Film Title: West Bourke Film Highlights: This highly stylized, professional short film
contains many of the cinematic elements learnt in the Lights Film School
curriculum.
Watch as our student uses great
lighting, steady camera movements, believable acting, well composed
cinematography and professional set design to add production value to his
film.
Film Director's
Perspective & Testimonial:
Adam Haywood: Current
Student at Lights Film School
I am an Indie Film Maker from Melbourne, Australia and I enrolled in the course
at Lights Film School to increase my current knowledge in not only film making, but directing
and writing also. I have had many ideas for short films and my creative side was
not happening until I enrolled into Lights Film School.
So far I have completed two Modules in the course which has been Screenwriting
and Cinematography. I had no real concept of how to format a screenplay
correctly but also had no clue why you do such formatting in the first place.
Lights Film School answered all of these questions and certainly opened up doors
to show me the way to help assist in the understanding of how important it is to
format your screenplay correctly for when you decide to hand the script to a
Producer.
The Cinematography lectures were quite informative regarding the use
of The Rule of Thirds, Lines, 4 walls and much more. I have been very pleased
with the content of the Lectures that Lights Film School has available. There
are many external
videos of interviews with writers, examples of good framing to help assist in
the understanding of the explanations of such topics as cinematography, lighting
and basic composition.
Let me talk a little about the connection of my short film (above) to Lights
Film School. Your first
assignment is to write a short screenplay which involves a catalyst of some form
of action to keep the viewer interested. The story must also contain a clear ‘Beginning, Middle and
End'. All of this is explained in great detail in the Screenwriting
Lectures. Then you move onto your Cinematography Assignment to produce a short
film using the knowledge you have received from the lectures and edit it to the
best of your ability. The short film above is my assignment for the
screenwriting and cinematography lessons. I completed all of this after only my
second set of lectures and assignments and there are 10 lessons altogether.
I encourage all of you who have an interest in the course to jump onboard as you
will learn something. I already have but you also learn more and more each time
you produce a new project. This is a great starting point with the staff at
Lights Film School
giving really informative feedback on your assignments to further you as a
future Film Maker. I personally look forward to see what lies in store for the
rest of the course.
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