Part 1. Language and production
1. The film first draft – synopsis and pitching; 2. The screenplay; 3. Pre-production; 4. Key roles: director; 5. Key roles: director of photography; 6. Key roles: editor; 7. Shots and camera movements; 8. The grammar of film editing; 9. Technical issues in film editing between analog and digital formats; 10. Post-production and color correction; 11. Special effects from the analog era to present days; 12. Computer graphics and 3D.

Part 2. The contemporary landscape
1. Production between TV, cinema and digital media; 2. Digital and broadcast media: a new landscape; 3. Viral videos and web popularity; 4. The webseries’ formats and storytelling; 5. Branded contents and brand entertainment; 6. The serialization of cinema and the film as a brand; 7. The new golden age of TV in the digital era: Netflix, Prime and the rising of the OTT companies

Robert Edgar, John Marland, Steven Rawle, The Language of Film, Fairchild Books, London 2015 (Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 5)