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2013-2014 Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Cinema Art + Science
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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
Requisites 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2013 Cinema Set Design and Construction Coordination or 24-2011 Cinema Props
24-3020 CVFX: Studio
In this workshop, students will serve as visual effects artists or supervisors on one or more significant short films, in collaboration with students from other disciplines. Emphasis is on the realization of visual elements used in the films, as well as the artistic relationship between the visual effects supervisor, director, and visual effects artists. Students will take on specific roles in visual effects post-production, including compositing, 3D modeling, animation, cinema title design, and VFX supervisor. Each student will be assigned to their role based on prerequisites and a portfolio review. Permission of Instructor
4 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-3209 CVFX: Compositing II or 26-3049 Computer Animation: Visual Effects or 26-3089 Advanced Character & Environmental Design or 26-3046 Advanced Computer Animation: Maya or 26-3050 Acting For Animators or 36-3081 Motion Capture II or 24-4421 Motion Graphics II or 40-3422 Motion Graphics II or 24-3604 VFX Supervisor Workshop or 26-3082 Environmental Design & Modeling I or 26-3086 Character Design and Modeling I
Requirements Permission of Instructor
24-3089 Internship: Film & Video
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:Film & Video 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 Advanced Location Sound Recording
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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2103 Location Sound Recording
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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-3101 Advanced Location Sound Recording
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 film & video. 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
Requisites 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
Requisites 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2103 Location Sound Recording
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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2101 Post-Production Audio I or 24-2102 Post-Production Audio II
Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
24-3200 Lighting II
Course focuses on the visual image and how to arrive at that image through intellectual and physical means. This highly technical class stresses knowledge of technical elements necessary to accomplish the sophisticated marriage of art and science.
4 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-1200 Lighting I and 24-2202 Cinematography:Camera Seminar COREQUISITES: 24-3206 Photo Theory/Lab Practice
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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2202 Cinematography:Camera Seminar COREQUISITES: 24-3200 Lighting II and 24-3202 Special Studies: Cinematography I
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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2201 Image Design for Cinema and 24-2202 Cinematography:Camera Seminar and 24-3206 Photo Theory/Lab Practice and 24-1200 Lighting 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
Requisites 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-3200 Lighting II and 24-3201 Cinematography: Camera Seminar II
Requirements Permission of Instructor
24-3206 Photo Theory/Lab Practice
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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-1200 Lighting I and 24-2201 Image Design for Cinema and 24-2030 Project Development, PreProduction, and Preparation and 24-2031 Moving Image Production II
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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2203 Optical Printing I or 24-2201 Image Design for Cinema or 24-4421 Motion Graphics II
24-3210 Cinematography Practicum
Workshop course requires that Cinematography students work as directors of photography on a significant short film or 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-3203 Special Studies: Cinematography II
Requirements Permission of Coordinatr
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
Requisites 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
Requisites 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
Requisites 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-3202 Special Studies: Cinematography I
Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
24-3302 Directing II
Students direct three scenes shot on HD Video in this workshop class. Students prepare productions from script development, through storyboard, rehearsal, production, and editing. Students complete the first two in-class shoots of an assigned script that they rewrite and reinterpret. Scripts for the last shoot are developed through a series of written assignments. -
6 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2301 Directing I
24-3303 Directing III
Course covers the process of directing one’s own dramatic material, from preparation of a script breakdown to final cut. Using digital video, instruction emphasizes collaborative skills needed to work with a cinematographer, sound recorder, and editor. Projects for this class may be based on the student’s own screenwriting. Students apply for admittance by submitting a very short, dramatically effective screenplay that is ready for pre-production.
6 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-3302 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-3302 Directing II
Requirements Permission of Coordinator
24-3398 Independent Project: Directing
Independent project course is designed by the student, with the approval of a supervising faculty member, to pursue directing projects beyond the scope of the directing course of study. Students must complete a rigorous application process prior to enrollment.
