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2014-2015 Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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  • 24-4425 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.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2401 Editing I 
  

  • 24-4426 Photoshop Workshop for Editors

    Intensive two-day seminar course in Photoshop assists editing students in video finishing. Photoshop can be used as a tool for graphics production for film and video. Students will learn titling, alpha channels, mattes, etc.

    1 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2401 Editing I  
  

  • 24-4426J Photoshop Workshop for Editors

    Intensive two-day seminar course in Photoshop assists editing students in video finishing. Photoshop can be used as a tool for graphics production for film and video. Students will learn titling, alpha channels, mattes, etc.

    1 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2401 Editing I  or 24-4426J
  

  • 24-4427 Post Production Supervisor

    Course is designed for the advanced editing student who is working as a postproduction producer. Content emphasizes pre-production decisions necessary for postproduction: 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 postproduction houses. Course uses a feature length film as model.

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-4428 Online Editing

    Course provides an advanced editing experience in three areas: developing skills to manipulate large amounts of film and audio material, acquiring the means to apply those skills, and using Avid Media/Film Composer equipment to complete assigned projects. Students also learn the organizational skills necessary to edit projects on the Avid Media/Film Composer and to gain advanced knowledge of post-production protocols in digital editing. Students receive critiques of their work after each project to determine the development of their proficiency of craft and creativity. Course culminates in the editing of a film project from off-line to on-line and the generation of a keycode cutlist.

    4 Credits
    Repeatable
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2402 Editing II 
  

  • 24-4429 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.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2401 Editing I 
  

  • 24-4430 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.

    1 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2401 Editing I 
  

  • 24-4430J 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.

    1 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2401 Editing I 
  

  • 24-4433 Studies in Motion Graphics

    Repeatable course allows students to study and analyze a different style of motion graphics each semester. Throughout the course, students investigate case studies in the selected style and apply it to their own work. Students should already have a working knowledge of Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator at an intermediate level. Students will study the aesthetic and technical history of digital special effects. Through focusing on case studies, students will breakdown the process of 3-D compositing and apply to in-class exercises. Students will also collaborate in compositing 3-D and live action elements to a special effects scene.

    4 Credits
    Repeatable
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-4420 Motion Graphics I 
  

  • 24-4492 Independent Project: Postproduction

    Course provides the independent editor with an opportunity to log and organize his/her project in preparation for editing.

    1-6 Credits
    Repeatable
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2401 Editing I  
    Requirements Application Required and Permission of Coordinatr
  

  • 24-4493 Independent Project: Editing Narrative Short

    Course provides the independent editor or independent filmmaker with an opportunity to edit a short narrative film.

    1-6 Credits
    Repeatable
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2401 Editing I 
    Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
  

  • 24-4605 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.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2031 Moving Image Production II  COREQUISITES: 24-3600 Producing I: Production Team 
  

  • 24-4606 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.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-3600 Producing I: Production Team 
  

  • 24-4607 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.

    3 Credits
    Repeatable
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-3600 Producing I: Production Team  COREQUISITES: 24-4605 Producing II: Legal and Financial Options  or 24-4606
  

  • 24-4608 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.

    6 Credits
    Repeatable
    Requirements Permission of Coordinatr
  

  • 24-4610 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 Producer’s 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.

    6 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-3600 Producing I: Production Team 
  

  • 24-4612 Script Supervision Workshop

    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.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2031 Moving Image Production II 
  

  • 24-4614 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.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2031 Moving Image Production II 
  

  • 24-4615 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.

    3 Credits
    Repeatable
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-4614 The Assistant Director’s Workshop 
  

  • 24-4621 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.

    1 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-3600 Producing I: Production Team 
  

  • 24-4622 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.

    1 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-3600 Producing I: Production Team 
  

  • 24-4623 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.

    1 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-3600 Producing I: Production Team 
  

  • 24-4626 Producing III: Film Financing

    Advanced producing course covers the financial, legal, and packaging requirements necessary to produce feature narrative and documentary films. Instruction provides a thorough examination of distribution and financing deals, acquisition of creative material using options, and assuring clearances and legal copyrights. Class explores development and marketing strategies and pitches feature-length projects to acquisition producers.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-3600 Producing I: Production Team  or 24-4625
  

  • 24-4627 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.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-3600 Producing I: Production Team 
  

  • 24-4630L 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.

