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2016-2017 Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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  • 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  
  
  

  • 24-3080 Directed Study

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

    1-6 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Application Required
  

  • 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 
  

  • 24-3201A Camera Seminar II Lab

    Camera Seminar II lab is designed to be taken concurrently with Camera Seminar II. In this lab, students will work in groups, and each student will act as operator, and focus puller for in class projects. These exercises expand upon the skills students are developing in Camera Seminar II, applying them to more complex and complete storytelling assignments.

    2 Credits
    CONCURRENT: 24-3201 Cinematography: Camera Seminar II  
  

  • 24-3202 Special Studies: Cinematography I

    Through individual and group projects, course focus on the interpretation of artistic goals and work through technological problems of cinematography. Students develop different creative approaches to the visual concept of the script. Technical issues including film stocks, processing, densitometry, special effects, and lighting are discussed and analyzed.

    4 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2202 Cinematography:Camera Seminar  and 24-3206 Photo Theory/Lab Practice  
  

  • 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
  

  • 24-3206 Photo Theory/Lab Practice

    This course offers in-depth study of technicalities of photographic films and practical information on the role of the film laboratory. Filmmakers must understand their film stocks and the film laboratory handling them in order to use stock most effectively. Topics include latent image theory, tone reproduction, sensitometry/densitometry, mechanical properties of films, and image quality.

    4 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-1200 Lighting I  and 24-2201 Image Design for Cinema  
  

  • 24-3208 Cinema Color 2

    Course expands upon concepts taught in Cinema Color 1, to deepen students’ competence in the aesthetics and technical aspects of digital image processing and color correction with a focus on the film transfer process. Content addresses advanced theory and application of color correction, image control, and manipulation techniques. Principles of color theory and the tools available to filmmakers are explored through lecture, interactive computer exercises, and hands-on experience with telecine, non-linear editing systems, and third-party applications.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2402 Editing II  or 24-3202 Special Studies: Cinematography I  or 24-2208 Cinema Color I  
  

  • 24-3209 CVFX: Compositing II

    This course teaches students the various analogue and digital techniques of compositing film elements of diverse origin, from film, electronic imaging systems, and computer-generated images, through lecture, demonstration, and hands-on practice.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2209 CVFX: Compositing I  or 40-3422 Motion Graphics II  or 24-2421 Motion Graphics II  
    Requirements Or Instructor Permission
  

  • 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 Character & Ensemble  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  
    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
  

  • 24-3404 Editing the Short Form

    Course emphasizes editing and postproduction producing under tight deadlines. Students edit commercials, trailers, and PSA projects every two weeks. Students act as postproduction supervisors, which requires them to contract with students working in other digital classes including Motion Graphics and Postproduction Sound.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2402 Editing II  
  

  • 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 
  

  • 24-3429 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
    PREREQUISITES: 24-1401 Editing I  
  

  • 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  
  

  • 24-3601 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  
  

  • 24-3602J Location Scouting and Management Workshop

    Course focuses on the role of the location manager who is responsible for the finding and securing locations to be used and coordinating the logistics involved for the production to successfully complete its necessary work. Further, the course focuses on the location manager as the face of the production to the community and responsible for addressing the issues that may arise due to the production’s impact on the community. The location manager typically is also the primary Location Scout for a film. They usually oversee several other scouts and assistant managers during the course of a show. They will commonly work closely with the director and the production designer during preproduction to find and secure the creative vision expressed by them. They are also responsible for public relations at the locations used and the safety of the crew during filming.

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

  • 24-3603J Advanced Line Producing Workshop

    Course is an advanced exploration of the line producer’s role and the associated production team, including production budgets, schedules, Call Sheets, Daily Production Reports, Cost Reports, and associated production accounting. Detailed examination of the role of line producer as manager of a film’s cast, crew, and the pivotal role of a line producer and financier.

