FILM 250 Fundamentals of Production
Instructor
Derek Redmond
redmond@queensu.ca
Course Materials
Note: No Friday labs from now until Reading Week. Optional workshop on using the crane and dolly, this Friday, 3 February, at 10:30 A.M.
- Course Outline for Fall-Winter 2011-2012
- Calendar of Due Dates, Winter 2012
- Stills and downloads of the FILM 250 Documentaries, Fall 2011
- Stills and downloads of 250 films from previous years
- Information on Personal Computers for Film Courses
- Kingston weather forecast and sunrise/sunset times
- Canon XH-A1 Camera Review
- Canon XH-A1 Camera Setup Checklist
- Canon XH-A1 User Manual (Right-click or Control-click and select "Download" to save the 6 MB PDF)
- Blank Production Slate for slating footage
- Video Equipment Checklist for location shooting
- Blank Performance Release Form (as an RTF file openable by any word processor.)
- Focus on Safety: Safe Work practices for Film and Television Production (1.5 MB PDF)
- Celtx Pre-Production Software (Mac/Windows/Linux)
- CeltxWiki Manual
- How to Format a Screenplay
- DUMPS: Directing Unsuccessful Motion Picture Shorts
- Preproduction Forms -- Download the forms for Breakdown Sheet, Location Scouting, Casting and One Line Schedule (this is a Zip archive of RTF files openable by any word processor.)
Assignments
(Links will be added as the course progresses.)
- Final Project Proposal
- Directing Exercise
- Editing Exercise
- Final Project Script & Storyboard -- revised to include Producer's preproduction package.
- Documentary Project
- 16mm Exercise
- Lighting Exercise
Lecture Notes and Illustrations
(Links will be added as the course progresses.)
- Camerawork:
- Continuity:
- Video Editing:
- Lighting:
- Colour Temperature
- Four Variables and the Key Light
- Quality of Light
- Steps for Lighting
- Lighting for Night
- Lowel EDU lighting demonstrations
- Sound Recording:
- Types of Microphones
- Microphone Demonstration Video (21MB QuickTime)
- Preproduction:
- 16mm Camera: