Williams, Eric

How to View and Appreciate Great Movies (Complete set of 4 DVDs + Course Guidebook)

Chantilly, VA: The Great Courses / The Teaching Company, 2018.
DVD set of 4 discs in box + paperback guidebook.

Course #7000. Eric Williams is a Professor in the School of Media Arts & Studies at Ohio University, where he teaches courses on screenwriting, film, and virtual reality production. He has written 30 screenplays and has produced and directed films for companies such as Fox Interactive and Universal Studios.  In this series of 24 30-minute lectures, Professor Williams will take you behind the scenes and explain the elements of filmmaking in three parts: storytelling and screenwriting, individual production areas from sound design to set design, and the idea of character. Lecture topics include:

Disc 1

1. The Art of the Silver Screen
2. We All Need Another Hero: Universal Stories
3. Movie Genre: It’s Not What You Think
4. Genre Layers and Audience Expectations
5. Popcorn Can Wait: Story Shape and Tension
6. Themes on Screen

Disc 2

1. Paradigm Shift: Citizen Kane and Casablanca
2. The Language of Visual Storytelling
3. Building Screen Space: Blocking and Framing
4. The Cutting Room Floor: Powerful Editing
5. Sound Design and Acoustic Illusion
6. Setting the Scene: Masterful Set Design

Disc 3

1. Special Effects in the 20th Century
2. Special Effects in the 21st Century
3. Scoring the Story: Music in Film
4. Color and Light: Elements of Atmosphere
5. Knowing Characters from the Inside Out
6. Knowing Characters from the Outside In

Disc 4

1. Secondary Characters and Supporting Actors
2. Star Power: Lead Actors and Their Roles
3. Character Relationships and Audience Empathy
4. Pathways to Great Antagonists
5. Point of View in Script and on Screen
6. Filmmaker’s Voice and Audience Choice

Item #900848
ISBN: 1629975648

4 discs in case, 24 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture, includes 197pp 5-1/4 x 7-3/8" guidebook in pictorial wrappers.

Previously owned set in excellent unused condition.

Price: $50.00