BDes
Motion Picture
Design
A four-year, production-focused undergraduate programme designed to develop visionary filmmakers who can script, shoot, and launch compelling cinematic works end-to-end.
From story to screen.
The BDes in Motion Picture Design is a four-year, production-focused undergraduate programme built around visual storytelling, rigorous technical craft, and industry readiness.
Learners develop fluency across advanced digital camera systems, AI in media production, responsible filmmaking practices, distribution strategies, and entrepreneurial funding models. Learning is anchored in professional sound stages, editing suites, field production labs, industry immersion, and collaborative projects.
Across eight semesters, learners build substantial professional outcomes including multiple short films and feature segments, industry collaborations, internship experience, a professional reel, a film distribution plan, and a major thesis film or series pilot as a final capstone entrepreneurship project.
Eight pillars of cinematic practice.
The programme scope combines storytelling, technical craft, academic alignment, emerging media, technology, practical outputs, and entrepreneurship.
Integrated Core Focus
Blends visual storytelling, rigorous technical craft, and acute industry readiness.
End-to-End Production Goal
Develops filmmakers who can script, shoot, and launch compelling cinematic works end-to-end.
Foundational Alignment
Grounded in foundational educational principles with alignment to NEP-2020, OBE, and NSQF.
Systematic Skill Progression
Progresses from screenwriting, cinematography, sound design, editing, and directing to advanced practice.
Future-Oriented Specializations
Includes Virtual Production, Documentary Filmmaking, Experimental Cinema, and Post-Production and VFX.
Technological Fluency
Builds fluency in advanced digital camera systems, AI in media production, distribution, and entrepreneurial funding.
Practical Outcomes
Produces multiple short films, industry collaborations, internship experience, and a professional reel.
Capstone Entrepreneurship
Culminates in a major thesis film or series pilot as a final capstone entrepreneurship project.
Multiple entry. Multiple exit.
The programme follows a NEP-aligned progression with staged qualifications and increasing professional responsibility across four years.
Progressive Motion Picture Design Qualifications
Year 1 develops core foundations in screenwriting, visual storytelling, cinematography, digital camera systems, editing, and directing. Year 2 advances sound, post-production, responsible filmmaking, and short-form production. Year 3 introduces advanced specializations, internships, live projects, distribution, and professional presentation. Year 4 culminates in a major thesis film, advanced research, leadership, creative direction, and entrepreneurial filmmaking.
Exit qualifications progress from UG Certificate in Motion Picture Design after Year 1, to UG Diploma in Motion Picture Design after Year 2, BDes in Motion Picture Design after Year 3, and BDes (Hon) in Motion Picture Design after Year 4.
Eight semesters.
One evolving practice.
The curriculum progresses from visual literacy and technical fluency to production rigor, commercial strategy, industry immersion, Virtual Production, and professional launch.
First Year: Design Foundations and Visual Literacy
- Seeing and Observing
- Thinking and Making
- Rhetoric and Composition 1
- Mind Management and Human Values I
- Story and Expression
- Systems and Context
- Rhetoric and Composition 2
- Mind Management and Human Values II
Second Year: Production Rigor and Narrative Craft
- Production Strategy, Budgeting and Management
- Directing Praxis: Script and Mise-en-Scène
- Introduction to Film Sound
- Studio 3 Mise-en-Scène Design Dossier
- Environmental Science
- Crafting script for Media Platforms
- Cinematography: Lighting and Rigging
- Fiction Narratives and Production
- Studio 4 Dialogue Sequence Production
- Indian Constitution
- Open Elective 1
Third Year: Commercial Strategy and Industry Immersion
- Commercial Directing and Branded Content Strategy
- Advanced Cinematography: VFX Integration and Multi-Camera
- Advanced Sound Design and Psychoacoustics
- Studio 5: Commercial Production
- Open Elective 2
- Directing for Documentary and Digital Media (TV and OTT)
- Advanced Editing and VFX in cinema
- Industry Internship / Live Project
- Studio 6 Non-Fiction Project / VFX Film
- Open Elective 3
Fourth Year: Future Tech and Professional Launch
- Feature Film Production
- Advanced Cinematography: VP and Digital Emulation
- Music Supervision and Cinematic Scoring
- Studio 7 VP Design and Demo Reel
- Advanced Story Structure and Future Aesthetics
- Post-Production Automation and Final Mastering
- Distribution, Marketing and Festival Strategy
- Studio 8 Graduation Film Project
- Open Elective 4
Built for the future of media.
The programme combines end-to-end cinematic production, formal academic alignment, future-ready specialisation, AI fluency, hands-on industry learning, professional outputs, and media entrepreneurship.
End-to-End Cinematic Production Focus
A studio-intensive approach that develops filmmakers capable of conceiving, shooting, and launching cinematic works end-to-end.
Formal Academic and Skills Alignment
Grounded in NEP-2020 principles and aligned to OBE and NSQF, with systematic progression from foundational skills to advanced mastery.
Future-Ready Specialization and AI Fluency
Builds expertise in Virtual Production, Documentary Filmmaking, Post-Production and VFX, AI in media production, and advanced digital camera systems.
Hands-on, Industry-Anchored Learning
Anchored in professional sound stages, editing suites, field production labs, internships, immersion programmes, and live projects with industry mentors.
Professional Capstone Outcomes
Graduates complete a major thesis film or series pilot, a full professional reel, and a comprehensive film distribution plan.
Cultivation of Media Founders and Technologists
Supports creators, technologists, and founders through entrepreneurial projects and a final venture-oriented media capstone.
What the programme develops.
Programme Educational Objectives describe the longer-term capabilities the programme is designed to cultivate.
Graduate capabilities.
Programme Outcomes describe the transferable creative, technical, communication, collaboration, self-management, digital, and resilience capabilities expected at graduation.
Build a career across cinema and media.
The programme prepares visionary storytellers, technical directors, and industry innovators for roles across production, post-production, emerging media, distribution, and entrepreneurship.
Storytelling and Direction
Develop and direct original cinematic work across narrative and non-fiction formats.
Cinematography and Post-Production
Work across image-making, editing, sound, and technical post-production workflows.
Emerging Media and Production Technology
Apply future-facing production practices across virtual and digital media environments.
Media Management and Distribution
Work across production coordination, media management, distribution, and market-facing strategy.
Creative Enterprise
Build independent production houses, media studios, and entrepreneurial creative ventures.
Direct your vision
into the world.
Explore the BDes in Motion Picture Design programme and build the craft, technical fluency, and industry readiness to create compelling cinema.