    3 Credits
    Requirements Accept in Sem in LA Prog
  

  • 24-4631L Studio Producing - Los Angeles

    This course teaches the function and culture of the studio system as it is currently structured and practiced. Topics include development, reading for coverage, complex financing, and distribution. Class also explores the various roles of executives in the film and television industries and their relationships with agents, legal entities, and intellectual property. Course admission is by application.

    3 Credits
    Requirements Accept in Sem in LA Prog
  

  • 24-4632L The Line Producer/Los Angeles

    This course examines elements of pre-production, production, and post-production in the film and television industries from the perspective of the role of the line producer. Topics include scheduling, budgeting, and line-producing in the context of large budgets and complex projects. Below-the-line jobs and relationships with crew and guilds are covered.

    3 Credits
    Requirements Accept in Sem in LA Prog
  

  • 24-4633L 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.

    3 Credits
    Requirements Accept in Sem in LA Prog
  

  • 24-4656 Independent Project Producing - Los Angeles

    Course is a component of the Semester in L.A. program. Students develop a project then research and contact studios, production companies, and agents regarding the developed feature-length film project. Course admission is by application.

    0 Credits
    Requirements Application Required and Permission of Coordinatr and Accept in Sem in LA Prog
  

  • 24-4689 Internship: LA

    Course offers internship with established producing, production, or post-production entity in Los Angeles.

    0 Credits
    Repeatable
    Requirements Accept in Sem in LA Prog
  

  • 24-4690 Independent Project-Producing: Preproduction

    Course is the pre-production phase of an independent production that involves final creative and logistical preparation for principle photography. Among other things, this coursework includes location scouting, test shooting, rehearsals, and insurance and permit acquisition.

    0 Credits
    Requirements Application Required
  

  • 24-4691 Independent Project-Producing: Production

    Course combines the development and pre-production phases of an independent project.

    1-6 Credits
    Repeatable
    Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
  

  • 24-4692 Independent Project Producing: Case Study

    Course is an independent project in which the student conducts a substantial research project in industry trends, production company organization, and/or media conglomerates.

    1-6 Credits
    Repeatable
    Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
  

  • 24-4693 Independent Project-Producing: Production

    Course in this phase of the project includes principle photography. The participant may be producer and director, producer and production manager, producer and assistant director, or simply producer. Student may not combine the role of director with production manager or assistant director and may not combine the role of production manager with assistant director.

    1-6 Credits
    Repeatable
    Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
  
  

  • 24-4742 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.

    3 Credits
    Repeatable
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2710 Screenwriting II: The Feature Film  and 24-2700 Script Analysis  or 40-2722 Screenwriting II: The Feature Film  and 24-2700 Script Analysis 
  

  • 24-4810 Producing the Documentary

    This course prepares advanced documentary students to work in the documentary production industry as a hired producer/director/writer. Typical work-for-hire tasks are explored. Students write and develop production packages suitable for known production companies and media outlets. Advanced producing topics are covered including complex budgeting, scheduling, hiring, and delivery and distribution requirements.

    3 Credits
    Repeatable
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2809 Documentary Production I: Basic Field Production 
  
  

  • 24-4861 Directing the Biographical Documentary

    6 Credits
  
  

  • 24-4901 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.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2031 Moving Image Production II 
  

  • 24-4902 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.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-4901 Experimental Production I  or 24-4902
  

  • 24-5063 Teacher Training in Film & Video

    2 Credits
  

  • 24-5301L Directing in the Studio System

    This Los Angeles-based course explores the role of the director within the studio system. The course examines relationships with producers, writers, and studio executives. Students learn the importance of budgets and schedules and their effect on the creative process. Leadership skills and team building are addressed. Students will explore the role of an agent and employment possibilities.

    4 Credits
  

  • 24-5302L 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. Prerequisite: Acceptance into L.A. program.

    4 Credits
  

  • 24-5303L Casting, Blocking and Directing Actors

    This Los Angeles-based course teaches students how to cast for film and television, rehearse actors, block action for the camera, and shoot the scene. Appropriate coverage for editing is explored. This course takes place in a sound stage on a studio lot using professional crews and actors. Prerequisite: Acceptance into L.A. program.

