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CINE 340 Cinema and Media Theory
Using primary texts, the course examines and interrogates the significant debates and concepts in cinema and media theory. Among other issues, the course focuses on the ontology of the moving image, narratology, ideological and psychological theories spectatorship and audiences, and aesthetic differences between analog and digital. Students will read original texts and write papers in response to screenings where they apply various theories and readings.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3500
Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 345 Advanced Casting Director
Course will focus on the casting director’s role as a facilitator of (and creative collaborator) in casting for filmed entertainment. This instruction will entail the full range of affairs between casting director and director during the auditioning phase and a comprehensive look at hiring actors, contract negotiations, actor representation, and the Screen Actors Guild.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-3601
Co-requisites CINE 248 Producing I: Production Team or CINE 128 Acting and Directing Workshop
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 348 Producing II: Legal and Financial Options
Taking a pragmatic view of the evolving film industry, course examines the basic process of financing film and video projects including research and analysis and associated procedures to procure production financing. Course also explores the bundle of rights associated with filmmaking including the role of the chain of title and the protocol of negotiating corresponding multi-platform distribution deals. A thorough examination of cast and crew dealmaking, contracts relating to locations, vendors, and other production affiliates is discussed.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3607
Prerequisites CINE 102 Cinema Notebooks and CINE 103 Cinema Image and Process
Co-requisites CINE 248 Producing I: Production Team
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 349 Producing III: The Creative Producer
Course examines the role and functions of the creative producer throughout the life cycle of a film. The creative producer is the person who acquires intellectual property, develops it, packages it, finds financing, and hires and supervisee the entirety of the cast and crew from pre-production through distribution. Course will balance classroom lectures with practical exercises in advanced filmmaking.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3609
Prerequisites CINE 248 Producing I: Production Team
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 350 Producing IV: Project Development
Course familiarizes students with the short film as a distinct form and learn the range of ways fictional short films can be originated along with associated best practices, including legal and ethical considerations. Potential sources will include original ideas, complete works adapted from other modes (such as short stories and stage plays), excerpts from existing works, and real world events (via news and current affairs). Under the supervision of faculty, senior screenwriting and producing students will form teams and provide scripts that maximize the creative and logistical potential of the source material. The course instructors will function as executive producers for all the projects developed within the class. Course admission is by application.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-3608
Prerequisites CINE 248 Producing I: Production Team
Co-requisites CINE 348 Producing II: Legal and Financial Options or CINE 349 Producing III: The Creative Producer
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 351 Location Scouting and Management Workshop
Course focuses on the role of the location manager who is responsible for the finding and securing locations to be used and coordinating the logistics involved for the production to successfully complete its necessary work. Further, the course focuses on the location manager as the face of the production to the community and responsible for addressing the issues that may arise due to the production’s impact on the community. The location manager typically is also the primary Location Scout for a film. They usually oversee several other scouts and assistant managers during the course of a show. They will commonly work closely with the director and the production designer during preproduction to find and secure the creative vision expressed by them. They are also responsible for public relations at the locations used and the safety of the crew during filming.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3602J
Prerequisites CINE 145 Screenwriting I: Writing the Short Film
Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2
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CINE 355 Screenwriting Workshops:
Course is designed to help the students write better and more effective scripts. Students will learn a variety of approaches and techniques. This is a repeatable course with rotating topics, which in the past have included co-writing and experimental screenwriting.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-3740
Prerequisites CINE 245 Screenwriting II: The Feature Film and CINE 140 Script Analysis for Cinema
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 357 Production Management: Scheduling & Budget Workshop (ONLINE)
Brief, intensive, online workshop course examines the role of script breakdown, scheduling, and budgeting in film production. Course emphasizes script analysis for identifying key elements such as cast, locations, props, and art and design elements, and to determine appropriate scheduling, costs, rate sheets, and budgets. Class utilizes distance-learning methodology, with students completing coursework online. Students should contact the instructor during the first week of the semester.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3610
Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2
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CINE 358 Production Management: Script Supervisor Workshop
Brief, intensive, online workshop course examines the role of the script supervisor in film production. Content emphasizes the importance of continuity for single camera production, script timing, reporting, lining the script, and monitoring pick-ups and wild tracks. Class utilizes distance-learning methodology, with students completing coursework online. Students should contact the instructor during the first week of the semester.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3612
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 359 Production Management: Postproduction Supervisor Workshop (ONLINE)
Brief, intensive, online workshop course examines the role of the post-production supervisor in film production. Content emphasizes acquisition of post-production personnel and facilities; managing, budgeting, and scheduling workflow; and assuring adherence to delivery requirements as specified by the distribution agreement. Class utilizes distance-learning methodology, with students completing coursework online. Students should contact the instructor during the first week of the semester.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3613
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 362 Los Angeles Speaker Series
This course offers students participating in the Los Angeles program the opportunity to gain insight into the daily business of the entertainment industry through a series of guest lecturers.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 364 The Assistant Director’s Workshop