1-6 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2301 Directing I
Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
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
Requisites 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES:
Requirements Permission of Coordinatr
24-3401 Online Editing Practicum
Course explores strategies for the conforming and mastering of film projects. Students learn color correction, compositing, image stabilization and scratch and dirt removal with the Avid Symphony digital editing system. The editor/client relationship will be emphasized, as students will perform an on-line of a practicum film in consultation with off-line editors, producers, directors, and cinematographers.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2402 Editing II and 24-4428 Online Editing
Requirements Permission of Instructor
24-3410 Career Planning: Post-Production
This workshop is opened to all F&V 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-4406 Advanced Editing Seminar or 24-3400 Editing Practicum
24-3500 Cinema Studies II
Using mostly primary texts, course examines and interrogates some of the basic concepts of contemporary film and video studies. The course focuses on four areas: journalistic criticism, historiography and applied historical writing, film theory and current trends in all the foregoing areas. Students will read original texts and write papers that demonstrate their understanding of them. The assignments will include short responses to the readings, as well as extended papers that analyze and critiques the readings. Student will be encouraged as the course progresses to choose an area of special interest to explore in a term paper or extended application of the material.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2500 Cinema Studies I
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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2030 Project Development, PreProduction, and Preparation and 24-2031 Moving Image Production II and 24-25 or 24-1500 and 24-1510
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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2030 Project Development, PreProduction, and Preparation and 24-2031 Moving Image Production II and 24-25 or 24-1500 and 24-1510
24-3503 Advanced Seminar in Cinema Studies I
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2030 Project Development, PreProduction, and Preparation and 24-2031 Moving Image Production II and 24-25 or 24-1500 and 24-1510
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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-3503 Advanced Seminar in Cinema Studies I
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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2030 Project Development, PreProduction, and Preparation and 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2030 Project Development, PreProduction, and Preparation and 24-2031 Moving Image Production II or 24-1020 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
Requisites COREQUISITES: 24-3600 Producing I: Production Team or 24-1300 Acting Techniques for Filmmakers
24-3601J The Art and Business of Casting: Casting Director Workshop for Film and Video
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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-1020 Production II and 24-1500 and 24-1510 and 24-1710 Scrnwriting I: Writing the Short Film or 24-1300 Acting Techniques for Filmmakers or 24-2030 Project Development, PreProduction, and Preparation and 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-1020 Production II and 24-1500 and 24-1510 and 24-1710 Scrnwriting 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
Requisites 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
Requisites 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-3600 Producing I: Production Team or 40-2201 The Television Producer
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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2030 Project Development, PreProduction, and Preparation and 24-2031 Moving Image Production II or 24-1020 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2030 Project Development, PreProduction, and Preparation and 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2030 Project Development, PreProduction, and Preparation and 24-2031 Moving Image Production II or 24-1020 Production II
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
Requisites 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2030 Project Development, PreProduction, and Preparation and 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
24-3630 Strategic Distribution for Filmmakers
This course focuses on the practical step-by-step process of creating and implementing strategies to launch short-form content into current distribution and festival venues. Having a good film is not enough, a producer must identify specific elements in the film across a myriad of different and evolving technology and trend-driven platforms, as well as be able to effectively secure distribution.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-3600 Producing I: Production Team or 24-2301 Directing I
24-3700 Ideation & Theme: Portfolio Review
Course provides an opportunity for screenwriting students to revisit work completed throughout their tenure in the screenwriting program. Students critique their previous work in an effort to understand their themes and styles, their strengths and weaknesses, and their development as a writer. This examination assists students in setting professional goals as screenwriters, whether that includes working in Hollywood or the independent scene. Course is recommended for seniors.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2705 Comparative Screenwriting: and 24-2720 Genres in Screenwriting: and 24-4740 Screen Treatment & Presentation or 24-2720 Genres in Screenwriting: and 24-2715 Adaptation and 24-4740 Screen Treatment & Presentation or 24-2705 Comparative Screenwriting: and 24-2720 Genres in Screenwriting: and 24-2715 Adaptation
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
Requisites 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
Requisites 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
Requisites 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
Requisites 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2201 The Television Producer and 40-2202
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
Requisites 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
Requisites 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 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2201 The Television Producer and 40-2202
Requirements Accept in Sem in LA Prog
24-3735 Script Development Practicum
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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2710 Screenwriting II: The Feature Film and 24-4740 Screen Treatment & Presentation and 24-2715 Adaptation
24-3741L Screen Treatment & Presentation II in LA
This course gives students the opportunity to learn and practice methods of pitching and marketing film ideas, primarily using the student’s script from Screenwriting III (24-3711, taken concurrently).
