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2015-2016 Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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  • 24-2401 Editing I

    Course helps students develop the basic non-linear editing skills needed to tell stories effectively through screenings, practical hands-on assignments, using NLE editing software, readings, and lectures. Organizational skills needed to handle NLE offline digital video and audio materials are covered. Editing exercises consist of various editing genres, using scenes from longer works. Students receive ongoing critiques of their work to determine their proficiency of craft and creativity.

    3 Credits
    Requirements 24 Earned Credits
  

  • 24-2401B Editing I Lab

    This Lab is required concurrently with Editing 1. Students develop basic skill in the use of a digital editing platform in completing the Editing I course exercises, as well as investigating current technical developments and digital workflow concepts. Content is presented through demonstrations, tutorials and hands-on practice using visual and audio media. Students receive ongoing critique, quizzes and one-to-one problem solving to determine their proficiency and advancement in the use of the platform.

    1 Credits
    COREQUISITES: 24-2401 Editing I  
    Requirements Completion of 12 hours
  

  • 24-2402 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.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2401 Editing I  
  

  • 24-2402B Editing II Lab

    This Lab 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.

    1 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2401 Editing I  COREQUISITES: 24-2402 Editing II  
  

  • 24-2404 Digital Workflow

    This repeatable course consists of subjects supporting the creative workflow of digital cinema. This course would be of interest to developing Editors, Cinematographers, Post-Production Supervisors, VFX Supervisors or Producers seeking fluency in the specialized language of digital processing of media from production through post.Topics could include: Codecs and Formats; Storage and Media Share; Managing multiple sources; Digital Camera Post-Production Workflows (RED, P2, Canon 5D, etc.). Classes include lectures, demos, site visits and practice. Students choose to register for the topic/semester that best address their interests and needs.

    1 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2401 Editing I 
  

  • 24-2405 Topics in Editing

    This repeatable course consists of rotating subjects of interest to the developing editor or filmmaker who appreciates the importance of post-production. Suggested topics include: Montage history, meaning and application; Editing Action; Editing Unscripted Material; Director/Editor collaboration; the work of influential editors.Topics address relevant post-production subjects that merit in depth exploration. Classes include lectures, films clips, written papers and/or exercises. Students choose to register for the topic/semester that best address their interests and needs.

    1 Credits Repeatable
  

  • 24-2406 Advanced Postproduction Tools

    Students will advance and deepen their skills in complete post-production workflows through a series of topics which can include a range of post-production activities. Through lectures, demonstrations and exercises, students will practice and apply their skills as they master complete post-production workflows.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2401 Editing I  
  

  • 24-2500 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.

    3 Credits
    WI
  

  • 24-2501 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.

    3 Credits Repeatable
  

  • 24-2501A Studies in Authorship

    This one credit course studies recent directors, stars, producers, and other content creators who usually are not discussed in fifteen week courses. Subjects change each semester. Students will examine recurring themes, stylistic innovations, and differentiating interpretations of the screenings. Course may be repeated as featured authors change.

    1 Credits Repeatable
  

  • 24-2506 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.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements 24 Earned Credits
  

  • 24-2506A Studies in Cinema History and Culture

    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.

    1 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements 24 Earned Credits
  

  • 24-2507 Cinema & 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.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements 24 Earned Credits
  

  • 24-2507A Studies in Cinema & Global Media Culture

    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 numbe of other in-class and online research activities to help engage them actively with the topics.

    1 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements 24 Earned Credits
  

  • 24-2510 Studies in Film Genre:

    Course explores the conventions of film genres and their influence on style and content of motion pictures. Topics covered in the past have included The Thriller, Cult Classics, The Western, and Film Noir. Course may be repeated as topics change.

    3 Credits Repeatable
  

  • 24-2520 Studies in National Cinema:

    Course investigates how social, economic, and political institutions of a particular country affect film style and content. In turn, course considers how movies provide metaphorical snapshots of their culture at a specific moment. Examining both U.S. and other cultures, movies and videos allow for the viewing of art as a construction of a culture, not simply a personal or natural phenomenon. Course is important for all film and video students in the media treatment of a culture. Past topics have included Iranian cinema, cinemas of Australia and New Zealand, Pan African cinema, and Czech New Wave cinema. This course may be repeated as topics change.