Course teaches assistant directors how to run a set by assembling all of the elements needed for filming and for the daily operation of the shooting set. Course explores an assistant director’s objective of providing the director with everything he or she needs to put the director’s vision on film. Their duties are supervisory, organizational, administrative - and multifarious. Working within the structure that is governed by budgets, union and guild contracts, industry custom, and so on, they make schedules, attend to the cast, direct extras, oversee the crew as each shot is prepared, create detailed reports of each day’s events, and are looked to by cast and crew to solve many problems that arise in advanced productions.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3624
Prerequisites CINE 102 Cinema Notebooks and CINE 103 Cinema Image and Process
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 365 Set Decoration
Building on the concepts introduced in Production Design 1, course emphasizes the development and fulfillment of a film’s visual theme through set decoration. Course will include the creative and practical aspects of the Art Department as they relate to Set Decorating.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-2012
Prerequisites CINE 102 Cinema Notebooks and CINE 103 Cinema Image and Process and CINE 107 Production Design I
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 368 The Line Producer Workshop
This course provides the Line Producing student with the unique opportunity to produce an advanced student short film. This course teaches Line Producers how to produce a short film by assembling all of the preparation elements needed for filming and then for the day-to-day operation of the shooting set/principal photography. The course explores a Line Producer¹s objective of maintaining financial responsibility while providing the production and Creative Producer with everything needed to put the Director¹s vision on film. Their duties are supervisory, organizational, administrative and multifarious. The Line Producing student will be working within the structure that is governed by budgets, union and schedules, attend to cast, contract with vendors, hire crew, create detailed reports of each day¹s events and are looked to by cast and crew to problem solve on a moment to moment notice before and during production.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3635
Prerequisites CINE 248 Producing I: Production Team
Minimum Credits 6 Maximum Credits 6
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CINE 369 Producing the Commercial and Corporate Film
Course introduces the role of the producer in development, production, postproduction, and delivery of commercials and corporate films. Instruction emphasizes standard practices in production company operations. Students learn how to read storyboards and scripts and understand strategic marketing plans through practical applications. Students will bid, schedule, and execute a commercial production.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3637
Prerequisites CINE 248 Producing I: Production Team
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 371 Production Management: Location Management Workshop (ONLINE)
Brief, intensive, online workshop course examines the role of the location manager in film production. Content emphasizes location scouting, analysis of the production’s logistical and budgetary requirements, negotiating with owners, acquisition of permits, and ensuring that legal requirements are met. Class utilizes distance-learning methodology, with students completing coursework online. Students should contact the instructor during the first week of the semester.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3618
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 373 Comparative Screenwriting:
This is a repeatable, rotating subjects course that provides students with an extensive examination of the screenwriter’s role, career, development, and relationship to the production process. These objectives are achieved by comparing and contrasting screenplays and/or screenwriters that are related in a significant way.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-3720
Prerequisites CINE 140 Script Analysis for Cinema and CINE 145 Screenwriting I: Writing the Short Film
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 374 Genres in Screenwriting:
Course examines a specific genre and provides an opportunity to develop and write a feature screenplay based upon elements of the genre, but reflective of the student’s personal themes, as well. This is a repeatable, rotating subjects course wherein the genre rotates from semester to semester.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-3725
Prerequisites CINE 245 Screenwriting II: The Feature Film
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 376 Script Rewrite and Polish
Advanced collaborative workshop course asks students to focus on the subtleties associated with production rewriting from sculpting dialogue, polishing characters to defining the role of theme in the short film arena. Juxtaposed with these creative affairs, students will be introduced to business practices associated with doing rewrite work, including work for hire scenarios. Material for the class must be approved by instructors and Practicum faculty before being admitted into the class
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3701J
Prerequisites CINE 349 Producing III: The Creative Producer or CINE 245 Screenwriting II: The Feature Film
Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2
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CINE 377 Documentary Projects
This course develops advanced techniques in the process of documentary filmmaking, from idea, research, treatment, shooting techniques, to editing. Students produce a fully developed short documentary film which exhibits a sophisticated approach to documentary concepts, practices, aesthetics, and ethical problems encountered in contemporary documentary filmmaking. Students will workshop ideas leading to a production that communicates meaning, demonstrates an ethical concern for its subjects, affects its audience, and reflects an individual voice.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-3801
Prerequisites CINE 266 Documentary Storytelling
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 378 Ideation & Theme: Portfolio Review
Course provides an opportunity for screenwriting students to revisit work completed throughout their tenure in the screenwriting program. Students critique their previous work in an effort to understand their themes and styles, their strengths and weaknesses, and their development as a writer. This examination assists students in setting professional goals as screenwriters, whether that includes working in Hollywood or the independent scene.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3750
Prerequisites CINE 374 Genres in Screenwriting: and CINE 253 Adaptation and CINE 260 Screen Treatment & Presentation
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 380 Studies in Screenwriting:
This repeatable course consists of subjects of interest to the developing screenwriter. Previous courses have focused on myths and dreams, experimental scriptwriting, business aspects of screenwriting, and historical research. This is a rotating subjects course.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-3730
Prerequisites CINE 145 Screenwriting I: Writing the Short Film
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 381 Studies in Documentary
Production course for advanced documentary students studies and engages in various subgenres of documentary filmmaking. Such past topics have included visualizing the documentary, the nature film documentary, and cinema verite. Students may repeat this course as topics change.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-3820
Prerequisites CINE 102 Cinema Notebooks and CINE 103 Cinema Image and Process
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 382 Advanced Topics in Cinema Editing and Post Production
This is an advanced topics course in Editing and Postproduction. Topics will vary.
