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Learn shared foundations, then work with real industry materials.
Film and media track
From shot boundaries to evidence-based relationships and film deliverables.
Build a continuous shot table from a real film. Identify cuts and gradual transitions, group by visible setting, link only supported facts, apply rule changes and deliver a verifiable complete package for another unseen film.
Courses follow your selected language. Revisit the shared foundations as needed; each project below includes real material, practical tasks and a review.
From evidence-based judgment to a complete deliverable
The first five projects build skills; the last combines them on an independent source. Follow the sequence or revisit a project to revise.
- P1Open project
Hard cuts and a continuous shot table
Locate the first instructional frame of the new image after a hard cut and deliver inclusive shot intervals without gaps or overlap.
- P2Open project
Dissolves, fades and brightness changes
Use before, middle and after evidence to distinguish hard cuts, discernible dissolves, fades and within-shot brightness changes; record gradual transition intervals.
- P3Open project
Group by visible setting
Group shots using the visible setting and explain why they belong together, remain separate or cannot be confirmed.
- P4Open project
Factual relationships across intercut shots
Link supported person and action facts across shots, limiting inferences about causality, simultaneity, gaze and mental states.
- P5Open project
Rework and changes to transition rules
Apply the new rules to fix missing spans, gaps, overlaps, incorrect descriptions and affected references; retain verifiable differences between versions.
- P6Open project
Complete delivery for an independent film task
Combine shots, transitions, visible settings, factual relationships, rule-driven rework and unresolved handoff items. Audio and plot analysis remain outside this scope.
Advanced practice
Advanced film: shot boundaries and continuous delivery
Start by distinguishing action from cuts. Record shot changes, setting relationships and gradual transition spans separately, build a complete shot table, then revise and deliver work from two new films.
Start advanced practice
Course completion and independent delivery quality are verified separately. Keep work pending review when human references are not ready.
- F1Open advanced practice
Do not mistake a person's movement for a cut
Use adjacent frames to distinguish within-shot action from an image discontinuity; judge before adding an event.
- F2Open advanced practice
A cut may still show the same setting
Record cut judgments separately from visible setting continuity. Do not use the plot to invent locations or causes.
- F3Open advanced practice
A gradual transition is not a guessed cut point
Use before, middle and after frames to locate cuts and gradual transitions, combining transition intervals and surrounding shots into a verifiable record of the complete clip.
- F4Open advanced practice
Account for every frame in the delivery table
Build a complete, continuous, mutually exclusive and locatable delivery table using shot, transition and unresolved records.
- F5Open advanced practice
Correct false cuts, missing frames and wrong relationships
Review the faulty draft and correct affected shots and the delivery version together.
- F6Open advanced practice
Deliver complete shot packages for two new films
Complete segmentation, change records, relationships and quality handoff without answer hints for these films.
A practical learning sequence
- Study the example
Start with illustrated explanations, a complete demonstration and boundaries that are easy to misjudge.
- Work independently
Gradually remove hints while building linked records, correcting quality issues and reworking rule changes.
- Deliver on another source
Deliver a complete package from an independent source, retain the first submission, then make targeted revisions.