    3 Credits Repeatable
  

  • 24-2540 Studies in Film History:

    Course investigates how social, economic, and political institutions affect film and video style and content during a specific era. In turn, it looks at how movies provide metaphorical snapshots of their culture at these moments. Topics covered in the past have included films of the ‘50s, films of the ‘60s, films of the ‘70s, movies and war propaganda, and black roles in film and society. Course may be repeated as topics change.

    3 Credits Repeatable
  

  • 24-2540J Studies in Film History

    Course investigates how social, economic, and political institutions affect film and video style and content during a specific era. In turn, it looks at how movies provide metaphorical snapshots of their culture at these moments. Topics covered in the past have included films of the ‘50s, films of the ‘60s, films of the ‘70s, movies and war propaganda, and black roles in film and society. Course may be repeated as topics change.

    2 Credits Repeatable
  

  • 24-2550 World Cinema I

    This course examines the world cinema up until World War II. Emphasis is placed on major directors, national cinemas, and movements that contributed to the development of narrative cinema. Screenings will be discussed for their aesthetic, historical, technological and ideological significance. 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 material.

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-2551 World Cinema II

    This course examines the world cinema after World War II. Emphasis is placed on major directors, national cinemas, and movements that contributed to the development of narrative cinema. Screenings will be discussed for their aesthetic, historical, technological and ideological significance. 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 material.

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-2561 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.

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-2580 Sexual Perspectives in Film

    Course includes historical, psychological, and sociological examinations of the role of gender, sexual behavior and relationships, shifting concerns, and changing morals as presented in cinema. Topics for examination might include gay and lesbian filmmaking, the image of women in film, male myths, and feminist filmmaking. This course may be repeated as the subject changes.

    3 Credits Repeatable
  

  • 24-2600J Script Supervision and Film Continuity Workshop

    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.

    2 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2031 Moving Image Production II  
  

  • 24-2680 Directed Study: Producing

    Course consists of learning activities involving student independence within the context of regular guidance and direction from a faculty advisor. Directed Studies are appropriate for students who wish to explore a subject beyond what is possible in regular courses or for students who wish to engage in a subject or activity not otherwise offered that semester by the College. Directed Studies involve close collaboration with a faculty advisor who will assist in development and design of the project, oversee its progress, evaluate the final results, and submit a grade.

    1-6 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
  

  • 24-2701J The Art of Pitching

    Course will look at various media to see how others pitch their stories or products, and practice pitching before the class and before professionals. The focus will be upon presenting the student’s personal work to a potential buyer, executive producer, or similar client. Students will work on crafting their loglines and pitches in writing before conversion to verbal presentation.

    1 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-1710 Screenwriting I: Writing the Short Film  
  

  • 24-2703 Analyzing Dramatic Structure in LA

    Course analyzes a variety of one-hour episodic dramas currently in production. A variety of speakers from the industry will illuminate the shows, describing how they were developed, written, and produced.

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-2705 Comparative Screenwriting:

    Repeatable course provides students with an extensive examination of the screenwriter’s role, career and development, and relationship to the production process. These objectives are achieved by comparing and contrasting two writers who operate in different ways. For example, a screenwriter who directs his or her own materials is compared to a writer whose work is directed by someone else; a Hollywood screenwriter is contrasted with an independent writer; a classical narrative writer is compared to a nontraditional writer. Students study the role of the screenwriter and the impact of the writer on the production process.

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

  • 24-2710 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.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-1710 Screenwriting I: Writing the Short Film 
  

  • 24-2715 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.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-1710 Screenwriting I: Writing the Short Film 
  

  • 24-2716L Adaptation II in LA

    This course requires that students develop a previously completed work of prose (non-scripted material) into an expanded step outline and then a visual treatment. The outlining process will involve breaking down the prose, streamlining it into visual and essential dialogue, and registering the step outline with the W.G.A. Based on feedback from a story editor, the students will revise their outline and write a visual treatment to be pitched to development executives at the end of the program. Before attending the program, students must demonstrate they have the rights to the material (as the original or with author’s documented permission).

    3 Credits
    Requirements Accept in Sem in LA Prog
  

  • 24-2718L Acquiring Intellectual Property for Adaptation in LA

    This course is designed to help students better understand the process of optioning copyrighted material by other writers. During their first week, students will research and choose three works of prose by other writers for optioning. Taking their first choice, students will attempt to locate the rights through publishers, lawyers, agents, etc. There will be weekly individual meetings to check on student progress. If a student’s first choice falls through due to already being optioned, or too many legalities, the student will try to option his/her second choice (and so on).