Repeatable: Y
Prerequisites CINE 130 Editing I
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 383 Advanced Topics in Cinema Directing
This is an advanced topics course in the area of Cinema Directing. Topics will vary.
Repeatable: Y
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 4
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CINE 384 Advanced Topics in Cinema Producing
This is an advanced topics course in the area of Cinema Producing. Topics will vary.
Repeatable: Y
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 4
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CINE 385 Advanced Topics in Cinema: Production Design
This course examines the ever-changing landscape of the Production Design discipline and techniques and its place in Cinema and Television. This course presents varying topics that address the vast and rich tapestry of both time honored traditions and up to the minute technological advancement in the field of Production Design.
Repeatable: Y
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6
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CINE 386 Advanced Topics in Cinematography
This is an advanced course in cinematography. Topics will vary.
Repeatable: Y
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6
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CINE 387 Advanced Topics in Cinema Lighting:
This repeatable course consists of rotating subjects of interest.
Repeatable: Y
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6
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CINE 388 Advanced Topics in Cinema Studies
Advanced Topics in Cinema Studies is a speculative and highly focused inquiry into emergent discourses of cinema history, theory, and culture on the forefront of recent scholarship. Students will synthesize the results of their inquiry into the composition of a graduate-level essay or into the crafting of a video essay. Topics will vary.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 389 Advanced Topics in Documentary
This is an advanced Topics course in Documentary. The topics will vary. This repeatable course consists of rotating subjects of interest.
Repeatable: Y
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6
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CINE 403 Teacher Training in Film & Video
Course provides students an opportunity to establish teaching skills and to develop curriculum for foundations curriculum. Participants will discover how they learn and how best to teach others film production. Lectures, along with all support material, will be developed collectively and will become the property of all those involved in the class. Students completing this course will be prepared for the rigors of teaching beginning filmmakers.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-4063
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2
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CINE 405 The Professional Director
This Los Angeles-based course looks at the director at work. A variety of professional film and television directors will rotate through the course, showing how directors analyze and break down text, prepare for shooting, rehearse actors, and block action for the camera. Students will critique and analyze dailies with professional directors.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-4302L
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4
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CINE 406 Cinematography II
Building on Cinematography I, this course focuses on visual storytelling with an emphasis on color, camera movement, shot design and other creative choices. Students develop a story and visual concept and shoot a short project in 35mm film acquisition without any dialogue, relying heavily on visuals to communicate story, tone, theme and emotional impact.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-4203
Prerequisites CINE 306 Cinematography I and CINE 308 Digital Cinematography
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4
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CINE 410 Advanced Editing Seminar
This intensive course provides an opportunity for editing students to collaborate on original creative work by advanced direction, thesis and independent projects, in a seminar environment. Deadlines are strictly enforced as editors collaborate with students in other areas of expertise in creating a short digital narrative project. Students also develop an extensive written career plan to showcase their creative work and important portfolio materials such as website, editing samples, resume, cover letters, and business cards.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-4406
Prerequisites CINE 230 Editing II
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4
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CINE 411 Post-Production Audio III
Advanced level Sound for Cinema course designed to further student’s insight and experience into the art of preparing, mixing and re-recording sound tracks for cinema. Students work in collaborative environment to complete class projects that mirror professional industry cinema sound practice. Skills training and learning outcomes offered in this class represent the capstone in the Sound for Cinema pathway.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3122
Prerequisites CINE 311 Post-Production Audio II
Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4
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CINE 412 Editing the Feature
This course teaches advanced editing students professional techniques and protocols while editing a feature length film. Students develop the necessary skills needed to organize and manipulate large amounts of material, to apply their creative skills to tell a complete three-act story, and to deliver postproduction materials suitable for complex sound design and color correction. Students work as a team directly with the director and/or producer of an original creative work. Students should allow additional time for editing assignments outside the classroom.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-4408
