If you are fond of photography and storytelling, you can perhaps do a course in cinematography at the ZEFT Film School in Chennai. This will help you to acquire the requisite technical and professional skills and make you an expert in the shortest time duration possible. To join this course all you need is a passion for the above.
Cinematography – What It Is
Cinematography can be termed as the art of motion-picture photography. A cinematographer may also be referred to as the director of photography of a film or TV show. It may also be some live action show. The cinematographer makes all the decisions regarding the technical and artistic details that are image related. The cinematographer heads the crew that manages the camera and the lights. The cinematographer is responsible to select the camera, lenses, film stock, filters, etc., and synchronizes the scene according to the director’s imagination and expectations.
Brief Description of the Cinematography Course – ZEFT Film School Chennai
The main purpose of the Cinematography course is to introduce the participants of the course to the fundamental and advanced concepts of motion picture photography. The course is designed to touch upon the technical basics as well as the artistic application of these basics.
A strong emphasis will be laid on topics related to lighting, camera, lighting equipment, diffusion, and colour gels that are used in filmmaking.
Faculty at ZEFT Film School Chennai
They are industry experts with many years’ experience in the film and television industry. They challenge the students to learn all aspects of cinematography, both theoretical and practical. The sessions include many hands-on sessions and guest lectures from experts.
The students are expected to attend a number of intensive workshops that will be conducted in different aspects of cinematography. The course would be interspersed with many field visits to studios and shooting sites.
Why cinematography at ZEFT Film School Chennai
The ZEFT Film School in Chennai has the best-in-class amenities for teaching cinematography to its students. The curriculum is intensive and unique and requires intensive commitment in terms of time and effort from the student. It is designed to make the students expert cinematographers so that they can confidently step into the movie or TV industry or even work as freelancers. They also handle a final project which requires them to demonstrate on a ‘showreel’ all what they have learned in the cinematography course.
On completion of this module, a student would understand the basics of filmmaking and appreciate cinematography as an art and as the primary form of film language.
On completing this module, a student learns to coordinate with the director and the crew of technicians and their skills in relation to the story.
On completion of this module, the student will be ready to use and shoot with various cinematographic cameras in filmmaking.
In ZEFT Film School Chennai, our course in Cinematography is designed in such a manner that the student will be able to handle different types of cameras to shoot a movie and function after understanding the effects of light and motion on the rendering of the story. The course is structured to suit today’s needs in the film and TV industry.
Film & Theater Actor, Director & Author
R Amarendran is an Indian theatre director & actor who has directed and acted in several plays in English and French. Amarendran's love for acting started in the 1980s during his college days. He was part of Girish Karnad's play Tughlaq which soon led him to get minor roles in Mithran Devanesan's Gilbert and Sullivan musicals. He later acted in English plays for several theatre groups in Chennai. In 1989 he was one the four Indians to be selected by the French government to go the L'ecole Nationale d'art Dramatique at the Theatre National de Strasbourg in France to train in acting and to act in a French play that was staged in Delhi, Calcutta and Strasbourg. On his return from France he decided to direct plays himself and in 1992 he founded the Theatre Arlequin. He staged more than 25 plays in English and French the most notable of which were Tartuffe by Moliere, The Lesson by Eugene Ionesco, The Maids by Jean Genet and Tony Kushner's adaptation of Pierre Corneille's L'Illusion Comique. His film career started in 2008 when he landed the main villain’s role in the movie Bale Pandya directed by Siddharth Chandrasekhar featuring Vishnu Vishal as the protagonist. He has acted in a major role in the critically acclaimed Vidiyum Munn which was inspired by the British film "London to Brighton". He later played the role of a history teacher in the multi-Oscar winner Hollywood film "Life of Pi". Amarendran has acted in many Tamil films like Jil Jung Juk, Vidiyum Munn, Vikram Vedha and Kabali. Amarendran has conducted numerous acting workshops for aspiring actors across India and has a strong penchant for teaching.
Script Writer, Director & Producer
John Edathattil aka Sab John is one of the most critically acclaimed Script writer in Tamil and Malayalam film industry. John has penned the Script for more than 30 feature films in Tamil and Malayalam. John became interested in Script writing early in his accounting career and started working on script writing. His noted works include Kamal Hassan starer Malayalam film Chanakyan, Guna and Kuruthipunal. His other noted films include Vyooham(1990), Gandhari (1993), Soorya Manasam(1992), Highway (1995 film), Sillunu Oru Kadhal (2006), Mayilpeelikkavu(1998) and Priyam(1999). He has framed Screen writing course curriculum for various universities in India and has trained many aspiring screen writers in India and abroad. John E has also worked as a Director and Producer for numerous Ad films and documentaries.
Cinematographer & Actor
Santhosh Nambirajan is a cinematographer and an Indian actor, who performs in Tamil language films. As a Cinematographer Santhosh has assisted National Award winning Cinematographer Chezhian in many films like Paradesi, Thaarai Thappatai,Joker, Thenmerku Paruvakaatru to name a few. He is recognized for the protagonist role he played in the film To Let. To Let has won more than 62 awards in various film festivals across the world including the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil at the 65th National Film Awards.
Director, Actor & Writer
Thilip kumar is a Software Engineer turned Independent Film maker. His first film Gubeer which was a limited release received a positive critical response, with particular praise for its novel structure and narrative. Director Karthik Subburaj of Petta praised the movie as an experimental film which is gutsy, bold & filled with fun. Thilip produced his second film through crowd funding and waiting for the release of Gubeer Part 2.
Cinematographer
Vijay worked as a photo journalist for the Vikatan Group before working as a cinematographer. He assisted the camera teams of some of the commercially successful films including Bommalattam, Chera's Autograph, Yaaradi Nee Mohini and Ajith's Varalaru. He subsequently worked as an independent cinematographer in ad films, working for over fifty brands, and then worked on assignments for documentaries for BBC about PT Usha. In 2009, he got his first big break as a cinematographer for Rajesh Lingam’s Pugaippadam, after which he worked on Maathi Yosi. He subsequently worked on Ondipuli and Nagaram. He used practical lights instead of the traditional film set lighting in the web series Nila Nila Odi Vaa. Vijay enjoys teaching and has conducted numerous workshops on Cinematography.
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Phone: 90036 23340
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