    3 Credits
    Requirements Accept in Sem in LA Prog
  

  • 24-2720 Genres in Screenwriting:

    Course will study several screenplays, each of which effectively captures a sense of the genre chosen for the current semester. Students examine the screenplays in terms of the writers and the scripts’ ability to deal with contemporary or universal issues and themes in the context of the designated genre. Students will develop and write the first draft of a screenplay based upon techniques and elements of the specific genre but reflective of their own personal themes as well. This is a repeatable course wherein the genre rotates from semester to semester. Previous genres have included film noir, horror, science fiction, comedy, action adventure, and psychological thriller.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2710 Screenwriting II: The Feature Film  or 40-2722 Screenwriting II: The Feature Film 
  

  • 24-2723 Writers’ Roundtable in LA

    Course builds and emphasizes the students’ skills for the development of an appropriate storyline for the one-hour format. Students will explore a variety of television genres and ultimately write a finished television script utilizing the current computer software programs for professional screenwriting.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 40-2201 The Television Producer 
    Requirements Accept in Sem in LA Prog
  

  • 24-2730 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.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    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 
  

  • 24-2731L Screenwritng Workshop: Reading for Coverage in LA

    This course requires that students read and analyze a variety of scripts preparing coverage as practice for entry-level positions in screenwriting or preparing for jobs in Hollywood development offices.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Accept in Sem in LA Prog
  

  • 24-2732L Screenwriting Workshop: Coverage of Adapted Screenplays in LA

    This course requires that students read and analyze a variety of source stories, scripts based on those source stories, and films made from those scripts as a way to learn adapting techniques. Students will learn and prepare prose coverage and script coverage as a method of analyzing adaptation approaches and as practice for entry level positions in screenwriting or preparing for jobs in Hollywood development offices.

    3 Credits
    Requirements Accept in Sem in LA Prog
  

  • 24-2733 Screenwriting LA

    Course builds and emphasizes the students’ skills for the development of an appropriate storyline for the one-hour format. Students explore a variety of television genres and ultimately write a finished television script utilizing the current computer software programs for professional screenwriting.

    3 Credits
    Requirements Accept in Sem in LA Prog
  

  • 24-2735 Screenwriting Workshops:

    Course is designed to help students revise and rewrite work previously written using a variety of approaches and techniques. Students learn to reexamine, reevaluate, and think critically about their own work and their classmates.

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

  • 24-2791 Independent Project: Screenwriting LA

    Course teaches students methods of pitching and marketing their film ideas in individual consultation with prearranged faculty advisor and guest speakers, primarily using the student script from Screenwriting III.

    0 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 24-3711
    Requirements Accept in Sem in LA Prog
  

  • 24-2796 Independent Project: Intensive Study

    Course allows students to undertake independent projects in intensive study, under the advisement of a faculty member, to receive credit for attending screenwriting-related workshops or seminars conducted by professional organizations or schools other than Columbia College Chicago.

    0 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 40-2722 Screenwriting II: The Feature Film  or 24-2710 Screenwriting II: The Feature Film 
    Requirements Application Required and Permission of Coordinatr
  

  • 24-2797 Independent Project: Analysis

    Course allows students to have individual consultation with a prearranged faculty advisor to analyze or critique screenplays as a method of better understanding the craft and improving their screenwriting. Students must complete a rigorous application process.

    0 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2700 Script Analysis 
    Requirements Application Required and Permission of Coordinatr
  

  • 24-2798 Independent Project: Development /Draft

    Course allows individual consultation with a prearranged faculty advisor to develop a script idea into treatment format or a first draft. Students must complete a rigorous application process.

    1-6 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 40-2722 Screenwriting II: The Feature Film  or 24-2710 Screenwriting II: The Feature Film 
    Requirements Application Required and Permission of Coordinatr
  

  • 24-2799 Independent Project: Work-in-Progress

    Course consists of independent projects that allow students individual consultation with a prearranged faculty advisor, enabling the student to rewrite a script begun in a previous class or independent project or to develop a script from a prewritten treatment. Students must complete a rigorous application process.