    4 Credits
  

  • 24-5304 Creativity: Vision and Process

    This course is intended to present the students various individual artistic structures and creative processes. These will be presented by working artists from different disciplines around the school, each demonstrating the ways in which they approach ideation, access and creation.

    3 Credits
    Requirements Phase I
  

  • 24-5310 Directing for the Camera

    Course emphasizes development of camera strategies for shooting dramatic footage. Practical decision-making is stressed as an essential tool in dealing with emotional articulation of a scene. Students receive intensive training in hands-on experience of camera placement.

    6 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2301 Directing I 
  

  • 24-5403 Editing the Documentary

    4 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-6423 Editing for Film & Video 
  

  • 24-5406 Advanced Editing Seminar

    Course provides an opportunity for advanced editing students to cut independent projects, advanced directing, and thesis projects in a classroom environment. Course also provides editing students with a reel of their work for use in future endeavors.

    4 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-6423 Editing for Film & Video 
  

  • 24-5408 Editing the Feature

    This course provides the advanced narrative editing experience necessary to edit a feature film. Students will learn professional editing techniques and editing room protocols while logging, capturing, and editing a feature length film. This course builds out of the foundation of knowledge taught in Editing the Narrative Film II. Students receive critiques of their work each week to determine the development of their craft and creativity.

    4 Credits
  

  • 24-5420 Motion Graphics I

    4 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-6423 Editing for Film & Video 
  

  • 24-5421 Motion Graphics II

    Students learn complex film and video compositing under tight deadlines using advanced high-end systems. Course emphasizes storyboarding and design as well as postproduction house protocols.

    4 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-5420 Motion Graphics I 
  

  • 24-5422 Motion Graphics III

    Students will learn complex film and video compositing, focusing on mastering the use of the Flint/Flame. This course is designed to create high-end digital and optical effects through collaboration with advanced animators and cinematographers.

    4 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-5421 Motion Graphics II 
  

  • 24-5425 Advncd Editing: Assistant Editor

    Course familiarizes students with the duties of an editing assistant. Instruction focuses primarily on the handling of 16mm and 35mm film elements and on the use of equipment needed for finishing a project on film. Students learn proper practices and procedures for organizing materials; working with the lab; and logging, synching, and coding film and mag stock in preparation for editing. Several exercises teach fundamentals, and the final project cuts a short feature length film.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-6423 Editing for Film & Video 
  

  • 24-5426 Photoshop Workshop for Editors

    An intensive two-day seminar in Photoshop, this course will assist editing students in video finishing. Photoshop can be used as a tool for graphics production for film and video. Students will learn titling, alpha channels, mattes, etc.

    1 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-6423 Editing for Film & Video 
  

  • 24-5426J Photoshop Workshop for Editors

    1 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-6423 Editing for Film & Video 
  

  • 24-5428 Online Editing

    Course provides an advanced editing experience in three areas: developing skills to manipulate large amounts of film and audio material, acquiring the means to apply those skills, and using Avid Media/Film Composer equipment to complete assigned projects. Students also learn organizational skills necessary to edit projects on the Avid Media/Film Composer and gain advanced knowledge of post-production protocols in digital editing. Students receive critiques of their work after each project to determine the development of their proficiency of craft and creativity. Course culminates in the editing of a film project from off-line to on-line and the generation of a keycode cutlist.

    4 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-6423 Editing for Film & Video 
  

  • 24-5430 The Machine Room+

    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.

    1 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-6423 Editing for Film & Video 
  

  • 24-5430J The Machine Room+

    1 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-6423 Editing for Film & Video 
  

  • 24-5433 Studies in Motion Graphics

    This repeatable course allows students to study and analyze a different style of motion graphics each semester. Throughout the course, students investigate case studies in the selected style and apply it to their own work. Students should already have a working knowledge of Adobe After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator at an intermediate level. Students will study the aesthetic and technical history of digital special effects. Through focusing on case studies, students will breakdown the process of 3D compositing and apply to in-class exercises. Students will also collaborate in compositing 3D and live action elements to a special effects scene.

