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Distance degree programs for Adults & Professionals.

Film Direction & Production Online - Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.

 

Faculty of Arts & Humanities via distance learning

 

Faculty of Arts & Humanities

 

 

Film Direction & Production via distance learning

 

This program highlights the major responsibilities of a film director explicitly: on-screen image creation, camera movements, lighting, actors' direction, dialogue, story-boarding, and scene breakdown. It explores the relationship between the director and all the elements of production and post-production. Also, it describes the procedures required for running a smooth film production and details the logistics needed to complete and deliver a finished motion picture. This program advises on the cost-effective methods to reach the level of emotional and visual impacts demanded by today's film industry.

 

Academic Supervisor : Pedro Jose Riba Rueda
More information about this academic supervisor at Bircham University Human Network. More info...

 

Film Direction & Production Online via distance learning

Specialist, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor - Film Direction & Production.

 

This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's & Ph.D. (Doctor) Degree Programs. This academic program is designed at the postgraduate level (Master’s or Doctoral). This module may also be adapted to complete the course requirements of Specialist, Expert Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree. A further option is the enrollment into each of the courses listed within this specialization module. This module may be combined or completed with other modules from this faculty. For example: Audiovisual Communication - Journalism - Mass Communication Management - Media & Communications - Organizational Communication - Social Media Management .

 

Specialist - Expert Diploma - Film Direction & Production Online
Tuition Fee: 1.050 Euros (1.350 US$) ... 1.470 Euros (1.890 US$).
Specialist - Expert Diploma Online: 15 ... 21 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Film Direction & Production via distance learning = 39 Academic credits - Select 5 courses for the online diploma of Specialist or 7 courses for the Expert Diploma from the total of courses from the specialization module.

 

Bachelor's Degree - Film Direction & Production Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 3.510 Euros (4.420 US$) ... Max. 6.800 Euros (8.700 US$).
Bachelor's Degree Online: 130 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Film Direction & Production via distance learning = 39 Academic credits + 40 credits in General Education (may be transferred from previous education and professional experience) + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Audiovisual Communication.

 

Master's Degree - Film Direction & Production Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 4.680 Euros (6.120 US$) ... Max. 7.020 Euros (9.180 US$).
Master's Degree Online: 36 ... 54 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Film Direction & Production via distance learning = 39 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Audiovisual Communication. + 13 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).

 

Doctor Ph.D. Degree - Film Direction & Production Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 5.850 Euros (7.650 US$) ... Max. 9.360 Euros (12.240 US$).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree Online: 45 ... 72 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Film Direction & Production via distance learning = 39 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Audiovisual Communication. + 18 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).

 

 

Payment plans are available upon request up to 36 monthly installments. More info...

 

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BIU adapts each Distance Learning Higher Education degree program to the needs of each student. More info...

 

 

Film Direction & Production Online

Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 academic credits):


1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credits (30 hours of study).
You may study any subject as an independent online continuing education course. More info...

 

Cinema Language
This course explores the nature and functions of film, including narrative and non-narrative approaches to film communication. Cinema language considers the components of film expression: composition, movement, editing, sound, directing, and acting. It also reviews the film's relationship to other arts and media, and its role as an instrument of social reflection and change.
Academic Supervisor: Pedro Jose Riba Rueda

Narrative Development
This course illustrates the means of story-telling and integrates practical writer rules with theoretical models based on literary constructions. It explains the construction of a solid narrative combined with the creation of believable, compelling characters that propel that narrative forward. It finally helps to find personal stories that inspire dramatic narrative.
Academic Supervisor: Yemi D. Ogunyemi

Theory of Drama & Comedy
This course reveals the actions and events that create the structure of a dramatic and humorist texts. It presents plays composed by various writers, each representing a different style. Why do we laugh and/or cry? What is humor and what is drama? Why does one person laugh and/or cry at something when another person doesn't?
Academic Supervisor: Yemi D. Ogunyemi

Script & Screen Writing
This course explores the art, craft, and business of script writing from both theoretical and practical perspectives. It examines the process of screenwriting from concept to character and from opening scene to finished script. It pinpoints the structural and stylistic elements essential to good screenplays and focuses on style and language, format, structure, location, and characterization. It presents a step-by-step and comprehensive technique for writing scripts.
Academic Supervisor: Pedro Jose Riba Rueda

Scene Analysis
This course examines the creation, staging, and coverage of dramatic events through the study and analysis of structure, plot, character, and the action dialectics of stories and scenes. It examines the relationship between story, scenes and structure, and the grammar and syntax of visual story-telling.
Academic Supervisor: Pedro Jose Riba Rueda

Movie Budget & Planning
This course reviews scripts from the point of view of a film producer. It teaches how to plan and develop a pre-production budget. It also reviews the estimated budget and the planning flow of films from production to post-production and considers the completed film exhibition.
Academic Supervisor: Pedro Jose Riba Rueda

Linear & Non Linear Editing
This course examines the aesthetics and techniques of editing. It discusses the formats of films and videos, as well as the processing of digital images and non-linear editing.
Academic Supervisor: Ricardo Miralles Damm

Cinematography
This course explores film photography: camera angles, continuity, cutting, close-ups, and composition. Cinematography is crucial to the aesthetic aspects of films and to the process of revealing a story through images.
Academic Supervisor: Pedro Jose Riba Rueda

