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On completion of the Foundation Course, students move into their Direction specialisation. The Direction Programme aims to equip students with artistic and technical knowledge, while giving them the opportunity to develop their creative talent through a complete production experience. More so than other disciplines, Direction students are required to have a broad knowledge and mastery of many skills. An emphasis is placed on the cooperation and interaction of various disciplines and the director's ability to communicate his or her ideas, to balance the often differing demands of the writer, producer and actor. Through lectures, workshops, extensive practice and complete productions, students master: |
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- Screenplay and visual storytelling strategies
- The grammar of film and language of television
- Aesthetics
- Characterisation
- Shot breakdown and storyboarding techniques
- Production breakdown
- Casting and directing actors
- Cinematography
- Editing styles
- Artistic and technical use of sound and music
- Business procedures of filmmaking.
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Through actual productions with budgets and complete pre-production, casting and post-production, the programme absorbs students in the technical and creative demands of direction for television, feature, documentary, advertising or music films. These film exercises and projects are tightly scheduled, placing you under the same strict time constraints you will encounter in the professional world, teaching you discipline and efficiency. When not occupied with your own film exercises, you will assist other crews, resulting in a constant rotation of cooperation and collaboration. Each student will direct multiple projects that may include: |
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- Multi-camera Television Exercise
- Mise-en-scene Exercises
- Dialogue Exercises
- Advertising films
- Music videos
- Documentary including full research
- Diploma films
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| Faculty |
 Head of Department - Somnath Sen
Writer & Director of the film ‘Leela’, Somnath Sen began his career in the visual medium in 1987, as an Assistant Director in TV Serials in New Delhi, India. Since then, he has worked as Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Screenwriter and in production oriented activities in over one hundred productions including feature films, documentaries, music videos, television series and commercials in both the United States and India. After his training in the Masters program in Film Directing from USC School of Cinema-Television, Somnath moved to Mumbai, India and worked in mainstream Hindi films such as Raja Hindustani, Judwaa, Ajay, Kachche Dhage, Janam Samjha Karo and Kareeb. Somnath's first script, "67 Down" written while he was a student at the USC film school was accepted by the National Film Development Corporation. He was attached as writer to several television shows including Krishna 2000, Champions and Chilman. Later, Somnath formed Lemon Tree Films and produced and directed commercials and corporate films. Somnath has also acquired an MS in Computer Aided Design and worked as a software engineer for several years at McDonnell Douglas and Electronic Data Systems. |
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Faculty
Anil Zankar
Ashmaki Acharya
Kabir Kapoor
Shyamal Sengupta
Subhankar Ghosh
Guest Faculty*
Ashutosh Gowarikar, Karan Johar, Rajkumar Santoshi, Ramesh Sippy, Manjul Sinha, Kundan Shah, Vikas Desai, Munir Khan, Saeed Mirza, Ketan Mehta, Santosh Sivan, Rakeysh Mehra, Mahesh Bhatt
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| Eligibility |
| Minimum eligibility is a 10+2 / HSC / A-Levels or equivalent level of education. Preference will be given to graduates. |
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| Fees |
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Indian Nationals (Rs) |
| Admission Fee |
100,000 |
| Security Deposit |
100,000 |
| First Year Tuition |
450,000 |
| Second Year Tuition |
550,000 |
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