Curriculum

Directing Motion Pictures

Film Sense: The alphabet, grammar, traditions, genres, evolving styles and trends of visual storytelling in cinema
Film and Society: Exhibiting motion pictures to mass audiences

COURSE OUTLINE
July 2011 - June 2012

Classes on Tuesdays and Saturdays, 2pm-7pm
Group work, drills and field trips to be arranged

• The Motion Picture Language
• The Humanities
• Film and Society
• Film History and Theory
• Principles of Motion Picture Photography and Editing
• Film Scoring 1
  
• Sound Recording
• Screenings and Analyses of Motion Picture Features
• Visual Narrative Techniques
• Screenwriting
• Directing
• Production Techniques, from Script breakdown to Post Production
• Production Procedures and Protocol
• Business Development and Management
• Strategies for Marketing and Distribution

Tuition cost: Php 145,000

EARLY PAYMENT DISCOUNTS (based on regular tuition rate of Php145,000.00)

   1. Full payment upon enrollment (10k discount) – Php 130,000.00, on or before May 15, 2011
  

   2. Semestral payments (5k discount) -

         Php20,000.00 reservation fee upon acceptance

                       50,000.00 on or before May 15, 2011

                   70,000.00 PDC for December 5, 2011 to be submitted

                                       on or before May 15, 2010 

EASY INSTALLMENT SCHEME (0% interest)

MDAFI is offering an easy-payment scheme for accepted Filipino applicants into its Basic Course in Motion Picture Language as follows:

20k upon enrollment plus eleven (11) post-dated monthly checks in the amount of Php11,364.00 each, beginning July 26, 2011 to May 26, 2012.