ost-Graduate in Visual Effects

DIGITAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES

Introduction

• Elements of Digital Media
• Principles of Digital Media
• Introduction to software used in the Digital Media industry

Design Concept

• Principles of Design
• Introduction to colour theory

Digital Design

• Introduction to Graphic Designing
• Colour systems (RGB, grey scale, CMYK) and file formats
• Creating and manipulating bitmap and vector images
• Creating Backgrounds/ Matte painting
• Scanning, storing and transporting images
• Enlargement and reduction, resolution, colour depth, image size and file size
• Palette, mode and image attributes
• Transformation of objects, reshaping and applying effects and filters
• Paths & Type
• Masking
• Layer Concept
• Understanding Colour & Colour Correction
• Filters & Texture

PRE-PRODUCTION

Drawing & Painting

• Lines, shapes, colour, value, texture, scale, and composition
• Introduction to painting
• Use of drawing in painting
• Equipment and materials
• Colour mixing
• Geometry
• Matte Painting

Figure Drawing

• Gesture drawing,
• Quick Action drawings
• Linear gesture drawing

• Drawing with mass, Proportions, structure

 Perspective Drawing

• Fundamentals of perspective
• One point, two-point, three point perspective.
• Special vanishing points,
• Mixed perspective and ellipses.
• Creation of basic three-dimensional shapes using freehand techniques.
• Advanced  perspective concepts

Storyboarding

• Story Concepts
• Preparing storyboards from Screenplay / Script

Claymation

• Converting drawings into a physical model
• Techniques of Claymation

Cinematography

• Film Production: Shot, Sequence, Scene, Basic Composition
• Image size, Camera Movement
• Films available, various stocks, magazines, Lab Standard
• Lighting techniques, use of shadows, architectural lighting & set lighting Analog Vs Digital Image, Comparative analysis, compatibility
• Documentary film, Narrative Film, Closed form versus Open form
• Principles of still camera
• Camera composition, choice of lenses, camera movement, staging & blocking
• Rigging and pre-lighting

Direction

• Directing the camera
• Directing the actor
• Making of narrative and non-narrative documentary films
• The aesthetic, structural and stylistic aspects of directing

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