    1-6 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 40-2722 Screenwriting II: The Feature Film  or 24-2710 Screenwriting II: The Feature Film  
    Requirements Application Required and Permission of Coordinatr
  
  

  • 24-2807 Documentary Storytelling

    Course begins with an overview of the relationships between story and discourse in narrative storytelling. This includes narrative voice and perspective, the temporal and spatial arrangements of events and mutual influences between plot and character. Once fundamental principles are established, the focus shifts specifically to documentary film. By studying excerpts from existing works, students develop an understanding of narrative approaches to documentary and apply that knowledge to a personal project they wish to develop.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-1000 Cinema Notebooks  and 24-1001 Cinema Image & Process  or 24-2031 Moving Image Production II  
    Requirements 24 Enrolled Credit Hour
  

  • 24-2809 Documentary Production I: Basic Field Production

    Intensive workshop course gives students a solid grounding in basic documentary field production including a variety of hand-held camera moves, essential three point lighting techniques with minimal equipment. Students will develop basic wired and wireless sound recording techniques. Additional topics include set protocols and crew coordination strategies, checklists and preparation, logging, and labeling.

    1 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-1000 Cinema Notebooks  and 24-1001 Cinema Image & Process  or 24-2031 Moving Image Production II  
  

  • 24-2811 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.

    1 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2815 Documentary Production II: Intermediate Field Production  or 40-2100 Television Arts: Writing  and 40-2401 Production and Editing II 
  
  

  • 24-2815 Documentary Production II: Intermediate Field Production

    Intensive workshop course gives students additional grounding in intermediate documentary field production including a variety of visual strategies, sophisticated three point lighting techniques with advanced equipment. Students will work with advanced sound recording techniques. Additional topics include one person crew strategies and production problem solving.

    1 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2031 Moving Image Production II  
  

  • 24-2820 Documentary Cinematography

    This course focuses on the language, practice and art of visual storytelling in the documentary form. Students will examine the cinematographer’s role in the ideation, shooting and editing of non-fiction film content. Through a series of screenings, lectures, experiential exercises and class discussions, students will better understand the history and practice of cinematography as it pertainsto story, character and structure - all through the prism of documentary.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-1000 Cinema Notebooks  and 24-1001 Cinema Image & Process  or 24-2031 Moving Image Production II  
  
  

  • 24-3001 Transmedia Analysis: Games, Film and Television

    Modern storytelling is not constrained to one medium. This course provides students with an opportunity to learn about the ways in which core narrative properties can be adapted to various media, specifically narrative games, television, and film. Through selected case studies, students will analyze the ways in which core narrative properties are defined, adapted, and transformed across media. This class is a prerequisite for the Semester in LA/Transmedia Production: Games, Film, and Television course.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 36-2800 Story Development for Interactive Media  or 24-2710 Screenwriting II: The Feature Film  or 40-3202 Writing for Television 
  

  • 24-3004 Production Design Practicum

    Workshop course asks students to serve as the production designer on a significant short film using a screenplay developed in a previous semester.  They will collaborate with advanced student directors, producers, and cinematographers and conceive the overall visual concept for the film.  Emphasis will be on the artistic relationship with the director and cinematographer, as well as on the organizational and financial relationship with the producer.  Under the leadership of the producers, the production design students will assemble an art department with key personnel, develop and monitor the art department budget, and supervise the execution of their design.

    6 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-1015 Production Design I 
    Requirements Permission of Coordinatr
  

  • 24-3005C Transmedia Development: Game

    This interdepartmental Semester in L.A. course brings students from various backgrounds together to develop their IP Bibles into material for the game industry. Each student will develop one piece of material, such as a short game or game sequence that incorporates at least one extensive dialogue tree and substantive narrative content.

    3 Credits Repeatable
  

  • 24-3006 Cinema Mechanical and Special Effects

    This course teaches students how safe mechanical and special effects for cinema are designed and executed. Students will recognize and develop design effects taking advantage of camera, frame, object, and space manipulation. Students will combine techniques and technology such as forced perspective, mechanical movements, electric motors, actuators and electronics to create safe and effective illusions for the screen.Students will study professional effects and will collaborate on a final project to be captured on film or video.

    4 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2013 Cinema Set Design & Construction  or 24-2011 Cinema Props 
  
  

  • 24-3089 Internship: Cinema Art+Science

    Course provides advanced students with practical work experience that places them in training positions related to their academic studies. The College awards academic credit in internships based on a ratio of credit hours to hours worked. Even though the internship takes place outside the classroom, there are institutional and department requirements for students seeking and taking internships.