    4 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-5420 Motion Graphics I 
  

  • 24-5493 Independent Project: Editing Narrative Short

    Course provides the independent editor or independent filmmaker with an opportunity to edit a short narrative film.

    1-6 Credits
  

  • 24-5494 Independent Project: Editing Documentary Short

    Course provides the independent editor or independent filmmaker with an opportunity to edit a short documentary film.

    1-6 Credits
  

  • 24-5495 Independent Project: Editing Experimental Short

    Course provides the independent editor or independent filmmaker with an opportunity to edit a short experimental film.

    0 Credits
  

  • 24-5496 Independent Project: Editing Motion Graphic/Special Effects

    Course provides the independent editor or independent filmmaker with an opportunity to edit a motion graphics or special effects for a short film.

    1-6 Credits
  

  • 24-5497 Independent Project: Editing Music Video

    Course provides the independent editor or independent filmmaker with an opportunity to edit a music video.

    1-6 Credits
  

  • 24-5498 Independent Project: Editing Director’s/Editor’s Reel

    Course provides the independent editor or independent filmmaker with an opportunity to edit a reel of their work.

    1-6 Credits
  

  • 24-5605 Producing II: Legal and Financial Options

    Taking a pragmatic view as independent filmmakers, course examines the basic structure of independent narrative and documentary industries. Topics include financing, research, rights and contracts, budgeting, production, distribution, exhibition, international co-productions, and the cable and public television markets. This course provides a thorough examination of distribution and financing deals, acquisition of creative material using options, and assuring clearances and legal copyrights, as well as development and marketing strategies. Students develop a project from idea to complete business plan.

    3 Credits
    Requirements Phase I
  

  • 24-5606 Producing III: The Creative Producer+

    The role of the creative producer is examined in the context of feature and television films. Class enhances technical and artistic expertise and expands creative and organizational skills needed to produce films within the confines of near-impossible budgets. Course emphasizes selection and development of properties, pitching, casting, script problems and rewriting, staffing, working with the creative team, scheduling, budgeting, locations scouting, production design, production, and postproduction.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-6031 Production III 
    Requirements Phase I
  

  • 24-5607 Producing IV+

    This course focuses on the acquisition, creation and execution of cinematic ideas in the context of small budgets for appropriate media outlets. Students acquire and develop intellectual property and begin pre-production for projects intended for production during the following semester. Students will collaborate with screenwriting students. Course admission is by application.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-6031 Production III 
  

  • 24-5608 Producing V: Production Practicum

    In this workshop, students produce a significant, short production within the semester. Emphasis on script development; crew assembly and pre-production; production management and post-production supervision. Students collaborate with students in other concentrations.

    6 Credits
  

  • 24-5610 The Line Producer Workshop

    The Line Producer is the day-to-day producer on the front line during production. This immersion course meets for 10, 4 3/4 hours/day, usually prior to the beginning of the semester. This course teaches line producers how to supervise film production. The Line Producer’s role is covered, including decision making and crisis management; team building and collaboration with other production personnel. Additionally, the course explores budgeting and accounting principles in relation to ongoing production changes and adaptations.

    6 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-3600 Producing I: Production Team 
  

  • 24-5612 Script Supervision Workshop

    This one-credit seminar 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.

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-5614 The Assistant Director’s Workshop

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-5615 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.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-4614 The Assistant Director’s Workshop  or 24-5614 The Assistant Director’s Workshop 
  

  • 24-5621 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.

    1 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-3600 Producing I: Production Team 
  

  • 24-5622 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.

    1 Credits
  

  • 24-5623 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.

    1 Credits
  

  • 24-5626 Producing III: Film Financing

    No description available.

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-5627 Producing Commercial/Corp Films

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-5630L 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.

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-5631L Studio Producing - Los Angeles

    Students learn the ins and outs of the studio system as it is currently structured and practiced. Topics include scheduling, budgeting, and line-producing in the context of large budgets and complex projects. Additional components include development, reading for coverage, complex financing, and distribution structure. Class also explores the various roles of executives in the film industry.