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites CONCURRENT: 24-3711 and 24-2731 and 24-3731
Requirements Accept in Sem in LA Prog
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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2030 Project Development, PreProduction, and Preparation and 24-2031 Moving Image Production II or 24-1020 Production II
24-3820 Topics in Documentary
Production course for advanced documentary students studies and engages in various subgenres of documentary filmmaking. Such past topics have included visualizing the documentary, the nature film documentary, and cinema verite. Students may repeat this course as topics change.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2030 Project Development, PreProduction, and Preparation and 24-2031 Moving Image Production II or 24-1020 Production II
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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2801 Documentary I
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
24-4063 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
24-4301L 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
24-4303L 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2301 Directing I or 24-6021 Production II and 24-6022 Theory & History of Cinema and 24-6423 Editing for Film & Video
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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2301 Directing I
24-4403 Editing the Documentary
This course provides documentary editing experience and creative collaborations on original work developed by students in the documentary production classes. Pre-production planning, on set workflow issues and handling large amounts of media in the edit room are discussed from the post-production perspective. Students will add original creative work for their editing reels from the projects completed in this class.
4 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2401 Editing I or 24-2809 Documentary Production I: Basic Field Production or 40-2302 Production & Editing I
24-4404 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
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2402 Editing II
24-4405 Advanced Editing: Finishing Strategies
Course explores strategies for the conforming and mastering of film and video projects. Students learn color correction, compositing, image stabilization, and wire and dirt removal with the Avid Symphony digital editing system. The editor/client relationship will be emphasized, as students will perform online edits in consultation with off-line editors and directors.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2402 Editing II
24-4406 Advanced Editing Seminar
This intensive course provides an opportunity for editing students to collaborate on original creative work by advanced direction, thesis and independent projects in a seminar environment. Deadlines are strictly enforced as editors collaborate with students in other areas of expertise in creating a short digital narrative project. Students also develop an extensive written career plan to showcase their creative work and important portfolio materials such as website, editing samples, resume, cover letters, business cards, etc.
4 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2402 Editing II
24-4408 Editing the Feature
This course teaches advanced editing students professional techniques and protocols while editing a feature length film. Students develop the necessary skills needed to organize and manipulate large amounts of material, to apply their creative skills to tell a complete three-act story, and to deliver postproduction materials suitable for complex sound design and color correction. Students work as a team directly with the director and/or producer of an original creative work. Students should allow additional time for editing assignments outside the classroom.
4 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2402 Editing II or 24-4403 Editing the Documentary or 24-3801 Documentary Projects
24-4420 Motion Graphics I
Course teaches techniques to digitally integrate software and composite layers of images. Discussions of digital and optical effects from conception to design encourage students to make creative use of software.
4 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2031 Moving Image Production II and 24-2030 Project Development, PreProduction, and Preparation or 26-3040 Animation Storyboard & Concept Development or 24-1020 Production II or 24-2401A Editing I COREQUISITES: 24-2401 Editing I
24-4421 Motion Graphics II
Course teaches complex film and video compositing under tight deadlines using advanced high-end systems. Course emphasizes storyboarding and design as well as postproduction house protocols.
4 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 26-2015 Introduction to Computer Animation or 40-3411 Motion Graphics I or 24-4420 Motion Graphics I
24-4422 Motion Graphics III
Students in this course complete a series of projects modeled upon current professional practices while refining design and research skills. Student projects include a team-based client work, an independent textual interpretation or research-inspired animation, and additional short animations. The team-based projects will include interaction with the client/s. Research, ideation, prototyping, production and evaluation will be a collective and collaborative process. Students develop a portfolio-based web site that includes video samples, a personal statement and resume.