Prerequisites CINE 230 Editing II or CINE 228 Editing the Documentary or CINE 377 Documentary Projects
Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4
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CINE 413 Advanced Production Sound Applications
Course further examines and practices production sound recording strategies and techniques to better prepare advanced location sound students for a career as a professional sound mixer. Students will provide production sound services to advanced projects including pre-production assessment of equipment applications, budgets, attend all production meetings, location scouting, acquisition of audio tracks, keep production journals, manage all audio media, formats and documentation. Emphasis is on collaboration and providing a high level of production sound services to Cinema and Television Arts productions.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3102
Prerequisites CINE 313 Location Sound Recording II
Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4
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CINE 414 Digital Cinema Mastering
Course provides an advanced editing experience in three areas: developing skills necessary to manipulate large amounts of cinema source material; acquiring the means to apply those skills while working with clients; and using nonlinear editing and color correction equipment to complete assigned online editing and cinema mastering projects. Students also learn organizational skills necessary to edit projects and gain advanced knowledge of post-production protocols in offline editing and the generation of EDLs and KeyKode cutlists, video online editing and digital cinema mastering. Students work on advanced cinema and high definition projects on industry leading nonlinear editing and color correction software. Digital Intermediates and Digital Cinema Packages will also be covered. Students receive critiques of their work after each project to determine the development of their proficiency of craft and creativity. Course culminates in the finishing of a cinema project from an off-line creative edit to a digital cinema master.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-4428
Prerequisites CINE 230 Editing II
Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4
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CINE 415 Sound Mixing for Cinema
Sound Mixing For Cinema explores the advanced processes used to create effective state-of-the-art cinema sound mixes. In this intensive, hands-on studio course, students will study the latest trends in soundtrack aesthetics & rerecording technology and employ these techniques in mixing soundtracks for a variety of cinema genres & media.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3126
Prerequisites CINE 311 Post-Production Audio II
Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4
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CINE 416 Advanced First Assistant Director
Course would focus on applied advanced first assistant director skills, including short and feature film scheduling, calling roll on-set, collaborating with the director and other key crew during production, working in both union and non-union settings, and wrangling associated production documentation.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-4615
Prerequisites CINE 364 The Assistant Director’s Workshop
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 417 Producing: Distribution & Marketing Workshop (ONLINE)
Brief, intensive, online workshop course examines distribution and marketing strategies in the film production cycle. Course focuses on the nature of distribution deals, marketing campaigns, and finding and researching distributors. Class utilizes distance-learning methodology, with students completing coursework online. Students should contact the instructor during the first week of the semester.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-4621
Prerequisites CINE 248 Producing I: Production Team
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 418 Producing: Film Financing Workshop (ONLINE)
Brief, intensive, online workshop course examines methods and types of film financing, placing emphasis on using appropriate legal structures for each production. Instruction explores the current state of the market to determine appropriate budgets. Class utilizes distance-learning methodology, with students completing coursework online. Students should contact the instructor during the first week of the semester.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-4622
Prerequisites CINE 248 Producing I: Production Team
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 419 Producing: Legal Elements Workshop (ONLINE)
Brief, intensive, online workshop course examines basic legal elements and requirements for filmmakers, including copyright, literary options, clearances, and deals. Content addresses the method for finding an entertainment and intellectual property attorney. Class utilizes distance-learning methodology, with students completing coursework online. Students should contact the instructor during the first week of the semester.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-4623
Prerequisites CINE 248 Producing I: Production Team
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 420 Concept, Pitch & Sales - Los Angeles
This course examines how films are sold to major studios, producers, and distributors. In this class, students learn first how to shape the initial idea, how to deliver the pitch, and how to negotiate a deal. Course emphasizes not only the theory of the pitch but its practice as well. Course admission is by application.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-4630L
