Movie Making: What are the best websites/online schools for learning Filmmaking?

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As with so many things, there is no replacement for first-hand experience. Websites and online schools can help you get a jump on some of what to expect, but the real learning definitely happens when producing a real film, even small 5-minute ones with a 4-man crew and no budget.

Well there are lot of resources on internet about learning filmmaking but first you have to decide which department of filmmaking you want to learn. In general director and screenwriter are referred as filmmakers. Other technical departments such as camera and editing are too technical to learn on internet. But you can always learn basics online. I am a filmmaker with more than 27 international awards/nominations and I am teaching more than 1000 students how to learn filmmaking. I am also teaching them how to promote your film and approach influential people within the industry and thats also for free. If you are really interested in learning filmmaking I suggest you to visit http://www.bhushanmahadani.com Thank you for your time

Introduction to Film Studies by Dr. Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan from IIT Madras    The objective of this course is to enable students to understand the language of cinema and to help them recognize significant film movements and theories as well as filmmakers who have shaped the course of world cinema, along with a reading of key cinematic texts. Expected Learning Outcome: Students would be trained to understand the language of cinema, film narrative and the history of cinema, and would be equipped to approach and appreciate cinema in an academic way. They would also become familiar with a brief history of cinema and key theoretical aspects such as formalism, structuralism/poststructuralism, modernism/postmodernism, semiotics, iconography and reception studies.   COURSE DETAIL Lecture No. Topic 1 Course Overview 2 Cinema & Semiotics 3 Cinema & Semiotics Seven (1995) 4 Plot in Cinema 5 Plot in Cinema (contd…) Conflict as a plot element 6 Character as a plot element 7 Editing in Cinema Montage Jump-cut 8   Realism in Cinema 9 Colour : Theory & Practice 10 Intertextuality Casablanca (1942) 11 Intertextuality (contd….) 12 Intertextuality (contd…) The Matrix (1999) 13  Cinema & Modernism The Lumiere Brothers George Melies Carl Dreyer Charlie Chaplin Buster Keaton 14  Cinema and Modernism (contd…) F.W. Murnau Fritz Lang Jean Cocteau Max Ophuls 15 The French Masters Jean Renoir 16 The French Masters  (contd…) Robert Bresson 17 The French Masters (contd…) What is a canon?   18 Canonical Text Citizen Kane (1940) 19   20 Canonical Text ·      The Godfather (1972/1974)   Canonical Text ·      The Godfather (contd….) 21 The Academy Awards ·      Case study: My Left Foot (1989) and Daniel Day-Lewis ·      Method Acting 22 Classic Hollywood ·      The Hay’s Code ·      The Studio Years ·      Major filmmakers 23 Classic Hollywood Major filmmakers  (George Stevens, William Wyler, Billy Wilder, Elia Kazan, George Cukor ) Melodrama 24 Classic Hollywood (contd…) Major filmmakers Melodrama: Cinema of Douglas Sirk 25 German Expressionism Film noir -Case study: Otto Preminger’s Laura (1944) Neo-noir -Case study: Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976) 26 Stars as Icons Case study: The Stardom of James Dean Fandoms 27 Cinema and the Counterculture Movement The Beat Generation Woodstock Nation Easy Rider (1968) 28 Italian cinema Italian Neo-Realism Italian Masters 29 Japanese Cinema Major Filmmakers Major Trends 30 Auteur Theory in the USA Andrew Sarris Alfred Hitchcock 31 Auteur Theory in the USA (contd…) Alfred Hitchcock as an Auteur Case study: Rope  (1948)     32 New Hollywood Major filmmakers Major texts 33 New Hollywood (contd…) Major filmmakers Major texts -The French Connection (1971) -Case study : opening sequence of Mean Streets(1973) 34   35 New Hollywood (contd…) Major filmmakers Major texts New Hollywood (contd…) The End of the New Hollywood George Lucas and Steven Spielberg New Hollywood Auteur: Woody Allen Case study: Manhattan (1979 ) 36       37 Cinema and Genres Dudley Andrews Rick Altman -Gangster as a Genre   Cinema and Genres (contd…) Genre Blending  and Genre Bending Quentin Tarantino’s films 38     39 Postmodernism and Cinema Key Theorists -Linda Hutcheon       -Ihab Hasan       -Fredric Jameson Postmodernism & Cinema (contd…) Case study: Face /off (1997) The self-conscious cinema Natural Born Killers Wag the Dog 40 The Western The Westerns of Sam Peckinpah The Myth of the American West -No Country for Old Men (2007) -There Will be Blood (2007)

Hello,As you’re willing to learn Film Making online, the institute that I can suggest you is WWI Virtual Academy, its introduced by Whistling Woods International.Its an Certificate Course in Filmmaking, which will help students understand the basics of all crafts of filmmaking – screenwriting, direction, producing, cinematography, editing and sound design besides inputs in contextual studies – such as production design, music and film appreciation.To know more about the course & the academy you can visit the below link :http://wwivirtualacademy.com/course.htmlI’m quite sure that this will be helpful for you, all the best.. :)