Narrative Fundamentals

GR - Graduate

Open to MFA-1 Film Directing students only. This course is taught by core FDP faculty as a hands-on, exploratory introduction to narrative filmmaking. Over the semester, students move through several modular block sessions, each several weeks long. In each, they will complete a cinematic assignment within specific parameters, working from instinct and impulse. In the final block, each student prepares the production of a 5-minute film. The course explores different methods and approaches towards making narrative work, positing the idea that process and form are inextricably linked. Its intention is to begin a dialogue about form focused on critique and exploration of the student's own voice, method and body of work.

RGFFDP - Film Directing Program Only