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 421 Lighting III
This course is a stage-based lighting workshop in which advanced camera and production design teams collaborate to develop and reproduce a pre-existing painting or photograph as a moving image. This work includes prevailing aesthetic principles of lighting for cinema, and highlights how lighting for still imagery differs from lighting for moving characters/objects/camera.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3205
Prerequisites CINE 321 Lighting II and CINE 315 Cinematography: Camera Seminar II
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4
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CINE 422 Camera Movement: Practical Application of the Moving Camera
This advanced course is designed for cinematography students who are about to embark on a capstone experience. The class covers the study and practical application of camera movement. Students will complete multiple exercises in designing, blocking, lighting and shooting that contain choreographed camera movement. Additionally, students rotate through the four distinct jobs required for successful shot making: director of photography, camera operator, first camera assistant, and dolly grip.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3211J
Prerequisites CINE 321 Lighting II and CINE 306 Cinematography I and CINE 315 Cinematography: Camera Seminar II
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2
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CINE 423 Research & Analysis of the Film & Television Industries (LA)
This course teaches students to perform sophisticated research and analysis of selected production and distribution companies in the film and television industries. Use of specific industry databases and trade journals is covered as well as the use of primary and secondary source research. Students will learn how to use research to prepare analysis and professional reports.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-4633L
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 424 Strategic Distribution for Filmmakers
This course focuses on the practical step-by-step process of creating and implementing strategies to launch short-form content into current distribution and festival venues. Having a good film is not enough; a producer must identify specific elements in the film across a myriad of different and evolving technology and trend-driven platforms, as well as be able to effectively secure distribution.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-4660
Prerequisites CINE 248 Producing I: Production Team or CINE 225 Cinema Directing I
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 425 Cinema Directing III
Course covers directing original material, from script breakdown and pre-visualization through location production and picture cut, culminating in a short narrative cinematic story. Using HD video format, instruction elaborates on collaborative skills needed to work with a cinematographer, production designer, editor, and other department heads. Students apply for admittance by submitting a very short, dramatically effective screenplay that is ready for pre-production.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3303
Prerequisites CINE 325 Cinema Directing II
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 6 Maximum Credits 6
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CINE 426 Cinema Comedy Directing
Course focuses on narrative scene work with an emphasis on comedy theory, aesthetics, timing, performance, blocking, and improvisation. The identification and development of comedic material serves as the foundation for scene work that is directed and critiqued through in-class exercises. Course culminates in the direction of a short, scripted comedy project, shot on location.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-2302
Prerequisites CINE 225 Cinema Directing I
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 428 The Business of Screenwriting
Course instructs students how the inner workings of the film industry directly affect their ambitions as screenwriters. They will understand that there is much more to being a screenwriter than writing the script alone. Course will give the students a working knowledge of finding an agent, researching producers for their material, dealing with studios, understanding different types of contracts, copyright law and the Writers Guild of America. Students will also have a chance to take their scripts through a professional submission process to the agent or production company of their choice.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-4742
Prerequisites CINE 245 Screenwriting II: The Feature Film and CINE 140 Script Analysis for Cinema
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 430 Creative Seminar
This course provides an opportunity for students to revisit work completed throughout their studies. Students critique their previous work in an effort to understand their themes and styles, their strengths and weaknesses, and their development as a filmmaker. This examination assists students in setting future goals both in terms of selecting their Capstone classes and what they plan to do after graduation, whether that includes working in media, applying to grad schools, or identifying other career paths.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-4000
Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 432 Producing Creative Content - Los Angeles
Hollywood continues to change rapidly, and this course will explore both the traditional studio/network distribution models as well as the digital ecosystem. What are the latest trends? How do producers get their material financed and made? What is the role of the producer in features, TV, new media platforms and emerging creative industries?
