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CINE 214 Music for Cinema
Students are introduced to the language of cinema and how composers and music supervisors serve the needs of the frame while exploring the functions of the score and music licensing. Textural conceptualization and technology expanding emotional resonance are examined. Understanding the vocabulary of music, contemporary targeting issues impacting tone, voicing, spotting and the business of synchronization to picture are a vital component. Students develop musical application skills using analysis and creative projects to foster and enhance their understanding.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-2104
Prerequisites CINE 102 Cinema Notebooks and CINE 103 Cinema Image and Process or MEDI 101 Cinematic Storytelling and MEDI 102 Cinema and Television Production
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 215 Cinematography:Camera Seminar
Course gives students a working knowledge of 16mm, Super-16 and beginning digital motion picture camera systems. It provides hands-on training in camera handling and assisting. Students learn basic image acquisition techniques based on optics, focal length, stops, and depth-of-field. Students are introduced to set protocol and the duties of the different members of the camera department.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-2202
Prerequisites CINE 102 Cinema Notebooks and CINE 103 Cinema Image and Process or MEDI 101 Cinematic Storytelling and MEDI 102 Cinema and Television Production
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 216 Image Design for Cinema
In this course students will examine the design of images and their critical role in how filmmakers communicate story. Through lectures, practical assignments and critique, students refine their ability to use visual components to see, conceive and communicate most effectively. This course bridges the gap between theory and practice and highlights the relationship between story structure and visual structure.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-2201
Prerequisites CINE 102 Cinema Notebooks and CINE 103 Cinema Image and Process or MEDI 101 Cinematic Storytelling and MEDI 102 Cinema and Television Production
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 221 Photo Theory/Lab Practice
This course deals with the technologies of image acquisition, from the first photographic emulsion to today’s digital sensors. It offers in-depth studies of photosensitive emulsions, latent image theory, laboratory processing and printing, mechanical properties of film, image quality, densitometry, sensitometry and digital sensors, scanning, and archiving. A brief history of photochemical and digital photography is included.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-2216
Prerequisites CINE 121 Lighting I and CINE 216 Image Design for Cinema
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 222 New Media and Emerging Video Practices
This class will introduce students to practices found in new media and emerging video and screen-based storytelling. Students will participate in hands-on demonstrations as new technologies and techniques will be presented and contextualized. Students will research contemporary examples, practitioners, and production methodologies while completing short video projects utilizing the skills they learned in class. Students experiment with various approaches to visual storytelling and think outside the traditional cinematic and television formats. Some areas discussed include 360 video and interactive storytelling.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly TELE 235
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 223 Cinema Color I
Students acquire a working knowledge of the aesthetics and technical aspects of the color correction process. Content addresses theory and application of color correction, image control and manipulation techniques. Principles and history of color theory and the tools available to filmmakers are explored through lecture, interactive computer exercises, and hands-on work with current professional color correction software.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-2208
Prerequisites CINE 130 Editing I or CINE 216 Image Design for Cinema
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 224 Color Correction for Editors
Course is designed for any Cinema or Television student with specific value for the editor. Students acquire a working knowledge of aesthetics and the technical aspects of color correction as it applies to the editing environment. Course involves lecture and practical experience. Students may bring an existing project to work with during the workshop part of the class, or exercises will be provided for them.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-2206J
Prerequisites CINE 230 Editing II
Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2
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CINE 225 Cinema Directing I
Course builds upon the relationship between actor, text, and director and expands to include camera blocking, basic scene coverage, additional rehearsal techniques, and effective critiquing skills. Emphasis is on the development of director’s breakdowns, pre-visualization, set-etiquette, and fundamental collaboration with key department heads. Scene work culminates with the blocking and staging of a cinematic narrative scene.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-2301
Prerequisites CINE 128 Acting and Directing Workshop
Minimum Credits 6 Maximum Credits 6
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CINE 226 Digital Workflow
This repeatable course consists of rotating subjects supporting the creative workflow of digital cinema. This course would be of interest to developing editors, cinematographers, post-production supervisors, VFX supervisors or anyone else seeking fluency in the contemporary digital landscape. Classes may include lectures, demonstrations, site visits and/or practice.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-2404
