Creative Courses in <span class="text-transparent bg-clip-text bg-gradient-to-r from-red-500 to-red-800">Film and Media

Acting for Film

Students are taught how to successfully understand, internalize and relate to a piece:Students are introduced to basic approaches to acting that will strengthen their ability to play a dramatic piece naturally, honestly and believable. Classes include exercises in improvisation, scene breakdowns and monologues. Students are asked to delve deep to explore physical and emotional awareness in preparation to deliver a dramatic piece that takes them far beyond their comfort zones.Students examine awareness techniques using voice, senses, and relaxation. Honing their ability to properly analyze a scene by understanding motivation, character identity and action.

Acting for TV I & II

Acting for TV I & II

Online hands-on training workshop that trains you on how to act for Film and Television.This course introduces students to the best online acting curriculum in Nigeria, the DCA environment provides students with the opportunity to connect, broaden, and reimagine an actor's creative workspace. The course works out, renews, stretches, explores, and maintains an ongoing diagnostic relationship with the acting profession; where actors explore internal and external resources for building self-awareness, developing imagination and concentration, recognize their emotional truth, learn the actor’s vocabulary, and demonstrate the ability, to be honest, and committed in their Acting. This course features advanced practice with complex scenes and exercises to help the actor compete and thrive as a professional. The student expands their repertoire, strengthens their technique, and develops reliable tools for solving challenges outside the actor's comfort zone.

Cinematography and Set Lighting

Cinematography and Set Lighting

The creative choices made by the cinematographer drives the visual impact of a film. Understanding the importance of operating camera and lighting equipment is essential in producing a final product. This course introduces the creative and technical challenges of motion picture photography. Students learn how to express mood and story using basic photographic and lighting principles.

Digital Filmmaking I & II

Digital Filmmaking I & II

Students learn the fundamentals of digital video and audio recording. This course teaches the practical aspects of digital filmmaking and helps the student build upon the foundations of film theory and apply it to an experiential learning environment with the support of peers. Students will develop an understanding of the creative use of sound, camera and post-production techniques for their own film projects.

Filmmaking and Directing

Filmmaking and Directing

Film Directors create an overall vision for the film. Realizing this vision includes overseeing the artistic and technical elements of film production as well as directing the shooting timetable, meeting deadlines and adhering to budgets. The director spends the most time on a project and is the one position that requires an intimate involvement during every stage of film production. Since the film director depends on the successful cooperation of many different creative individuals with possibly strongly contradicting artistic ideals and visions, he or she will learn conflict resolution skills in order to mediate whenever necessary.

Post production

Post production

This course aims to help the student develop their knowledge of post-production workflows, enhance their skills in VFX, colour grading and sound design within a variety of cutting edge software packages.

Post-Production/Editing

Post-Production/Editing

This intensive course is designed to take you from a beginner to a highly skilled editor and post-production professional. You will learn the fundamentals of non-linear editing, color grading, sound design, and visual effects, utilizing industry-standard software. Develop a comprehensive understanding of post-production workflows and build an impressive portfolio.

Producing and Business of Filmmaking I & II

Producing and Business of Filmmaking I & II

A unique online program that will prepare you to take on the business aspects of the television and film production industry. This course aims to expose the student to the challenges of producing from the inception and sale of a project through pre-production, production, and post-production to ultimate distribution. It will prepare the student to take on the business aspects of the television and film production industry. Today's film and television producers need more than just good ideas and a crew to get their projects off the ground. They need people with the skills to handle the financing, management, legal, distribution and business affairs. That's what this course is all about. As potential entrepreneurial producers, the class will study techniques in leveraging limited amounts of time and capital into maximum results; while attempting to balance unbridled optimism against sensible business logic. The course will emphasize the importance of an entrepreneurial spirit and a global outlook. The student will explore the industry's legal, financial and regulatory frameworks and develop skills necessary for producing in the current African and international market.

Producing and the Business of Filmmaking

Producing and the Business of Filmmaking

The film producer has the formidable role of ensuring a film project is completed on time, within budget, and it adheres to agreed artistic and technical standards.This course aims to expose the student to the challenges of producing from the inception and sale of a project through pre--production, production, and post-production to ultimate distribution. Students will learn typical producer functions such as when to use publicity, how to deal with creative egos, what to do if the marketing of your project is ill-advised and more. As potential entrepreneurial producers, the class will study techniques in leveraging limited amounts of time and capital into maximum results; while attempting to balance unbridled optimism against sensible business logic.

Screenwriting

Screenwriting

Students will learn how to create a world, evoking emotion and overall getting the audience to care enough to take the journey and see it to the end. How to use words as your medium, students of the writing intensive will explore the processes of visual storytelling by working with other writers to create scripts Through a series of technical and writing exercises, students will learn about structure, characterization, dialogue, subtext, subplots, exploring themes and exposition by utilizing established screenplay formats. The course will involve studying great films and scripts Participating in critiques and the writing and revising of original material.

Screenwriting for TV and film

Screenwriting for TV and film

This course introduces students to the best online screenwriter’s curriculum, providing students with an environment where they are provided with the opportunity to connect, broaden, and reimagine a creative screenwriter’s workspace. The course is a perfect introduction to the fantastic world of film and TV writing, from the fundamentals of the craft down to the rewriting process, exploring the easier ways to learn how to write a page-turning script. Students will learn from a mixture of basic theory on a narrative structure, screenplay formatting, script analysis, dialogue, subtext, exposition, elements of a scene, character arcs, and theme. They will explore key principles as usually expressed in great films, then immediately apply these concepts. Videos, articles, and discussions will offer the opportunity to learn and engage with other learners on key concepts and ideas.

Sound Design and Scoring

Sound Design and Scoring

Scoring is composing for film and TV is an ever-changing landscape. Many of the jobs are now in the video game industry, and those are often the projects with the biggest budgets. This course will cover the following: Critical Analysis of existing Film Scores: Genres, Codes, Moods & Stylistic Expression Definition/Specifics of Musical Syntax: harmonic/melodic usage, instrumentation, orchestration, use of synthesizers/sampling, etc. Underlying Technical Demands and Processes: Spotting Sessions – Timings – Post-Production Flow Filmic world: narrative, visual, aural, FX, genre, historical/period. Scoring Assignments – preparation for — and critiques of: a) Scores for Film Clips Technology and Music Software Understanding the aesthetic implications of using software tools Learn to use the software to work effectively Students will create a realistic-sounding orchestra with high-quality computer samples Compose a score in a style that fits both your own musical flavor and that of the show Learn how to Manage Your Time Address the matrix of directorial vision and the visual, narrative, and dramatic world of a film This course will examine a broad range of musical approaches and those requirements necessary for composing music for film and multimedia. Cultural, cinematic, and musical codes will be discussed and critiqued through critical analyses of seminal scores, scoring assignments, and discussions. As Film Music is nowadays highly dependent on technology, the course will provide an introduction to the use of Computer software and tools to produce music. Students will learn to compose stylistically appropriate music for diversity audiovisual scenes. Learn to utilize a library of existing clips to create a matrix of film-specific musical and technical skills. Students will assimilate significant aesthetic approaches in their scores that are concurrent with contemporary aesthetics.