This course is designed to immerse students in all aspects of digital filmmaking. Students will generate ideas and develop them into shooting scripts. They will then learn to do pre-production work and execute the production using digital audio-visual medium as a form of expression. During production, students will learn the basics of directing, acting, cinematography, lighting, audio recording, art direction, and simple post-production techniques, etc. In addition, students will be introduced to virtual production, including core concepts, studio safety, and a simplified workflow for integrating real-time environments with camera and lighting as part of innovation processes in digital production.

However, the emphasis of this introductory course will be placed on visual storytelling (i.e., non-verbal). By the end of the semester, students should be able to do cinematic storytelling using film language adopted by classical cinema, and demonstrate basic awareness of virtual production workflows and safety suitable for future advanced study.