Prerequisites CINE 130 Editing I
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 227 Advanced Post-Production Tools
This repeatable course consists of rotating subjects which support students to advance and deepen their skills in the tools used in editing and post-production workflows. Students will learn through lectures, demonstrations and exercises as they deepen and apply their skills in editing and post-production.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-2406
Prerequisites CINE 130 Editing I
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 229 The Assistant Editor
This course examines the role of the feature film assistant editor past, present and future, with a focus on providing hands-on experience using traditional and current skills associated with this position. In addition to exploring the responsibilities associated with the preparation and organization of digital elements students will conform a short film from a digital edit as a basis of understanding the evolution of current post-production processes
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-2425
Prerequisites CINE 130 Editing I
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 230 Editing II
Hands-on course helps students continue to develop the necessary skills to become professional editors. Editing projects are increasingly more complex, concluding with finishing a short film. Communicating and collaborating with a director is emphasized. Students use professional state-of-the-art non-linear digital editing equipment and receive ongoing critiques of their work to determine their proficiency of craft and creativity. Understanding NLE workflow from capturing footage through exporting the final project is emphasized.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-2402
Prerequisites CINE 130 Editing I and CINE 131 Editing I Lab
Concurrent Requisite CINE 231 Editing II Studio
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 231 Editing II Studio
This course must be taken concurrently with Editing II. Students develop advanced editing skills using a state-of-the-art digital editing platform. Skill development includes: editing techniques, sound design, color correction, simple compositing, and exporting to successfully complete the Editing II course projects. Content is presented through demonstrations, tutorials and hands-on practice. Ongoing critique and one-on-one problem solving are offered to determine proficiency and advancement in use of the platform.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-2402B
Prerequisites CINE 130 Editing I
Concurrent Requisite CINE 230 Editing II
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 232 Post-Production Supervisor
Course is designed for the advanced editing student who is working as a post-production producer. Content emphasizes pre-production decisions necessary for post-production: scheduling, budgeting, hiring personnel and allocating facilities and equipment. Class explores various national and international distribution requirements. Students learn strategies for communicating with third-party vendors including sound, labs, and post-production houses. Course uses a feature length film as model.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-2427
Prerequisites CINE 130 Editing I and CINE 131 Editing I Studio
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 234 Cinema Analysis and Criticism
Course is a writing-and-research-intensive introduction to cinema studies. Students are taught how to write about cinema and media using different approaches including: formal analysis, ideological analysis, and historical research. In order to focus more on writing and course content, screenings will be limited. The screenings may change at the discretion of the instructor but the nature and number of the assignments will remain the same for each offering of the course.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-2500
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 235A Authorship:
Screening/discussion course is an intensive study of a single director (or directors) as auteur. The featured director(s) changes each semester. Class examines recurring themes, stylistic innovations, and differentiating interpretations of directors’ films. Course may be repeated as featured directors change.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly CINE 235
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 235B Authorship:
Screening/discussion course is an intensive study of a single director (or directors) as auteur. The featured director(s) changes each semester. Class examines recurring themes, stylistic innovations, and differentiating interpretations of directors’ films. Course may be repeated as featured directors change.
Repeatable: Y
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 235C Authorship:
Screening/discussion course is an intensive study of a single director (or directors) as auteur. The featured director(s) changes each semester. Class examines recurring themes, stylistic innovations, and differentiating interpretations of directors’ films. Course may be repeated as featured directors change.
Repeatable: Y
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 235D Authorship:
Screening/discussion course is an intensive study of a single director (or directors) as auteur. The featured director(s) changes each semester. Class examines recurring themes, stylistic innovations, and differentiating interpretations of directors’ films. Course may be repeated as featured directors change.
Repeatable: Y
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 235E Authorship:
Screening/discussion course is an intensive study of a single director (or directors) as auteur. The featured director(s) changes each semester. Class examines recurring themes, stylistic innovations, and differentiating interpretations of directors’ films. Course may be repeated as featured directors change.