    2 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-3600 Producing I: Production Team 
  

  • 24-3605 The Business of Animated Content

    Course examines central business and legal matters associated with developing, producing, and releasing animated films. Course emphasizes the need to properly prepare the bundle of rights and legal documentation for an animated film as it enters the marketplace. Additionally, students will be introduced to basic business principles for short and feature animated films including new technologies and the evolving convergent marketplace.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-3600 Producing I: Production Team  or 26-3040 Animation Storyboard & Concept Development 
  

  • 24-3606 Topics in Producing:

    This repeatable course consists of rotating topics of interest to the developing filmmaker with an interest in producing. It will provide an in-depth exploration of aesthetics, history, and cinematic trends from a producer’s perspective. Topics will include the producer/director power dynamic; the rise of the female producer; international co-productions; and the art & business of film analysis. Students may register for the topic/semester that best addresses their interests and needs.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-3600 Producing I: Production Team  or 40-2201 The Television Producer 
  

  • 24-3607 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
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2031 Moving Image Production II  or 24-1000 Cinema Notebooks  and 24-1001 Cinema Image & Process  COREQUISITES: 24-2600 Producing I: Production Team  
  

  • 24-3608 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
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2600 Producing I: Production Team  COREQUISITES: 24-3607 Producing II: Legal and Financial Options  or 24-3609 Producing III: The Creative Producer  
  

  • 24-3609 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
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2600 Producing I: Production Team  
  

  • 24-3610 Prod Management: Scheduling & Budget Workshop (ONLINE)

    Brief, intensive, online workshop course examines the role of script breakdown, scheduling, and budgeting in film production. Course emphasizes script analysis for identifying key elements such as cast, locations, props, and art and design elements, and to determine appropriate scheduling, costs, rate sheets, and budgets. Class utilizes distance-learning methodology, with students completing coursework online. Students should contact the instructor during the first week of the semester.

    2 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2031 Moving Image Production II  
  

  • 24-3612 Production Management: Script Supervisor Workshop

    Brief, intensive, online workshop course examines the role of the script supervisor in film production. Content emphasizes the importance of continuity for single camera production, script timing, reporting, lining the script, and monitoring pick-ups and wild tracks. Class utilizes distance-learning methodology, with students completing coursework online. Students should contact the instructor during the first week of the semester.

    1 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2031 Moving Image Production II  
  

  • 24-3613 Production Management: Postproduction Supervisor Workshop (ONLINE)

    Brief, intensive, online workshop course examines the role of the post-production supervisor in film production. Content emphasizes acquisition of post-production personnel and facilities; managing, budgeting, and scheduling workflow; and assuring adherence to delivery requirements as specified by the distribution agreement. Class utilizes distance-learning methodology, with students completing coursework online. Students should contact the instructor during the first week of the semester.

    1 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2030 Project Development, PreProduction, and Preparation  
  

  • 24-3615 Intro to Producing the Commercial

    Course provides an introduction to the role of a commercial producer focusing on the advertising industry, the agencies, the creatives, bidding, as well as the physical/ logistical elements of producing commercials including scheduling, budgeting, crewing up, casting, working with vendors, for stage and location shooting. Course will cover a wide range of short-form content including commercials, corporate videos, to new media content.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-3600 Producing I: Production Team  or 40-2201 The Television Producer 
  

  • 24-3618 Production Management: Location Management Workshop (ONLINE)

    Brief, intensive, online workshop course examines the role of the location manager in film production. Content emphasizes location scouting, analysis of the production’s logistical and budgetary requirements, negotiating with owners, acquisition of permits, and ensuring that legal requirements are met. Class utilizes distance-learning methodology, with students completing coursework online. Students should contact the instructor during the first week of the semester.

    1 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2031 Moving Image Production II  
  

  • 24-3624 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
    PREREQUISITES: 24-1000 Cinema Notebooks  and 24-1001 Cinema Image & Process  or 24-2031 Moving Image Production II  
  

  • 24-3625L Production Design: Concept & Design for Film & Television Production (LA)

    Production Students examine production design approaches and methods from existing and historical films and television shows and apply the conceptual framework to new projects

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-3626L Script Analysis for Production Designers (LA)

    Students learn how to breakdown, schedule and budget a script for production. Topics include the logistics of various productions; materials estimating and purchasing; dealing with vendors including set and prop houses; working with production managers and coordinators; how to alter a budget and/or schedule in mid-production.

