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• Directing actors 

• inside-out vs. outside-in acting techniques

• director-actor communication 

• working with actor on character development

• improvisation technique

• directing as translating character psychology into his/her behavior/action

• psychologica beat vs. psychical beat

• directing approaches to scene development: Elia Kazan vs. Mike Leigh

• world directors: Bergman, Ray, Kurosawa, Kubrick

• text analysis

1. text & subtext

2. beats

3. dramatic arc 

4. shift of power

• character development and analysis

1. conscious goal vs unconscious desire

2. characterization vs. deep character

3. character flaw

4. back-story, character flaw, and story plot causal correlation

5. given circumstances & character's emotional charge

• blocking a scene

• blocking pattern

• working with the cinematographer on the visual style

• development of a character-driven dialogue film project
  
  INSTRUCTOR:
  ROBERT TUTAK, MFA director, professor of film at the City University of New York

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• Intensive advanced workshop in cinematography--comprised of lectures, presentations, hands-on exercises, in-group assignments, it covers: 

1. Cinematography and the role of the cinematographer: - the artistic and technological elements of cinematography - how a cinematographer creates the "look" of the film - how a cinematographer changes the mood of the film 

2. Cinematography during pre-production - collabortating with the director - previsualisation: finding the visual style of the film - planning the lighting situations to achieve a certain 'look' - selecting and testing film stock & filters - identifying equipment needs
3. Cinematography during production - positioning the camera - composing the shot - setting up the lights 
4. Cinematography during post-production - using special processing - communicating with the lab - communicating with the timer/grader 

• advanced hands-on lighting exercises:

  • lighting a night interior-exterior scene  

  • lighting a daylight interior-exterior scene  

  • lighting or comedy, drama, horror

• screening & lecture-presentation

• a scene-by-scene analysis of a film – how the art, craft, and technological elements of cinematography tell the story, create the mood of the film, and help the actor deliver her character 

• development of the visual style for the character-driven dialogue film project 
  
  INSTRUCTOR:
  RYSZARD LENCZEWSKI, BAFTA-winning and OSCAR-niminated cinematographer (MY SUMMER OF LOVE, IDA)
   

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• ​location sound recording techniques (single vs. double system)

• types of microphones & pick-up patterns

• sound recorders & mixers

• boom operations

• working on the set 
  
  INSTRUCTOR:
  Staff
   

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• Scene-by-scene analysis of films made by the MASTER CLASS faculty

• Guiding Directing 2 and Cinematography 2 students through the process of development, preproduction, and production of a character-driven dialogue film
  
  INSTRUCTOR: TBA
   

Film Preproduction:

• story development

• casting

• location scouting

• pre-visualization

• budgeting & scheduling

• film crew functions

Principal Photography

• blocking

• lighting

• shooting

• working on the set: crew collaboration, set rules and ethos

Film Post-Production:

• editing hardware & software operations

• picture & sound editing techniques

• editing the dialogue film project

• sound design

• color grading
  
  INSTRUCTORS:
  MASTER WORKSHOP faculty, directing, cinematography
  RYSZARD LENCZEWSKI, cinematography, color grading
  ROBERT TUTAK, directing
  ELLA SLOBODA, acting