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-4631L
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 435 Exploration in Career Development:
This intensive workshop explores disciplines related to cinema, television, and other visual media like Production Design, Cinematography, Costume Design, and Film Festivals and potential career paths that lie before students. Students meet professionals and receive tours of discipline-specific facilities, or have other on-site experiences, acquainting them with steps for transitioning from an academic life to a professional one. Students should arrive with samples of creative work which may be refined during the semester. Students submit a paper detailing their overall experience and a self-assessment based on feedback given throughout the course. Students spend one week in the classroom with an additional one week online. This is a rotating subjects course.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR) and Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 438 The Machine Room
Course is an intensive two-day seminar in machine-room technology. The machine room is the heart of a post-production facility. Students will learn video and audio signal patching and monitoring. The mechanics of professional videotape decks, patchbays, distribution amps, waveform monitors, and vectorscopes will be covered. This practicum prepares students for post-production industry entrance exams.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-4430
Prerequisites CINE 130 Editing I
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 440 Seminar in Cinema and Media Studies
In this seminar, students will engage in extensive research into areas of cinema history, media, or theory and criticism. Students will apply their research into the composition of a graduate-level essay. This is a rotating subjects course.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-3503
Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 445 Screenwriting III: Senior Thesis
Based on student goals as identified in Ideation and Theme, course allows the student to develop a final portfolio thesis project. This thesis is the culmination of the skills the student has developed during his/her studies at Columbia.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-4710
Prerequisites CINE 378 Ideation & Theme: Portfolio Review
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 466 Production Design: Special Effects
This course introduces students to the design and execution of safe practical special effects for cinema. Students will develop and design effects taking advantage of camera, frame, object, and space manipulation. Students will combine techniques and technology such as forced perspective, mechanical movements, electric motors, actuators and electronics to create safe and effective illusions for the screen. Students will study professional effects and will collaborate on a final project to be captured on film or video.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3006
Prerequisites CINE 208 Cinema Set Design and Construction or CINE 205 Cinema Props
Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4
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CINE 475 Experimental Production II
Project-centered course stimulates and assists students in the creation of an alternative film, video, or digital work. Students will employ an aesthetic that explores, challenges, or subverts mainstream narrative or documentary structures. The class builds on topics from Experimental Production I, including camera experimentation and image manipulation as well as the development of personal, political, or social themes. Festivals, distribution, and marketing of experimental film and video will also be emphasized. The class will produce a show at the end of the semester.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-4902
Prerequisites CINE 275 Experimental Production I
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 479 Editing and Finishing the Advanced Project
This course is an opportunity for student directors, editors, producers and others who have a project in postproduction to complete the creative edit of their film and take the film through finishing. Students will work with the instructor through successive creative cuts and collaborate with the entire creative team, guiding them through the Post process, prepping the project for sound design, visual fx and color, until delivery of a completed Master is achieved.
Students must have an advanced project in postproduction and permission of instructor.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-4400B
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2
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CINE 480 Script Development Practicum
Course familiarizes students with the short film as a distinct form and explores the range of ways fictional short films can be originated along with associated best practices, including legal and ethical considerations. Students will establish and nurture creative partners capable of finding and developing viable short scripts from a wide range of source material; facilitate a deeper understanding of the creative and legal aspects of the cinematic development process; and yield production-ready shooting scripts for the practicum production cycle that maximize the potential of the short film form to deliver concentrated (primarily visual) narrative.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-4730
Prerequisites CINE 253 Adaptation AND CINE 260 Screen Treatment & Presentation
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 482 Editing Practicum
Workshop course partners students with other practicum students including directors, producers, cinematographers, production designers, and others, to produce a significant short film or video. Editing students continue to develop their skills in the editing room to tell a complete narrative story and to deliver postproduction materials suitable for complex sound design and mixing as well as cut lists for online editing and color correction. They will be expected to continue with the project until delivery of a complete master ready for exhibition on either film or a broadcast video format
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3400
Prerequisites CINE 230 Editing II
Co-requisites CINE 232 Post-Production Supervisor
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 6 Maximum Credits 6
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CINE 483 Directing Practicum
Workshop course requires that students direct a significant short film or video in collaboration with students from other concentrations. Emphasis is on visual and aural realization from a screenplay to affect an audience through dramatic screen presentation. Student directors take creative leadership of their project in collaboration with the producer. The ability to incorporate and maximize the value of contributions made by the cinematographers, editors, and other specialists will be assessed. Directors will create storyboards and shotlists, cast performers, participate in pre-production and production meetings, execute shooting within set production parameters, and supervise editing to a rough cut. They will be expected to continue with the project until delivery of a complete master ready for exhibition on either film or a broadcast video format.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-3304
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 6 Maximum Credits 6
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CINE 484 Producing V: Production Practicum
Workshop course partners students with other practicum students including directors, editors, post-production supervisors, production designers, and others to produce a significant, short production within the semester of no more than 10 minutes in length that is festival- and distribution-ready. Emphasis is on creative collaboration script development, crew assembly and pre-production, production management, and post-production supervision. Producing students are required to take Producing IV and provide a detailed application for entry into this course.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-4608