    1-12 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Department Permission
  

  • 24-3098 Indep Proj: Cinema Art + Science Production

    Course involves the instructor acting as the supervisor for students who meet the criteria necessary for enrollment. Students must submit a complete production packet prior to enrolling in this class.

    1-6 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
  

  • 24-3101 Location Sound Recording II

    This course applies principles of synchronous motion picture recording to advanced production. Students work on advanced projects on location with faculty supervision. Class sessions provide for discussions, exchange of experiences, and problem solving.

    4 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 43-2215 Audio Production II  or 24-2103 Location Sound Recording I  
  

  • 24-3102 Advanced Production Sound Applications

    Course examines and practices advanced sound recording strategies and techniques to prepare advanced location sound students for a career as a professional sound mixer. Students will provide complete production audio services to advanced projects including pre-production assessment of equipment budgets, attend all production meetings, location scouting, recording of table reads, acquisition of quality audio tracks keep production journals, manage all audio media, formats and documentation. They will also perform technical competency tests with hard disk recording and wireless microphone technologies. Emphasis is on providing the highest level of quality audio services to advanced department productions.

    4 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-3101 Location Sound Recording II  
  

  • 24-3122 Post-Production Audio III

    Advanced level Sound for Cinema course designed to further student’s insight and experience into the art of preparing, mixing and re-recording sound tracks for cinema. Students work in collaborative environment to complete class projects that mirror professional industry cinema sound practice. Skills training and learning outcomes offered in this class represent the capstone in the Sound for Cinema pathway.

    4 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2102 Post-Production Audio II 
  

  • 24-3126 Sound Mixing for Cinema

    Sound Mixing For Cinema explores the advanced processes used to create effective state-of-the-art cinema sound mixes. In this intensive, hands-on studio course, students will study the latest trends in soundtrack aesthetics & rerecording technology and employ these techniques in mixing soundtracks for a variety of cinema genres & media.

    4 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2102 Post-Production Audio II 
  

  • 24-3198 Independent Project: Location Audio

    Course requires that students, under the guidance of an advisor, be responsible for on-location production sound recording and playback on the student or professional films.

    1-6 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2103 Location Sound Recording I 
    Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
  

  • 24-3199 Independent Project: Audio Post Production

    Course requires that students design and render the necessary elements for completion of a soundtrack on student or professional films.

    1-6 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2101 Post-Production Audio I  or 24-2102 Post-Production Audio II 
    Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
  
  

  • 24-3200A Lighting II Lab

    Lighting II Lab is a co-requisite class with Lighting II. The Lab is designed to work in conjunction with the Directing II class. Each Lighting student will be paired with one Directing student, and collaborate on 3 class exercises, involving preproduction and on-set Production. These exercises expand upon the skills students are developing in Lighting II, applying them to more complex and complete storytelling assignments.

    2 Credits Repeatable
    CONCURRENT: 24-3200 Lighting II  
  

  • 24-3201 Cinematography: Camera Seminar II

    Course focuses primarily on operating the latest models of 35mm and Professional Digital Cinema cameras. Instruction also covers support equipment, including the dolly, jib arm, gear head, video assist, and Steadicam. Students learn how to operate equipment, by shooting in class exercises and receive exposure to Telecine transfer in a facility that includes digital da Vinci.

    4 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2202 Cinematography:Camera Seminar  COREQUISITES: 24-3200 Lighting II  and 24-3202 Special Studies: Cinematography I 
  
  

  • 24-3203 Special Studies: Cinematography II

    Course is designed to acquaint students with the role of the cinematographer in the motion picture, emphasizing creation of the visual concept of the movie, problems of style, and design and arrangement in connection with the choice of creative techniques. Course also deals with the color structure of the motion picture.

    4 Credits
    Requirements Permission of Coordinatr
  

  • 24-3204 Digital Cinematography

    Course explores technical and aesthetic demands of interformat production, digital cinematography, and digital postproduction and special effects. Students light the set and shoot the scene in different formats, using 16mm, 35mm, Digital Video, SP BETA, and HDTV. After composing the scene with special effect plates, students transfer the final product on 35mm print and evaluate how different recording media handle the video-to-film transfer process.

