Film Case Studies
Are you a beginning Scriptwriter or Filmmaker who is struggling to give your story more depth and make your characters more believable?
Are you a Film Lover who enjoys films that leave you thinking — and wanting to understand how the story develops from Script to Screen?
Are you part of a Family, Church, School, or Social Group, looking for a unique Media Tool to help stimulate meaningful and animated discussions among your members about Life Issues, Human Behavior, and the Art of Filmmaking?
Do a Brooklyn Young Filmmakers Film Case Study! With each of our short films we give you two Script Versions, a Script Critique, and a Discussion Guide to study.
One of Brooklyn Young Filmmakers goals in producing short films through our MAKE A FILM Class Series is to make “TEACHING STORIES”; multi-layered films that can stimulate audiences to new discussions about life choices, human behavior, and the process of filmmaking. We are packaging each film with two different Script Versions (the original student script and the workshoped rewritten shooting script), a Script Critique, and a Discussion Guide that includes information of the Behind-the-Scenes Making of the Film – including the things that went wrong and what we learned!.
Brooklyn Young Filmmakers Film Case Studies are for all ages of adults and teens 14 yrs and older. Our Film Case Studies can be effectively used in (intergenerational) group settings when there is a strong facilitator who has studied the material in advance.
We are posting our earlier films here as free Film Case Studies. Our later films we are packaging for sell at the BYFC STORE to help support our new MAKE A FILM Community Filmmaking Projects.
THE EIGHT STEPS TO LEARNING THE MOST FROM BYFC FILM CASE STUDIES!
- Invite someone else to do the lesson with you, so you have someone to discuss it with and bounce ideas off of.
- First read the attached pdf “Understanding How A Script is a Blueprint”. (Link to pdf.)
- Read the Case History of the film you are going to study.
- Read the original Student Script we worked from (which is usually the second or third draft the student writes in the class).
- Read the Instructor’s Script Critique.
- Read the rewritten Shooting Script.
- View the completed Film.
- Review and answer the questions in the Film’s Discussion Guide.
There is a 9th step you can take – help us improve our Film Case Studies! Send us your feedback on what you learned or what you wanted to know, but we didn’t cover, and your suggestions for improving BYFC Film Case Studies. communityfilm@wearebyfc.org
BYFC FILM CASE STUDIES