Repeatable: Y
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 235F Authorship:
Screening/discussion course is an intensive study of a single director (or directors) as auteur. The featured director(s) changes each semester. Class examines recurring themes, stylistic innovations, and differentiating interpretations of directors’ films. Course may be repeated as featured directors change.
Repeatable: Y
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 238A Cinema History and Culture
This course examines historical and cultural issues in cinema. Topics may include specific genres, national cinemas, representations of gender and sexuality, non-narrative cinema, or the aesthetic impact of technological innovations. Course may be repeated as topics change. Students will research and write papers and be involved in a number of other in-class and online research activities to help engage them actively with the topics.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly CINE 238
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 238B Cinema History and Culture
This course examines historical and cultural issues in cinema. Topics may include specific genres, national cinemas, representations of gender and sexuality, non-narrative cinema, or the aesthetic impact of technological innovations. Course may be repeated as topics change. Students will research and write papers and be involved in a number of other in-class and online research activities to help engage them actively with the topics.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 238C Cinema History and Culture
This course examines historical and cultural issues in cinema. Topics may include specific genres, national cinemas, representations of gender and sexuality, non-narrative cinema, or the aesthetic impact of technological innovations. Course may be repeated as topics change. Students will research and write papers and be involved in a number of other in-class and online research activities to help engage them actively with the topics.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 238D Cinema History and Culture
This course examines historical and cultural issues in cinema. Topics may include specific genres, national cinemas, representations of gender and sexuality, non-narrative cinema, or the aesthetic impact of technological innovations. Course may be repeated as topics change. Students will research and write papers and be involved in a number of other in-class and online research activities to help engage them actively with the topics.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 238E Cinema History and Culture
This course examines historical and cultural issues in cinema. Topics may include specific genres, national cinemas, representations of gender and sexuality, non-narrative cinema, or the aesthetic impact of technological innovations. Course may be repeated as topics change. Students will research and write papers and be involved in a number of other in-class and online research activities to help engage them actively with the topics.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 238F Cinema History and Culture
This course examines historical and cultural issues in cinema. Topics may include specific genres, national cinemas, representations of gender and sexuality, non-narrative cinema, or the aesthetic impact of technological innovations. Course may be repeated as topics change. Students will research and write papers and be involved in a number of other in-class and online research activities to help engage them actively with the topics.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 239A New Perspectives on Cinema Studies
This one-credit course examines historical and cultural issues in cinema not usually discussed in a fifteen week course. Topics may include specific genres, national cinemas, representations of gender and sexuality, non-narrative cinema, or the aesthetic impact of technological innovations. Course may be repeated as topics change. Students will research and write papers and be involved in a number of other in-class and online research activities to help engage them actively with the topics.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly CINE 239
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 239B New Perspectives on Cinema Studies
This one-credit course examines historical and cultural issues in cinema not usually discussed in a fifteen week course. Topics may include specific genres, national cinemas, representations of gender and sexuality, non-narrative cinema, or the aesthetic impact of technological innovations. Course may be repeated as topics change. Students will research and write papers and be involved in a number of other in-class and online research activities to help engage them actively with the topics.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 239C New Perspectives on Cinema Studies
This one-credit course examines historical and cultural issues in cinema not usually discussed in a fifteen week course. Topics may include specific genres, national cinemas, representations of gender and sexuality, non-narrative cinema, or the aesthetic impact of technological innovations. Course may be repeated as topics change. Students will research and write papers and be involved in a number of other in-class and online research activities to help engage them actively with the topics.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 239D New Perspectives on Cinema Studies
This one-credit course examines historical and cultural issues in cinema not usually discussed in a fifteen week course. Topics may include specific genres, national cinemas, representations of gender and sexuality, non-narrative cinema, or the aesthetic impact of technological innovations. Course may be repeated as topics change. Students will research and write papers and be involved in a number of other in-class and online research activities to help engage them actively with the topics.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 239E New Perspectives on Cinema Studies
This one-credit course examines historical and cultural issues in cinema not usually discussed in a fifteen week course. Topics may include specific genres, national cinemas, representations of gender and sexuality, non-narrative cinema, or the aesthetic impact of technological innovations. Course may be repeated as topics change. Students will research and write papers and be involved in a number of other in-class and online research activities to help engage them actively with the topics.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 240A Cinema and Global Media Culture
