indian theatre. Beginning as a Costume Designer on prestigious productions for television such as Shyam Benegal’s Bharat Ek Khoj, Gulzar’s Mirza Ghalib, Nirja Guleri’s Chandrakanta and Chandraprakash Dwivedi’s Chanakya etc., Salim Arif has gone on to be a Film and Stage Designer. He has worked on films such as Ketan Mehta’s Sardar (1993), Gulzar’s Maachis (1996) and Hu Tu Tu (1999), Govind Nihalani’s Thakshak (1999) and Mani Ratnam’s Guru. Innovative in approach, and exploring new contents for staging, he is one of the noted directors of the Hindi theatre scene in India, with numerous plays such as Aapki Soniya, Kachche Lamhe,  Kharaashein and Lakeerein and events like Octave 2010 to his credit. Salim Arif also teaches as Visiting Faculty at institutes like the National Institute of Fashion Technology, (NIFT), National Institute of Design (NID) and the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII).

Sabyasachi Bose

Sabyasachi Bose, Faculty in Production Design at WWI, graduated from the Government College of Art and Craft, Calcutta (now, Kolkata) in 1992. In 1994, he began his career in the field of Production Design under the tutelage of Bijon Das Gupta. He then went on to work with Sanjay Dhabade and finally with Samir Chanda.

Sabyasachi has been involved in film projects that include Raja (1995), Barsaat (1995), Gupt- The Hidden Secret (1997), Judaai (1997), Chocolate – A Deep Dark Secret (2005) and Krrish (2006), besides TV serials such as Chandrakanta, the theatre production, Legend of Rama, along with shows such as Manikchand Filmfare Awards, Hum Ek Hai, and ad shows for companies like Samsung, Onida, BPL, MRF Tyres, Apollo Tyres, Tata, Britannia, Times of India, Anandalok etc.

Simultaneously, as an artist, he has continued to participate in many prestigious group shows such as, 'Exhibition' organised by 'Indian International Art Centre' at Kolkata in1992, 'Open Air-1994' organised by Birla Academy of Art and Culture at Kolkata, 'Annual Art Exhibition- 1996-97' organised by The Art Society of India (Mumbai), 'Annual Art Exhibition' organised by Indian Society of Oriental Art at Kolkata in 1999, '9th Harmony Show' organised by the Art Trust, co-organised by the Textile Division, Relience Industries at Mumbai (2004) and 'Art Watch' organised by Galerie 88 at Kolkata (2004).

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.