    4 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-3202 Special Studies: Cinematography I 
    Requirements Permission of Coordinatr
  

  • 24-3205 Lighting III

    Course focuses on advanced lighting for motion pictures based upon brightness analysis of the scene. Students learn how to light a scene using a spotmeter only.

    4 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-3200 Lighting II  and 24-3201 Cinematography: Camera Seminar II 
    Requirements Permission of Instructor
  
  
  

  • 24-3210 Cinematography Practicum

    Workshop course requires that Cinematography students work as directors of photography on a significant short film or digital video in collaboration with students from other concentrations. Emphasis is on visual and oral realization from a screenplay to affect an audience through dramatic screen presentation. Student cinematographers work in collaboration with directors and producers. The ability to communicate with one another and maximize the value of their creative contributions will be assessed. Cinematographers will collaborate on storyboards, scout locations, develop the visual concept of the story, create floor plans for scenes, participate in pre-production and production meetings, execute shooting within set production parameters, and supervise timing of the final project.

    4 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-3203 Special Studies: Cinematography II 
    Requirements Permission of Coordinatr
  

  • 24-3211 Digital Imaging Technician and On-Set Postproduction

    This an intermediate-to-advanced, highly technical course with a portion of the learning taking place in the classroom but also on-set practice for advanced productions. Students will learn the responsibilities of a Digital Imaging Technician (DIT) and will also gain experience in on-set production. 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.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2402 Editing II  or 24-2208 Cinema Color I  or 24-3201 Cinematography: Camera Seminar II  or 24-4425 The Assistant Editor  
  

  • 24-3211J Camera Movement: Practical Application of the Moving Camera

    Highly intense, highly technical course is intended for the advanced Cinematography student. The class day will be broken into two individual sessions. The mornings will be devoted to studying past and present filmmakers and their use of the moving camera. It is also possible that we will bring into class, some of the equipment that is used in the motion picture industry (steadicam, cranes, etc.). The afternoons will be spent shooting class exercises and group projects.

    2 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-3200 Lighting II  and 24-3202 Special Studies: Cinematography I  and 24-3201 Cinematography: Camera Seminar II 
    Requirements Permission of Coordinatr
  

  • 24-3297 Independent Project: Cinematography Visual Elements

    Independent project course provides students the opportunity to receive credit for creating visual effects that will be used in a larger, more complex project or for inclusion in their reel, to be used for employment in the industry.

    1-6 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 24-3202 Special Studies: Cinematography I 
    Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
  

  • 24-3298 Independent Project: Cinematography

    Independent project course provides Cinematography students an opportunity to shoot a film outside the classroom and receive credit for the project.

    1-6 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-3202 Special Studies: Cinematography I 
    Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
  

  • 24-3299 Independent Project: Cinematography Reel

    Independent project course will provide cinematography students the opportunity to receive credit for the creation of their reel, to be used for employment in the film industry.

    1-6 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 24-3202 Special Studies: Cinematography I 
    Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
  

  • 24-3302 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.

    6 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2301 Cinema Directing I 
  

  • 24-3303 Cinema Directing III

    Course covers directing original material, from script breakdown and pre-visualization through location production and picture cut, culminating in a short narrative cinematic story. Using HD video format, instruction elaborates on collaborative skills needed to work with a cinematographer, production designer, editor, and other department heads. Students apply for admittance by submitting a very short, dramatically effective screenplay that is ready for pre-production.

    6 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-3302 Cinema Directing II 
    Requirements Permission of Instructor
  

  • 24-3304 Directing Practicum

    Workshop course requires that students direct a significant short film or video in collaboration with students from other concentrations. Emphasis is on visual and aural realization from a screenplay to affect an audience through dramatic screen presentation. Student directors take creative leadership of their project in collaboration with the producer. The ability to incorporate and maximize the value of contributions made by the cinematographers, editors, and other specialists will be assessed. Directors will create storyboards and shotlists, cast performers, participate in pre-production and production meetings, execute shooting within set production parameters, and supervise editing to a rough cut. They will be expected to continue with the project until delivery of a complete master ready for exhibition on either film or a broadcast video format.

    6 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Permission of Coordinatr
  

  • 24-3305 Scene Study with Camera: A Directing Workshop

    Advanced directing course requires that each student direct, stage, and shoot two scenes. Each live scene is presented in class, critiqued, discussed, and reworked. The scenes are then shot on location and edited for further class critique.