This course examines the impact of global media culture on cinema history and aesthetics. Topics may include cinematic adaptations of video games, graphic novels, or television series, as well as an analysis of how distribution models and international film festivals help determine cinematic form and audience reception. Course may be repeated as topics change. Students will research and write papers and be involved in a number of other in-class and online research activities to help them engage actively with the topics.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly CINE 240
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 240B Cinema and Global Media Culture
This course examines the impact of global media culture on cinema history and aesthetics. Topics may include cinematic adaptations of video games, graphic novels, or television series, as well as an analysis of how distribution models and international film festivals help determine cinematic form and audience reception. Course may be repeated as topics change. Students will research and write papers and be involved in a number of other in-class and online research activities to help them engage actively with the topics.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 240C Cinema and Global Media Culture
This course examines the impact of global media culture on cinema history and aesthetics. Topics may include cinematic adaptations of video games, graphic novels, or television series, as well as an analysis of how distribution models and international film festivals help determine cinematic form and audience reception. Course may be repeated as topics change. Students will research and write papers and be involved in a number of other in-class and online research activities to help them engage actively with the topics.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 240D Cinema and Global Media Culture
This course examines the impact of global media culture on cinema history and aesthetics. Topics may include cinematic adaptations of video games, graphic novels, or television series, as well as an analysis of how distribution models and international film festivals help determine cinematic form and audience reception. Course may be repeated as topics change. Students will research and write papers and be involved in a number of other in-class and online research activities to help them engage actively with the topics.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 240E Cinema and Global Media Culture
This course examines the impact of global media culture on cinema history and aesthetics. Topics may include cinematic adaptations of video games, graphic novels, or television series, as well as an analysis of how distribution models and international film festivals help determine cinematic form and audience reception. Course may be repeated as topics change. Students will research and write papers and be involved in a number of other in-class and online research activities to help them engage actively with the topics.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 241A New Trends in Global Cinema
This one-credit course examines the impact of global media culture on cinema history and aesthetics in the form of topics not usually discussed in a fifteen week course. Topics may include cinematic adaptations of video games, graphic novels, or television series, as well as an examination of how distribution models and international film festivals help determine cinematic form and audience reception. Course may be repeated as topics change. Students will research and write papers and be involved in a number of other in-class and online research activities to help engage them actively with the topics.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly CINE 241
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 241B New Trends in Global Cinema
This one-credit course examines the impact of global media culture on cinema history and aesthetics in the form of topics not usually discussed in a fifteen week course. Topics may include cinematic adaptations of video games, graphic novels, or television series, as well as an examination of how distribution models and international film festivals help determine cinematic form and audience reception. Course may be repeated as topics change. Students will research and write papers and be involved in a number of other in-class and online research activities to help engage them actively with the topics.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 241C New Trends in Global Cinema
This one-credit course examines the impact of global media culture on cinema history and aesthetics in the form of topics not usually discussed in a fifteen week course. Topics may include cinematic adaptations of video games, graphic novels, or television series, as well as an examination of how distribution models and international film festivals help determine cinematic form and audience reception. Course may be repeated as topics change. Students will research and write papers and be involved in a number of other in-class and online research activities to help engage them actively with the topics.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 241D New Trends in Global Cinema
This one-credit course examines the impact of global media culture on cinema history and aesthetics in the form of topics not usually discussed in a fifteen week course. Topics may include cinematic adaptations of video games, graphic novels, or television series, as well as an examination of how distribution models and international film festivals help determine cinematic form and audience reception. Course may be repeated as topics change. Students will research and write papers and be involved in a number of other in-class and online research activities to help engage them actively with the topics.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 241E New Trends in Global Cinema
This one-credit course examines the impact of global media culture on cinema history and aesthetics in the form of topics not usually discussed in a fifteen week course. Topics may include cinematic adaptations of video games, graphic novels, or television series, as well as an examination of how distribution models and international film festivals help determine cinematic form and audience reception. Course may be repeated as topics change. Students will research and write papers and be involved in a number of other in-class and online research activities to help engage them actively with the topics.
