5) Filmmaking 101:

Working in teams, the students write, storyboard, plan, and shoot a documentary and a commercial project. They work these as editing projects (post-production) in the Digital Editing and Effects course.

Topics covered include:

• Principles of capturing pictures and sound
• Planning: concepts to storyboards
• Researching and pitching a documentary
• Pre-producing a documentary
• Shooting a documentary
• Writing and pitching commercials
• The agency and production company
• Planning, shooting and editing commercials