    6 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 24-3302 Cinema Directing II 
    Requirements Permission of Coordinatr
  

  • 24-3306 Directing and Acting Across the Media

    Junior-level directing and acting students from Cinema Art + Science, TV, and Theatre will study together in a four-week summer-session seminar/lab class that investigates the similarities/differences between each area of production. This course is cross-listed with 31-3778 and 40-3320.
    Students will learn and practice techniques of acting, staging, text analysis, story boarding, editing and collaboration, and explore the difference between time and space as it relates to Cinema, TV, and Theatre.
    In an ongoing classroom dialogue the students, instructor and guest instructors will discuss all areas of acting and directing across media. They will also watch plays, movies and TV productions and analyze them critically and competitively. Working directors will visit the class, either in person or by digital media, to lend their experience.

    4 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 31-3701 Directing III  or 31-2205 Acting II: Char & Ens  or 24-2301 Cinema Directing I  or 40-3314 Directing and Production: Narrative  
  

  • 24-3360 Advncd Prod&Directing Practicum

    In this workshop, students produce or direct a significant short film or video in collaboration with students from other concentrations. Emphasis is on visual and aural realization from a screenplay to affect an audience through dramatic screen presentation. Student directors and producers take creative leadership of their project in collaboration with the producer. The ability to incorporate and maximize the value of contributions made by cinematographers, production designers, editors, and other specialists will be assessed. Directors and producers will team to supervise the creation of storyboards, cast performers, participate in pre-production and production meetings, execute shooting within defined production parameters, and supervise editing to a rough cut.

    6 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 24-4607 Producing IV: Project Development  or 24-3302 Cinema Directing II  
    Requirements Permission of Instructor
  

  • 24-3400 Editing Practicum

    Workshop course partners students with other practicum students including directors, producers, cinematographers, production designers, and others, to produce a significant short film or video. Editing students continue to develop their skills in the editing room to tell a complete narrative story and to deliver postproduction materials suitable for complex sound design and mixing as well as cut lists for online editing and color correction. They will be expected to continue with the project until delivery of a complete master ready for exhibition on either film or a broadcast video format

    6 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2402 Editing II  and 24-4408 Editing the Feature  and 24-4406 Advanced Editing Seminar  and 24-4424 On-Line Workshop for Editors  COREQUISITES: 24-4427 Post Production Supervisor 
  

  • 24-3400A Editing Practicum I

    Workshop class is the first of a two-semester course in which post-production students edit an Advanced Practicum film. Students will partner with other Practicum students including directors, producers, cinematographers, and others, to produce a significant short film or video. Editing students continue to develop their skills in the editing room by participating in the production phase through reviewing coverage, preparing dailies, and completing a work-in-process edit to guide effective completion of the narrative story. Students are expected to enroll in the second semester to complete a Master ready for exhibition

    4 Credits
    Requirements Permission of Coordinatr
  

  • 24-3400B Editing Practicum II

    This course allows students to continue working on the project they began in the 24-3400A Editing Practicum I class. In Part II, students concentrate on completing a fully realized and locked edit. Students collaborate with the director and the entire creative team, guiding them through the Post process, prepping the project for sound design, visual fx and on-lining, until delivery of a completed Master is achieved.

    2 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-3400A Editing Practicum I  
    Requirements Permission of Coordinatr
  

  • 24-3400L Editing+Post Prod in Los Angeles

    This course offers students the opportunity to explore career paths in Post Production in Hollywood. Students meet Post professionals and receive tours of post facilities in a variety of forms, acquainting them with the steps for transitioning from an academic life to a professional one. Professional employment opportunities (internships and full-time positions) will be emphasized. Students submit a paper detailing their overall experience and a self-assessment based on feedback given throughout the course.

    2 Credits
    Requirements Department Permission
  

  • 24-3410 Career Planning: Post-Production

    This workshop is opened to all Cinema Art + Science students in postproduction. Students will create a career plan package including: written plan, resume, bio, cover letters, web presence and samples of original work. Site visits are included. Students are urged to take this repeatable course during Junior and/or Senior year

    1 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 24-4406 Advanced Editing Seminar  or 24-3400 Editing Practicum 
  

  • 24-3500 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.