Repeatable: Y
Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 243 Studies in Film Aesthetics
Course investigates how artistic and cultural movements and technological innovations determine and enhance the aesthetics development of the medium. Previous topics have included expressionism; surrealism; and aspects of film: cinemascope, technicolor, stereophonic sound, and 3-D. Course may be repeated as topics change.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-2561
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 245 Screenwriting II: The Feature Film
Course teaches students to produce longer and more complex screenplays; facilitates a deeper understanding of the screenwriting process; and enables students to develop character, story, and linear structure. Students master systematic work habits in order to fully develop the screenplay, from initial idea to completed script. Course also provides students with the opportunity for consistent critique of their screenwriting.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-2710
Prerequisites CINE 145 Screenwriting I: Writing the Short Film
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 248 Producing I: Production Team
Course explores the production team and the role of the line producer, unit production manager, production manager, and assistant directors in managing the physical production process of producing a film. This process will include budgeting and scheduling, and managing cast, crew and vendor relationships. Additional team members are examined, including the roles of the casting director, location manager, production coordinator, and script supervisor. The post-production supervisor position is discussed including post-production scheduling, budgeting, and meeting delivery requirements for distribution and film festivals.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-2600
Prerequisites MEDI 101 Cinematic Storytelling and MEDI 102 Cinema and Television Production or CINE 102 Cinema Notebooks and CINE 103 Cinema Image and Process
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 249 Introduction to Script Supervising
Course focuses on the role of the script supervisor, a film profession responsible for maintaining script continuity, working with the director to ensure that scenes are completely covered, and preparing daily notes for the editor and post-supervisor. Course will also cover the script supervisor as a critical crew position and will enhance students’ understanding of the multitude of details that must be addressed in production and the resulting impact on post-production through the creation and dissemination of associated on-set documentation and the management of continuity protocol.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-2600J
Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2
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CINE 250 Advanced Script Supervising
This three-credit hour course is affiliated with the advanced production and offers students an opportunity to learn about the role of Script Supervisor by serving as Script Supervisors on a film. Learning will be delivered through instructor mentoring and focus on practical preparation of scripts notes, lining scripts, assigning slate numbers, working with the various departments during production and set etiquette.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-2612
Prerequisites CINE 249 Introduction to Script Supervising
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 253 Adaptation
Course examines problems, obstacles, and reconstruction principles inherent in adapting a literary work for the screen. Content focuses primarily on the kinds of short work attractive to low-budget filmmakers and works possible within the Columbia production program.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-2715
Prerequisites CINE 145 Screenwriting I: Writing the Short Film
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 255 Seminar in Directing:
As a filmmaker, the approach to directing specific genres - like action or horror films - can be vastly different than directing dramatic and/ or static scenes. This is a rotating subjects course that will focus on the basics of directing a specific genre, driven as practical matters and will further reinforce directing the script/polishing, shot design, storyboarding, blocking, editing/delivery, and safety.
Repeatable: Y
Prerequisites CINE 225 Cinema Directing I
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 260 Screen Treatment & Presentation
Course develops students’ skills in presenting their film ideas orally and in written treatment format. Course builds on concepts learned in Screenwriting I and Screenwriting II. Students master techniques to improve their oral pitching skills, learn how to write a query letter, and explore ways to improve their storytelling ideas. Course emphasizes rewriting and developing skills to sell screenplays.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-2740
Prerequisites CINE 245 Screenwriting II: The Feature Film or CINE 140 Script Analysis for Cinema
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 261 Intro to Producing the Commercial
Course provides an introduction to the role of a commercial producer focusing on the advertising industry, the agencies, the creatives, bidding, as well as the physical/ logistical elements of producing commercials including scheduling, budgeting, crewing up, casting, working with vendors, for stage and location shooting. Course will cover a wide range of short-form content including commercials, corporate videos, to new media content.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3615
Prerequisites CINE 248 Producing I: Production Team or TELE 210 The Television Producer
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 267 Documentary Production Module I: Location Camera and Sound
This intensive workshop course gives students an introduction in basic documentary field production. The emphasis centers on camera operation including filming the essential shots that are key to the edit of a documentary sequence, including: tripod usage, cinema verite and various other handheld styles of documentary filming. Students will learn the basic aspects of recording location documentary sound with an emphasis on microphone placement, booming and the usage of wireless and hard-wired microphones. The focus of the course will teach students how to work in a two person documentary team using minimal equipment to capture intimate moments. Additional topics include set protocols specific to documentary, crew coordination strategies, gear checklists and preparation, logging, data wrangling and the basics of delivering media to the editorial team.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-2809