Film Direction
This course offers advice on achieving the emotional and visual impacts demanded by today's motion picture industry. It considers the wide range of responsibilities of film directors, their relationships with involved people (crew and artists), the film creative process, camera movements, lighting, dialogue, story-boarding, and scene breakdown. It explores the relationship between the director and all the elements necessary to make a film, from production to post-production.
Academic Supervisor: Pedro Jose Riba Rueda

Digital Media Production
This course examines the use of multimedia material (audio, MIDI, graphics, and video) from a production point of view. It explains how to undertake a digital multimedia production and the manipulation tasks to create or modify a multimedia project.
Academic Supervisor: Ricardo Miralles Damm

Film Production
This course explains the daily activities necessary to smoothly run film production. It reviews what must be considered and accomplished before a single camera can roll and the logistics that are required to complete and deliver a finished picture.
Academic Supervisor: Pedro Jose Riba Rueda

Digital Production
This course explains digital production, including digitization, compression, digital compositing, nonlinear editing, and on-set digital production. It also relates traditional and digital film production and editing processes. It details how each stage of the traditional filmmaking process is being improved by digital processes, and how today`s filmmakers are using digital techniques to enhance their creativity and to realize their imagination.
Academic Supervisor: Ricardo Miralles Damm

Directing Actors
This course presents a method for establishing creative and collaborative relationships with actors. It discusses how to get the most out of rehearsals, how to solve the problems of poor performances, and how to give efficient instructions. It discusses what constitutes a good performance, what actors want from directors, what directors do wrong, how to analyze dramatic scripts, how actors work, and how directors and actor relate.
Academic Supervisor: Pedro Jose Riba Rueda

 

 

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Film Direction & Production Online via distance learning

Recommended Professional References.

Joining the proper association is the best way to become an updated professional.

 

Bircham International University graduates may join many professional associations. Membership requirements for each association may vary depending on the degree program, specialization and graduate resume en each occasion. BIU can not guarantee membership in all instances. BIU does not intermediate in these procedures. Bircham International University provides a list of available memberships and professional references from each faculty where some BIU graduates may belong. Contact directly the ones you select. More info...

 

AAPCA - Association des Administrateurs de Production Cinéma et Audiovisuel
ABC - Associação Brasileira de Cinematografia
AFCI - Association of Film Commissioners International
APIMA - Asociación de Productores Independientes de Medios Audiovisulaes
APPA - Asociación de Profesionales de la Producción Audiovisual
BECTU - Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematography and Theatre Union
CICT - Conseil International du Cinéma, de la Télévision et de la Communication Audiovisuelle
FERA - Federation of European Film Directors
FESAC - Fédération des Entreprises du Spectacle vivant, de la Musique, de l’Audiovisuel et du Cinéma
FIAPF - International Federation of Film Producers' Associations
FIPCA - Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos y Audiovisuales
ICFT - International Council for Film Television and Audiovisual Communication
IMIS - International Moving Image Society
ISPA - International Society for the Performing Arts
PACT - Producers Alliance for Film and TV
WFTV - Women in Film And Television
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Admission requirements - Film Direction & Production

Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.

 

For official admission status at Bircham distance education university; you need to send in a filled out, dated, and signed official Application for Admission. You may download this application form from the website or request it by email or mail. Please send this application and enclosed documents to our address. You may also submit this application and attached documents by email in a PDF Format. More info...

 

Bircham International University issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the distance learning degree program's major. Bircham University can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission. More info...

 

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METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: Distance Learning Higher Education

 

This distance learning education program is completed by a traditional correspondence instruction method. Once you sign up for the course, Bircham International University will send you (to your mailing address) the suggested textbooks. After reading the book, you will be asked to write a 20 to 35 pages report that reflect your understanding of the book. This report is equivalent to the exam and can be submitted by email or mail. Bircham International University will evaluate your written work. If passed, BIU will issue the corresponding diploma. For more instructions about BIU pedagogy, tutoring, and evaluation, please read our distance learning education study guide. More info...

 

Students enrolling into this distance education program should be aware that:
1. Location: Bircham International University needs a functional geographical location to ship the book and materials for successful completion of this program of study.
2. Communication: Email, courier, phone are key communication instruments with Bircham University that play an important role in the progress and support of this program of study.
3. Capacity: Any impediment, physical or psychological, to read a book and write a report must be communicated to Bircham International University prior to enrollment into this distance learning program.
4. Technology: No specific technology is required to complete this distance education program.
5. Language: Book reading and report writing in other language than English must be requested (and approved by BIU) prior to enrollment in any distance learning program.
6. Discrimination: There is no discrimination with respect to race, color, gender, beliefs or religion.
7. Age: Check the admission requirements for each distance education degree program. More info...

 

Duration - Film Direction & Production Online via distance learning

For a program of 21 credits, the estimated time for completion is 21 weeks. For 45 credits, the estimated time for completion will be 45 weeks, and so on. Calculations are approximate. The length of each distance learning degree program is calculated based on an average of 15 hours of learning per week. It also depends on the number of validated credits from previous knowledge and the level of commitment to the studies. More info...

 

All information related to the distance learning degree programs is in English, although you may, upon request and approval, submit the required assignments in other languages.

 

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Faculty of Arts & Humanities via distance learning

Film Direction & Production Online

Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.

 

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