
Apply the rule of thirds and look room to balance the frame and direction, then use one point perspective to add depth and tension.
Plan the moving camera by drafting a floor plan, shot list, and storyboard to map blocking, camera positions, and keyframe transitions, while collaborating with performers and adapting blocking as needed.
Optimize coverage through movement with a dolly, minimizing camera setups, using pans and reverses, and blocking for cuts, illustrated by jaws' deep staging and foreground, middle ground, and background dynamics.
Use pan shots to slow the reveal of information and drip feeding while guiding the audience through gradual, camera-driven discoveries of characters and settings.
Develop cinematic reveals through panning, tilting, and tracking to gradually show characters and dialogue, with scenes tracking an actor under a desk, in a boardroom, and past a tea pour.
Master the art of technical directing demonstrates slow reveals through tracking and panning to reveal new subjects, audiences, and surprises around main actors in office scenes.
Explore how parallax creates depth by foreground objects moving faster than distant ones as the camera moves on a dolly or crane, shaping perceived speed, perspective, and shot weight.
Explore the slow dolly push in to draw the audience into a character's emotion, using motivated camera movement and blocking to tell the story.
Be a fly on the wall as we prepare for and shoot complicated scenes, explaining over 2 dozen advanced techniques that will maximize production value and optimize your time on set. Take your skills to the highest level and approach your next film with the utmost confidence.
"I would recommend this course to filmmakers of all levels. The scope and quality of the material covered is of an exceptionally high standard, and there are tons of practical takeaways to implement directly into your work. Write a script, watch this course, then go make a film!" - Pearse Healy (Director of Photography)
Throughout this Masterclass, our goal is to provide you with an all-inclusive understanding of technical directing so that planning and filming even the most complicated scene will come as second nature. Throughout this entire course, we’ll be blocking in 3D, using our six manikins. Our manikins are perfect for blocking out scenes and describing camera techniques as they’re completely expressionless, so all of the emotion and energy in the scene must be accomplished from the camera move alone – putting all emphasis on the camera technique rather than the performance. In doing this, you’ll see just how important camera work is when attaching emotion to a scene and drawing the audience into the character’s frame of mind and the action within the scene.
This class is intended for directors and DOPs of all levels - from beginners to seasoned pros who want to take their technical directing to the highest level. This class will also benefit actors who want to gain a more technical understanding, and anyone looking to cross over from other disciplines.
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I'm confident that you'll find this to be an invaluable course on technical directing, with unique insights and techniques that you won't find in any other Udemy course.
We're excited to watch you take these next steps as a director and we hope to see your work on the big screen very soon!
- The CastandHire team