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 268 Producing and Directing the Interview
Intensive course gives students a comprehensive advanced approach to producing and directing interviews in assorted scenarios and venues. Students will prepare question banks based on pre-interviews and research. Students will practice friendly, adversarial, and investigative techniques. Additional topics include booking, scheduling, visualizing the interview, crew communication, coordination, and creative directing for specific styles. Ethics and legal aspects of the interview will be explored.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-2811
Prerequisites CINE 269 Documentary Production III: Intermediate Field Production or TELE 212 Television Arts: Writing and TELE 330 Production and Editing II
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 272 Interdisciplinary Documentary Producing
This course covers the fundamentals of producing developing and funding nonfiction projects in multiple disciplines. Topics will include grant writing, pitching, research strategies, audience development, exhibition and distribution strategies. Emphasis will focus on creating plans for storytelling projects in the current multi-platform nonfiction landscape. The course will address issues of producing in video, audio, photography and written forms for distribution individually or across platforms.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-2825
Prerequisites CINE 148 Introduction to Documentary â-‘
Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2
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CINE 275 Experimental Production I
Project-centered course engages students in non-narrative, alternative aspects of video and digital production. Students develop an aesthetic that explores, challenges, extends, or subverts mainstream narrative or documentary structures. Topics include camera experimentation and image manipulation; development of personal, political, or social themes; and distribution and marketing of experimental work.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-2901
Prerequisites CINE 102 Cinema Notebooks and CINE 103 Cinema Image and Process or MEDI 101 Cinematic Storytelling and MEDI 102 Cinema and Television Production
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 306 Cinematography I
Through still and motion picture exercises, this course focuses on the interpretation of artistic goals by exploring the use of camera movement, focal length, depth of field, camera angles, etc. Students begin by developing different creative visualizations using pre-production tools including storyboards, shot lists, and overheads. Technical issues including acquisition formats, exposure, and lighting are analyzed.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3202
Prerequisites CINE 215 Cinematography:Camera Seminar and CINE 221 Photo Theory/Lab Practice
Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4
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CINE 307 Production Design II
Building on the concepts introduced in Production Design I, this course expands on the foundation of the student as designer with an emphasis on the development of the visual concept and collaboration with a director and cinematographer. New material includes the creative and technical aspects of the art department as they relate to physical production and location modification. Course covers the traditional skills of sketching, drafting, and concept art and explains how they are used to communicate a designer’s vision to production crews. Students will be required to collaborate with peers on an advanced production.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-2010
Prerequisites CINE 107 Production Design I
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 308 Digital Cinematography
This course is devoted to digital acquisition and to collaboration with directors on set. Cinematographers will work with a student enrolled in an advanced directing class, teaming up to create a pre-production plan and to shoot and color correct a short narrative story. Students will also shoot a non-narrative short such as a music video, commercial, or documentary., Using advanced digital systems, cinematography students learn all aspects of digital workflow from pre-production through post production.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3204
Prerequisites CINE 306 Cinematography I
Requirements Permission Required (DP)
Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4
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CINE 310 Cinema Models and Miniatures
Course emphasizes the design and technical ability needed to create miniatures and models for cinema. Film examples will be analyzed for scale, medium, and style. Students will be introduced to physical modeling and sculpting techniques, media, scale, and architectural terms and concepts. Beginning from sketches and draftings, students will design and build miniature objects, environments, and characters utilizing a variety of materials.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-2015
Prerequisites CINE 107 Production Design I and CINE 208 Cinema Set Design and Construction or CINE 205 Cinema Props
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 311 Post-Production Audio II
Course explores the post-production techniques used in creating effective audio for cinema. Students develop aesthetic judgment by analyzing a variety of soundtracks and develop technical skills, including track building, ADR, Foley, and mixing, by employing these techniques in the design and creation of their own soundtracks.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-2102
Prerequisites AUDI 324 Audio for Visual Media I or CINE 211 Post-Production Audio I
Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4
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CINE 313 Location Sound Recording II