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-3627L Script Analysis for Production Designers (LA)

    Students learn the various roles of the Art Department team with particular emphasis on the Art Director. This course will examine how the Art Department fits into the larger organization of a production and what determines budget and time parameters.

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-3628L The Art Director and the Art Department Team (LA)

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-3635 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 Director’s 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 day’s events and are looked to by cast and crew to problem solve on a moment to moment notice before and during production.

    6 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2600 Producing I: Production Team  
  
  

  • 24-3701J Script Rewrite and Polish

    Advanced collaborative workshop course asks students to focus on the subtleties associated with production rewriting from sculpting dialogue, polishing characters to defining the role of theme in the short film arena. Juxtaposed with these creative affairs, students will be introduced to business practices associated with doing rewrite work, including work for hire scenarios. Material for the class must be approved by instructors and Practicum faculty before being admitted into the class

    2 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-4606 Producing III: The Creative Producer  or 24-2710 Screenwriting II: The Feature Film  or 40-2722 Screenwriting II: The Feature Film 
  

  • 24-3705 Autobiography and Memoir

    Memoir and Autobiography is designed to help the student unlock his or her authentic voice. We will do this through autobiographical writing and in-class exercises. Although we will work in nonfiction this process is designed as a starting point–a way to generate unique material that can be transformed into either autobiographical or fictional scripts and films. It is a way to begin, a process by which the student will discover personal themes as well as his or her idiosyncratic style. After generating several stories the student will choose one or more which he or she will develop, edit, and transform into a script for a final presentation.

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

  • 24-3710 Screenwriting III: Senior Thesis

    Based on student goals as identified in Ideation and Theme, course allows the student to develop a final portfolio thesis project. This thesis is the culmination of the skills the student has developed during his/her studies at Columbia.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-3700 Ideation & Theme: Portfolio Review 
  

  • 24-3711L Screenwriting III: Senior Thesis LA

    This course emphasizes the definition of a suitable story and the writing of a feature film script utilizing story, the exploration of genre, and the writing of a feature film script utilizing story development and writing tools such as computer software programs.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 24-3700 Ideation & Theme: Portfolio Review 
  

  • 24-3713 Pitching Series Concept LA

    Course offers opportunity to students participating in the L.A. program to learn and practice the fine art of the pitch, first in the classroom environment and finally to prominent television writers, agents, and producers.

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

  • 24-3713L Pitching Series Concept LA

    Course offers opportunity to students participating in the L.A. program to learn and practice the fine art of the pitch, first in the classroom environment and finally to prominent television writers, agents, and producers.

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

  • 24-3730 Topics in Screenwriting:

    Repeatable course consists of rotating subjects that may be of interest to the developing screenwriter. Previous topics have included historical research for narrative film fiction, screenwriting for interactive media, experimental script writing, and business aspects of screenwriting. Students choose to register for the topic/semester that best addresses their interests and needs. Film and Video majors who are concentrating in Screenwriting are required to take at least one Topics in Screenwriting course.

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

  • 24-3730J Topics in Screenwriting

    Repeatable course consists of rotating subjects that may be of interest to the developing screenwriter. This course is focused for the J-term on one particular skill and aspect of writing for the screen. Students choose to register for the topic/semester that best addresses their interests and needs.

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

  • 24-3731L Topics in Screenwriting: Hollywood Business in LA

    This course offers students participating in the Los Angeles program the opportunity to take part in a lecture series analyzing the business of screenwriting in Hollywood. Some of the lectures will feature prominent screenwriters, agents, and producers.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Accept in Sem in LA Prog
  

  • 24-3732L Topics in Screenwriting: Techniques and Business of Adaptation in LA

    This course offers students the opportunity to take part in a lecture series of prominent screenwriters and producers who have adapted material, as well as lawyers, agents, and producers who will discuss the legal and business side of optioning and adapting preexisitng material.

    3 Credits
    Requirements Accept in Sem in LA Prog
  

  • 24-3733 Conceiving & Writing the Show Bible in LA

    Course offers students the opportunity to develop and write a rudimentary show bible for a one-hour program in a genre of their choice. Focus will be on the process of positioning the show for current market situation.