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-5632L The Line Producer/Los Angeles

    This course examines elements of pre-production, production, and post-production in the film and television industries from the perspective of the role of the line producer. Topics include scheduling, budgeting, and line-producing in the context of large budgets and complex projects. Below-the-line jobs and relationships with crew and guilds are covered.

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-5633L 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.

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-5656 Independent Project Producing - Los Angeles+

    0 Credits
  

  • 24-5689 Internship: LA

    Internship with established producing, production, or postproduction entity in Los Angeles.

    0 Credits
  

  • 24-5690 Independent Project-Producing: Preproduction+

    This is the pre-production phase of an independent production that involves final creative and logistical preparation for principle photography. Among other things, this coursework includes location scouting, test shooting, rehearsals, and insurance and permit acquisition.

    0 Credits
    Requirements Application Required
  

  • 24-5691 Independent Project-Producing: Production+

    This project combines the development and pre-production phases of an independent project.

    1-6 Credits
  

  • 24-5692 Independent Project Producing: Case Study

    1-6 Credits
    Requirements Application Required
  

  • 24-5693 Independent Project-Producing: Production+

    This phase of the project includes principle photography. The participant may be producer and director, producer and production manager, producer and assistant director, or simply producer. Student may not combine the role of director with production manager or assistant director and may not combine the role of production manager with assistant director.

    1-6 Credits
    Requirements Application Required
  

  • 24-5740 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 abilities. Course emphasizes rewriting and developing skills to sell screenplays.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-6710 Screenwriting II:Feature Film 
  

  • 24-5742 The Business of Screenwriting

    Students will learn 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. This 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.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2710 Screenwriting II: The Feature Film 
  

  • 24-5810 Producing the Documentary

    This course prepares advanced documentary students to work in the documentary production industry as a hired producer/director/writer. Typical work-for-hire tasks are explored. Students write and develop production packages suitable for known production companies and media outlets. Advanced producing topics are covered including complex budgeting, scheduling, hiring and delivery an distribution requirements.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-6832 Documentary I 
  

  • 24-5852 The Documentary Practicum

    This course functions as a production company with students developing and producing segments for a single film. This course functions as a production company with students developing and producing segments for a single film. The team decides on division of labor, ownership and general company policies. Additional topics include advanced proposal writing and grant application as well as narration and script writing. Students will produce collateral materials including publicity, study guides and DVD extras. The team is responsible for meeting stringent deliverable guidelines.

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-5861 Directing the Biographical Documentary

    This course introduces MFA Screen Director Documentary students to the Biographical documentary film as a distinct form and will explore its relevance both sociologically and historically. Students will create short biographical films through primary and secondary interviews in a studio setting and in the field, in both controlled and uncontrolled situations. Basic skills of lighting, sound and interviewing techniques will demonstrate a visual strategy that explores a characters environment, social belief’s and Core Values, including legal and ethical considerations. Students will complete a treatment, script, verbal pitch in addition to a marketing strategy for the finished film.

    6 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-6360 Introduction to Cinema Directing 
  
  

  • 24-5901 Experimental Production I

    This 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.

    3 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-6031 Production III 
  

  • 24-5902 Experimental Production II

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-6011 Production I

    With an emphasis on narrative form, the course covers a basic technical and aesthetic foundation in filmmaking. Students learn to develop craft as well as personal voice through doing projects that involve writing treatments and scripts; developing storyboards; producing; lighting; directing action; working with actors and crew; and editing. For the final project, each student works on both their own film as well as those of their classmates.

    6 Credits
  

  • 24-6021 Production II

    This course aims to help students refine their aesthetic sensibilities and sense of personal vision as directors through projects that involve writing, making storyboards; shooting in a variety of visual styles; producing; directing action; working with actors; and editing. First, students collaborate with their classmates to shoot exercises on video in a number of different cinematic styles; for the final project, each student writes and directs their own seven-to-eight-minute film. Students expand their sense of filmmaking by doing collateral work in the two other courses offered in the second semester, Theory and History of Film & Video and Editing for Film and Video. They expand a sense of aesthetic possibilities by the work they do in Theory and History and extend their editing sense through the work they do in the Editing course.

    6 Credits
    Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-6011 Production I  and 24-6312 Directing I (MFA)  and 24-6713 Screenwriting I 
 

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