This course applies the principles and applications of production sound recording for cinema and television arts by providing sound services for advanced student productions. Under faculty supervision students will examine professional protocols and practical applications of production sound for discussions, exchange of experiences, and problem solving.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-3101
Prerequisites AUDI 122 DAW Production Techniques and Applications or CINE 213 Location Sound Recording I
Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4
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CINE 315 Cinematography: Camera Seminar II
This class expands upon concepts introduced in Camera Seminar I. In addition to the technical aspects of high end, professional level camera systems, this course focuses on the skills required to be a professional operator and the first assistant. Instruction also covers support equipment including the dolly, jib, gear head, and video assist. The course focuses on how various camera skills can be used to enhance storytelling.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3201
Prerequisites CINE 215 Cinematography:Camera Seminar and CINE 321 Lighting II
Concurrent Requisite CINE 316 Camera Seminar II Studio
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 316 Camera Seminar II Studio
Camera Seminar II Studio is mandatory concurrent course for those enrolled in Camera Seminar II. In it, students will work in groups acting as operators and focus pullers for in-class exercises. These exercises expand upon the skills students are developing in Camera Seminar II, applying them to more complex and complete storytelling assignments.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3201A
Concurrent Requisite CINE 315 Cinematography: Camera Seminar II
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 318 The Art and Craft of Foley
This workshop course offers hands-on projects designed to prepare students to cue, perform, and edit Foley tracks as needed for cinema, animation, television, and games. Small class projects will include studio time for performing footsteps, props, and cloth for Foley. Final projects will require the cueing, shooting, and editing of Foley on student projects.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-2106
Prerequisites CINE 311 Post-Production Audio II
Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2
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CINE 319 The Art and Craft of Automated Dialogue Replacement
This workshop course offers hands-on projects designed to prepare students to cue, perform, and edit Automated Dialogue Replacement tracks as needed for cinema, animation, television, and games. Small class projects will include studio time for recording principal performers and group ADR. Final projects will require the cueing, shooting, and editing of ADR on student projects.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-2107
Prerequisites CINE 311 Post-Production Audio II
Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2
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CINE 321 Lighting II
This course expands upon the skills and concepts introduced in Lighting I that revolve around the aesthetics and technical aspects of lighting for narrative storytelling. Using discovery and experimentation, it focuses on the emotional impact of visual image. Both lecture and hands-on practical experience are used to stress the technical elements necessary to accomplish the sophisticated marriage of art and science. Lighting II Studio is a concurrent requisite.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3200
Prerequisites CINE 121 Lighting I and CINE 215 Cinematography:Camera Seminar
Concurrent Requisite CINE 322 Lighting II Studio
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 322 Lighting II Studio
This course is designed to work in conjunction with Lighting II and Directing II. Each lighting student will be paired with a Directing II student and collaborate on class exercises, involving a full array of pre-visualization and production techniques with an emphasis on collaboration and communication. The coursework expands upon the skills cinematography students learn in Lighting II, applying them to more complex and complete storytelling assignments.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-3200A
Concurrent Requisite CINE 321 Lighting II
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 323 Cinema Color II
Course expands upon concepts taught in Cinema Color I by providing students with training in the theory and techniques of telecine and digital intermediates. Students apply their knowledge of the technical aspects and aesthetics of the celluloid-based film transfers and digital manipulation. Principles of color theory and the tools available to filmmakers engaged in the process of electronic media and image manipulation are explored through lecture, interactive computer exercises, and hands-on telecine experience.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3208
Prerequisites CINE 223 Cinema Color I
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 325 Cinema Directing II
Course continues the development of collaboration with actors and key department heads while introducing the principles of cinematic coverage and providing the opportunity to develop personal directorial style. Pre-visualization, fundamental considerations of location shooting, and the use of editing and audio design in cinematic storytelling are emphasized. Student work culminates with the direction of scenes on both studio and location.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3302
Prerequisites CINE 225 Cinema Directing I
Minimum Credits 6 Maximum Credits 6
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CINE 326 Directing Techniques for the Micro Feature
This course examines the skills and aesthetics of micro-budgeted feature film cinema as created by directors working outside the established mainstream. Utilizing innovative hardware/software and ideology, micro feature directors evolve the art and practice of their cinema by creating and challenging financial boundaries, narrative topics and develop personal perspective(s) using entrepreneurial and cost/ time effective methodologies. A variety of proven authorial and developmental approaches shall be used for classroom practice with professional examples, instructor guidance and targeted student assignments/ projects.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-4305