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 6 Maximum Credits 6
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CINE 485 Production Design Practicum
Workshop course asks students to serve as the production designer on a significant short film using a screenplay developed in a previous semester. They will collaborate with advanced student directors, producers, and cinematographers and conceive the overall visual concept for the film. Emphasis will be on the artistic relationship with the director and cinematographer, as well as on the organizational and financial relationship with the producer. Under the leadership of the producers, the production design students will assemble an art department with key personnel, develop and monitor the art department budget, and supervise the execution of their design.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-3004
Prerequisites CINE 107 Production Design I
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 6 Maximum Credits 6
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CINE 486 Cinematography Practicum
In this capstone class cinematography students work as Director of Photography on an advanced short film. Emphasis is on the visual and oral realization of a screenplay to affect an audience through dramatic screen presentation. Cinematographers will collaborate on storyboards, scout locations, develop the visual concept of the story, create floor plans for scenes, participate in pre-production and production meetings, execute shooting within production parameters, and supervise the timing of the final project.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-4210
Prerequisites CINE 406 Cinematography II
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4
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CINE 488 Editing Practicum I
Workshop class is the first of a two-semester course in which post-production students edit an Advanced Practicum film. Students will partner with other Practicum students including directors, producers, cinematographers, and others, to produce a significant short film or video. Editing students continue to develop their skills in the editing room by participating in the production phase through reviewing coverage, preparing dailies, and completing a work-in-process edit to guide effective completion of the narrative story. Students are expected to enroll in the second semester to complete a Master ready for exhibition.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-4400A
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4
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CINE 489 Screenwriting III: Senior Thesis LA
This course emphasizes the definition of a suitable story and the writing of a feature film script utilizing story, the exploration of genre, and the writing of a feature film script utilizing story development and writing tools such as computer software programs.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-3711L
Prerequisites CINE 378 Ideation & Theme: Portfolio Review
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 495 Directed Study
Course consists of learning activities involving student independence within the context of regular guidance and direction from a faculty advisor. Directed Studies are appropriate for students who wish to explore a subject beyond what is possible in regular courses or for students who wish to engage in a subject or activity not otherwise offered that semester by the College. Directed Studies involve close collaboration with a faculty advisor who will assist in development and design of the project, oversee its progress, evaluate the final results, and submit a grade.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-4080
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6
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CINE 496 Independent Project: Cinema and Television Arts
Course involves the instructor acting as the supervisor for students who meet the criteria necessary for enrollment. Students must submit a complete production packet prior to enrolling in this class.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-3098
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6
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CINE 501 Introduction to Cinema Directing
This course is designed to ensure that students entering the MFA Cinema Directing program in Cinema and Television Arts have a broad, basic knowledge of screen directing and how they will develop as directors as they proceed through the program. This immersive workshop uses lectures, demonstrations and hands-on practice to cover the key foundational principles, analytical skills and requisite technical information for Cinematic Expression in both documentary and fiction film. The course is led by a team of two Graduate level faculty members and includes case studies and guest presentations.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-6360AS
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4
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CINE 502 Introduction To Creative Producing
This course is designed to ensure students entering the MFA in Creative Producing degree have broad, basic knowledge about what creative producing is and how they will develop as creative producers as they proceed through the degree program. It is delivered as an immersive workshop made up of distinct but connected units that cover the key foundational principles and requisite technical information, and analytical skills using lectures and hands on demonstrations. The course is led by a team of two Graduate-level faculty members and includes case studies and guest presentations.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-6601AS
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4
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CINE 503 Directing for Character
With an emphasis on narrative form, the course covers basic skills in revealing complex fictional characters on the screen. Students learn to develop craft as well as personal voice with the study of the basic relationship between actor, text, and director, the course expands to include staging, rehearsal techniques, and effective critiquing skills. Emphasis is on the development of director’s breakdowns, beat analysis, rehearsal techniques, and casting. Students work on their own projects as well as those of their peers.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-6361
Co-requisites CINE 501 Introduction to Cinema Directing
Minimum Credits 6 Maximum Credits 6
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CINE 504 Writing for Producers
This course examines all forms of writing associated with professional producing ranging from business writing, creative writing (development), screenwriting, and writing associated with distribution, movie-marketing and exhibition.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-6721
Co-requisites CINE 502 CINE 502 Introduction To Creative Producing
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 505 The Professional Director
This Los Angeles-based course looks at the director at work. A variety of professional film and television directors will rotate through the course, showing how directors analyze and break down text, prepare for shooting, rehearse actors, and block action for the camera. Students will critique and analyze dailies with professional directors.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-5302L
Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4
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CINE 506 Acquisition, Development & Presentation
This course explores the development and execution of creative producing in all media. Starting with a story idea and ending with the distribution of a finished product, the creative producer is one of the few participants present throughout the entire life cycle. This course will include: finding, analyzing, and acquiring intellectual property, collaborating with writers/directors, pitching, packaging material, pre-visualization, casting, financing, and working with a line producer to execute the vision. In addition it will prepare students to take their creative ideas into the real world by tracking current changes in media relating to studios, financiers, web content, television and cable programming, and distributors.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-6612