4 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 26-3045A Computer Animation: Maya or 26-3045B Computer Animation: Softimage/ XSI or 26-3045C Computer Animation: 3-DS Max or 24-4421 Motion Graphics II
24-4424 On-Line Workshop for Editors
Two-day seminar course enables students to perform online edits and learn the basic operation of Discreet Logic Edit.
1 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2402 Editing II
24-4425 The Assistant Editor
This course examines the role of the feature film assistant editor past, present and future, with a focus on providing hands-on experience using traditional and current skills associated with this position. In addition to exploring the responsibilities associated with the preparation and organization of digital elements sutdents will conform a short film from a digital edit as a basis of understanding the evolution of current post-production processes.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2401 Editing I
24-4426 Photoshop Workshop for Editors
Intensive two-day seminar course in Photoshop assists editing students in video finishing. Photoshop can be used as a tool for graphics production for film and video. Students will learn titling, alpha channels, mattes, etc.
1 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2401 Editing I or 24-2401A Editing I
24-4426J Photoshop Workshop for Editors
Intensive two-day seminar course in Photoshop assists editing students in video finishing. Photoshop can be used as a tool for graphics production for film and video. Students will learn titling, alpha channels, mattes, etc.
1 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2401 Editing I or 24-4426J
24-4427 Post Production Supervisor
Course is designed for the advanced editing student who is working as a postproduction producer. Content emphasizes pre-production decisions necessary for postproduction: scheduling, budgeting, hiring personnel, and allocating facilities and equipment. Class explores various national and international distribution requirements. Students learn strategies for communicating with third-party vendors including sound, labs, and postproduction houses. Course uses a feature length film as model.
3 Credits
24-4428 Online Editing
Course provides an advanced editing experience in three areas: developing skills to manipulate large amounts of film and audio material, acquiring the means to apply those skills, and using Avid Media/Film Composer equipment to complete assigned projects. Students also learn the organizational skills necessary to edit projects on the Avid Media/Film Composer and to gain advanced knowledge of post-production protocols in digital editing. Students receive critiques of their work after each project to determine the development of their proficiency of craft and creativity. Course culminates in the editing of a film project from off-line to on-line and the generation of a keycode cutlist.
4 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2402 Editing II
24-4429 Experimental Editing
Through a series of exercises, course teaches alternative editing strategies for both narrative and non-narrative work. Students cut three short projects based on each covered experimental tradition and then a longer final project. Projects develop with increasing complexity and enable students to apply their ideas about experimental film to their material to develop their own style and aesthetic. Students receive critiques of their work after each project to determine the progress of their proficiency of craft and creativity.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2910 Production III or 24-2401 Editing I
24-4430 The Machine Room
Course is an intensive two-day seminar in machine-room technology. The machine room is the heart of a post-production facility. Students will learn video and audio signal patching and monitoring. The mechanics of professional videotape decks, patchbays, distribution amps, waveform monitors, and vectorscopes will be covered. This practicum prepares students for post-production industry entrance exams.
1 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2401 Editing I
24-4430J The Machine Room
Course is an intensive two-day seminar in machine-room technology. The machine room is the heart of a post-production facility. Students will learn video and audio signal patching and monitoring. The mechanics of professional videotape decks, patchbays, distribution amps, waveform monitors and vectorscopes will be covered. This practicum prepares students for post-production industry entrance exams.
1 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2401 Editing I
24-4433 Studies in Motion Graphics
Repeatable course allows students to study and analyze a different style of motion graphics each semester. Throughout the course, students investigate case studies in the selected style and apply it to their own work. Students should already have a working knowledge of Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator at an intermediate level. Students will study the aesthetic and technical history of digital special effects. Through focusing on case studies, students will breakdown the process of 3-D compositing and apply to in-class exercises. Students will also collaborate in compositing 3-D and live action elements to a special effects scene.
4 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-4420 Motion Graphics I
24-4492 Independent Project: Postproduction
Course provides the independent editor with an opportunity to log and organize his/her project in preparation for editing.
1-6 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-2401 Editing I or 24-2910 Production III
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