Prerequisites CINE 325 Cinema Directing II
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 327 Digital Imaging Technician and On-Set Post-Production
This an intermediate-to-advanced, highly technical course in the use of on-set data management. Students will learn the responsibilities of a Digital Imaging Technician (DIT) and will gain experience working on-set for advanced productions. As a member of the Camera Department, students will practice the critical role of interfacing between the production and post teams. A basic understanding of advanced camera systems, data management or color grading is required.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-3211
Prerequisites CINE 230 Editing II or CINE 315 Cinematography: Camera Seminar II
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 329 Scene Study with Camera: A Directing Workshop
Course focuses on narrative scene work that is written by the director. Two scenes are developed, cast, rehearsed, shot on location and edited. Collaboration with a cinematographer remains a focus. Critical evaluation during each stage in the process emphasizes identifying the opportunities to revise and improve the material as the director realizes the dramatic potential of a scene and continues to develop a personal style.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-3305
Prerequisites CINE 325 Cinema Directing II
Minimum Credits 6 Maximum Credits 6
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CINE 332 Editing the Short Form
Students edit commercials, trailers, music videos and other promotional short form content under tight deadlines while learning skills relevant to editing spots in a professional environment.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3404
Prerequisites CINE 230 Editing II
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 333 Career Planning in Post-Production
This workshop is encouraged for all students in postproduction. Students will create a career plan package including: written plan, resume, bio, web presence and samples of original work. Site visits are included. Students are urged to take this repeatable course during Junior and/or Senior yeaer.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-3410
Prerequisites CINE 230 Editing II
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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CINE 334 Experimental Editing
Through a series of exercises, course teaches alternative editing strategies for both narrative and non-narrative work. Students cut three short projects based on each covered experimental tradition and then a longer final project. Projects develop with increasing complexity and enable students to apply their ideas about experimental film to their material to develop their own style and aesthetic. Students receive critiques of their work after each project to determine the progress of their proficiency of craft and creativity.
Repeatable: N
Formerly 24-3429
Prerequisites CINE 130 Editing I
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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CINE 335 Editing the Documentary
This course provides documentary editing experience and creative collaborations on original work developed by students in the documentary production classes. Pre-production planning, on set workflow issues and handling large amounts of media in the edit room are discussed from the post-production perspective. Students will add original creative work for their editing reels from the projects completed in this class.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly CINE 228
Prerequisites CINE 130 Editing I or CINE 267 Documentary Production Module I: Location Camera and Sound or TELE 230 Production and Editing I
Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4
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CINE 338 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 24-3430J
Prerequisites CINE 130 Editing I
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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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 344 Careers in Film and Television
This course takes a hands-on approach to helping CTVA students learn what will face them as professionals in film and TV ranging from the basics of freelancing to working in the industry as an employee and managing one’s personal affairs such as taxes, setting up a company, and signing an employment agreement for a media company.
Repeatable: N
Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1
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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
Prerequisites CINE 104 Fundamentals of Casting
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 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.
Repeatable: Y
Formerly 24-3608
Prerequisites 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: Y
Formerly 24-3602J
Prerequisites CINE 248 Producing I: Production Team
Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2
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CINE 355A 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 CINE 355
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 355B 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
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 355C 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
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 355D 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
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 355E 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
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 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 needed 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 or MEDI 101 Cinematic Storytelling and MEDI 102 Cinema and Television Production
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 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
Course introduces the role of the producer in development, production, postproduction, and delivery of commercials. 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 261 Intro to Producing the Commercial
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3
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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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