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 507 Screenwriting I
This course introduces students to techniques for finding story ideas and for developing them in a variety of script formats. It aims to provide approaches to writing screenplays drawing from the writer’s own life experiences and direct observations; to facilitate a deeper understanding of the screenwriting process and writing for an audience; to teach students the elements and structure of Western drama as applied to short screenplay form, including character, story/plot and cause/effect structure; to assist in developing systematic work habits to carry the student from conception to idea development through revisions to polishing scenes/scripts; and to provide students with the opportunity for critique of their screenwriting. Students learn to write in treatment form as well as shot outline, split script, and master scene formats.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-6713
Co-requisites CINE 501 Introduction to Cinema Directing
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 508 Business and Legal
This course introduces basic legal and financial concepts for media producers including production financing, international co-productions, standard business practices in the entertainment industry, and essential components of entrepreneurial producing. Additionally it will explore contracts and negotiations associated with delivery items intellectual property ownership, copyright, rights agreements, licensing, and chain-of-title.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-6610
Co-requisites CINE 502 Introduction To Creative Producing
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 510 Line Producing I-A
The course focuses on teaching the student how to navigate themselves through pre-determined production obstacles commonly associated with line producing a short student film. This course teaches line producing students basic strategies of how to line produce a short film by assembling the preparation elements needed for filming and then for the day-to-day operation of the shooting set/principal photography. The course explores a Line Producer’s objective of maintaining financial responsibility while providing the production the support needed to place the Director’s vision on film. Their duties are supervisory, organizational, administrative and multifarious. The line producing student will learn how to work within the structure that is governed by budgets, schedules, casting, contracts and crew, etc.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-6604A
Co-requisites CINE 502 Introduction To Creative Producing or CINE 508 Business and Legal
Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2
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CINE 512 Story Development
This intensive, semester long workshop explores and develops a variety of ideation strategies subject to group critique resulting in script notes. Participants practice different pitching approaches. Developed ideas are drafted as short scripts and features. Emphasis is on rigorous research.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-6607
Prerequisites CINE 534 Cinema Studies I and CINE 506 Acquisition, Development & Presentation and CINE 508 Business and Legal
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 513 Ideation and Theme
Ideation & Theme (MFA) is a course designed to help students approach the creative process in multiple ways and to explore story and theme in conjunction with considerations of personal vision and expression. Students develop a range of simple ideas and work through the conceptualization and proposal process using various writing and visualization strategies. These film possibilities are filtered in a variety of ways throughout the course. Work completed earlier in the graduate program can be drawn from and work produced in this class may be further developed in subsequent graduate courses.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-6700
Prerequisites CINE 503 Directing for Character and CINE 507 Screenwriting I
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 515 Teacher Training in Cinema
This course provides students with an overview of teaching and learning theories, methodologies, techniques and practices as they relate to teaching creative and collaborative practices. Students are assigned as a Teaching Assistant to supplement classroom lectures, research and experiential activities. Students practice presentation skills, grading, creating lesson plans, working with students and implementing policies and procedures.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-5063
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 516 Advanced First Assistant Director
The course would focus on applied advanced First Assistant Director skills, including short and feature film scheduling, calling roll on-set, collaborating with the Director and other key crew during production, working in both union and non-union settings, and wrangling associated production documentation.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-5615
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 517 Producing: Distribution & Marketing Workshop (ONLINE)
Brief, intensive workshop examines distribution and marketing strategies in the film production cycle. Course focuses on the nature of distribution deals, marketing campaigns, and finding and researching distributors. Course utilizes hybrid teaching-learning modes, meeting one time while students complete coursework and providing additional feedback online.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-5621
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 518 Producing: Film Financing Workshop (ONLINE)+
Brief, intensive workshop examines methods and types of film financing, placing emphasis on using appropriate legal structures for each production. Instruction explores the current state of the market to determine appropriate budgets. Course utilizes hybrid teaching-learning modes, meeting one time while students complete coursework and providing additional feedback online.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-5622
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 519 Producing: Legal Elements Workshop (ONLINE)
Brief, intensive workshop examines basic legal elements and requirements for filmmakers, including copyright, literary options, clearances, and deals. Content addresses the method for finding an entertainment and intellectual property attorney. Course utilizes hybrid teaching-learning modes, meeting one time while students complete coursework and providing additional feedback online.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-5623
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 520 Concept, Pitch & Sales - Los Angeles
This course examines how films are sold to major studios, producers, and distributors. In this class, students learn first how to shape the initial idea, how to deliver the pitch, and how to negotiate a deal. Course emphasizes not only the theory of the pitch but its practice as well.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-5630L
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 522 Critical Analysis of Contemporary Film & Media
This seminar critically examines contemporary trends in domestic and international film, television and media ideas, production and distribution and its symbiotic relationship with culture. Select indigenous industries and the role of the Internet in the globalization of entertainment are examined.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-6609
Prerequisites CINE 534 Cinema Studies I
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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