    3 Credits
    Requirements 60 Credits Completed
  

  • 24-3501 Topics in Cinema: Narrative

    Topics in Cinema Narrative Structure: Each semester, this course will concentrate on a different style or structure of cinematic narrative. For example, a course can be constructed to study one of the following topics:1) Traditional Linear Narrative (classic Hollywood model)2) Non-linear Narrative (i.e., Memento, Hiroshima Mon Amour, etc.)3) Fractured Narrative (i.e., Schizopolis, Jubilee, Inland Empire, etc.)4) Character-based POV (i.e., Goodfellas, Blow-Up, Rashomon, etc.)5) Mixed Mode Narrative (Battle of Algiers, This is Spinal Tap, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, etc.)6) Long form Narrative (Apu, Fanny, The Godfather, Lord of the rings, The Matrix, etc.)

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2031 Moving Image Production II  
  

  • 24-3502 Topics in Cinema: Visual Strategy

    Topics in Cinema Visual Strategies: Each semester, this course will concentrate on a different visual strategy. For example, a course can be constructed to study one of the following topics:1) Examine the consistent visual style and grammar of an individual filmmaker throughout their career (i.e., Kubrick, Ophuls, Campion, etc.);2) Examine the visual strategies and devices of a specific movement in film (i.e., noir, expressionism, studio, etc.);3) Examine the visual strategy of a single film from multiple theoretical and interpretive perspectives (Citizen Kane, La Ronde, Don’t Look Now, etc.), or;4) Examine a specific visual device and the way it is applied by different filmmakers for different effects (i.e., long takes, color palettes, widescreen, etc.)

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2031 Moving Image Production II  
  

  • 24-3503 Seminar in Cinema&Media Studies

    In this seminar, students will engage in extensive research into areas of cinema history, media, or theory and criticism. Students will apply their research into the composition of a graduate-level essay. Topics may change at the discretion of the instructor.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2031 Moving Image Production II  
    Requirements 60 Credits Completed
  

  • 24-3504 Advanced Seminar in Cinema Studies II

    This course is intended for seniors in the Cinema Studies concentration. While the specific content can change, students will engage in extensive research into topics of film history and culture. Moreover, they will apply their research into the composition of a thesis-level essay.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-3503 Seminar in Cinema&Media Studies 
  

  • 24-3567 Visual Analysis

    Course uses detailed, specific analysis to break down great films into their component parts in order to discover their visual strategy. Films paired for examination in prior years have included Citizen Kane with Bonnie and Clyde and Klute with The Magnificent Ambersons. Course may be repeated as featured films change.

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

  • 24-3600 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.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-1000 Cinema Notebooks  and 24-1001 Cinema Image & Process  or 24-2031 Moving Image Production II  
  

  • 24-3601 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.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    COREQUISITES: 24-3600 Producing I: Production Team  or 24-1300 Acting and Directing Workshop 
  

  • 24-3601A The Art and Business of Casting: Casting Director Workshop for Cinema

    Course examines the casting process from packaging a film to production. Creative casting will be explored as a necessary preparatory process undertaken by Casting Directors, Directors and Producers. Script roles must be embellished and further defined through this Director-Producer-CD collaboration, which yields a set of aesthetic parameters for auditioning actors and their associated performances. The workshop will give the successful student an understanding of how to recruit actors through promotion, communication with agents and managers, and the rigor of in-person auditions. A comprehensive look at auditioning will include creation of sides, assessment of script readings and monologues and callbacks. Students will also focus on hiring both non-SAG and SAG actors and how to negotiate actor work-for-hire agreements.

    2 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-1300 Acting and Directing Workshop  or 24-2031 Moving Image Production II  
  

  • 24-3601J The Art and Business of Casting: Casting Director Workshop for Cinema

    Course examines the casting process from packaging a film to production. Creative casting will be explored as a necessary preparatory process undertaken by Casting Directors, Directors and Producers. Script roles must be embellished and further defined through this Director-Producer-CD collaboration, which yields a set of aesthetic parameters for auditioning actors and their associated performances. The workshop will give the successful student an understanding of how to recruit actors through promotion, communication with agents and managers, and the rigor of in-person auditions. A comprehensive look at auditioning will include creation of sides, assessment of script readings and monologues and callbacks. Students will also focus on hiring both non-SAG and SAG actors and how to negotiate actor work-for-hire agreements.

    2 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-1300 Acting and Directing Workshop  or 24-2031 Moving Image Production II  
 

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