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

  • 24-3733L Conceiving & Writing the Show Bible in LA

    Course offers students the opprtunity to develop and write a rudimentary show bible for a one-hour program in a genre of their choice. Focus will be on the process of positioning the show for current market situation.

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

  • 24-3735 Script Development Practicum

    This 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. Students will establish and nurture creative partners capable of finding and developing viable short scripts from a wide range of source material; facilitate a deeper understanding of the creative and legal aspects of the film development process; and yield production-ready shooting scripts for the spring practicum production cycle that maximize the potential of the short film form to deliver concentrated (primarily visual) narrative.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 24-4740 Screen Treatment & Presentation  and 24-2715 Adaptation  
  

  • 24-3737 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
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2600 Producing I: Production Team  
  
  

  • 24-3801 Documentary Projects

    This course develops advanced techniques in the process of documentary filmmaking, from idea, research, treatment, shooting techniques, to editing. Students produce a fully developed short documentary film which exhibits a sophisticated approach to documentary concepts, practices, aesthetics, and ethical problems encountered in contemporary documentary filmmaking. Students will workshop ideas leading to a production that communicates meaning, demonstrates an ethical concern for its subjects, affects its audience, and reflects an individual voice.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2807 Documentary Storytelling  
  
  

  • 24-3898 Independent Project: Documentary Production

    Course is designed by the student and supervising faculty to complete a documentary resulting from Documentary Production or Independent Project: Documentary Production. Responsibilities include the logging of rushes, creating transcripts, assembling a paper edit, editing an off-line rough cut, and concluding with an online fine cut. Goal is to have a finished documentary for broadcast. Prior to registration, the student must submit a detailed postproduction schedule.

    1-6 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Permission of Coordinatr
  

  • 24-3899 Independent Project: Documentary Post Production

    Course is designed by the student and supervising faculty to complete a documentary resulting from the class Documentary Production or Independent Project: Documentary Production. Responsibilities include the logging of rushes, creating transcripts, assembling a paper edit, editing an off-line rough cut, and concluding with an on-line fine cut. Goal is to have a finished documentary for broadcast. Prior to registration, the student must submit a detailed postproduction schedule.

    1-6 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
  

  • 24-4020 BFA Studio

    9 Credits
  

  • 24-4030 BFA Thesis

    6 Credits
  

  • 24-4040 BFA Research and Presentation

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-4063 Teacher Training in Film & Video

    Course provides students an opportunity to establish teaching skills and to develop curriculum for foundations curriculum. Participants will discover how they learn and how best to teach others film production. Lectures, along with all support material, will be developed collectively and will become the property of all those involved in the class. Students completing this course will be prepared for the rigors of teaching beginning filmmakers.

    2 Credits
    Requirements Permission of Coordinatr
  

  • 24-4080 Directed Study

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

    1-6 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Application Required
  

  • 24-4203 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
    PREREQUISITES: 24-3202 Special Studies: Cinematography I  and 24-3204 Digital Cinematography  
    Requirements Permission of Instructor
  

  • 24-4210 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 Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 24-4203 Special Studies: Cinematography II  
    Requirements Permission of Coordinatr
  

  • 24-4301L 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
  

  • 24-4302L 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
  

  • 24-4302LJ 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
  

  • 24-4303L 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
  

  • 24-4304 Creativity: Vision and Process

    Course familiarizes students with various 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. Students will then practice those processes under the guidance of the visiting artists.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2301 Cinema Directing I  
  

  • 24-4305 Directing Techniques for the Micro Feature

    This course examines the skills and aesthetics of micro-budgeted feature film cinema as created by directors working outside the established mainstream. Utilizing innovative hardware/software and ideology, micro feature directors evolve the art and practice of their cinema by creating and challenging financial boundaries, narrative topics and develop personal perspective(s) using entrepreneurial and cost/ time effective methodologies. A variety of proven authorial and developmental approaches shall be used for classroom practice with professional examples, instructor guidance and targeted student assignments/ projects.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-3302 Cinema Directing II  
  

  • 24-4310 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
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2301 Cinema Directing I 
  

  • 24-4400A 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
  

  • 24-4400B 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: 24-4400A Editing Practicum I  
    Requirements Permission of Coordinatr
 

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