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2016-2017 Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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  • 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
    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
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2402 Editing II  or 24-4403 Editing the Documentary  or 24-3801 Documentary Projects 
  
  

  • 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
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2421 Motion Graphics II  
  

  • 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
  

  • 24-4428 Digital Cinema Mastering

    Course provides an advanced editing experience in three areas: developing skills necessary to manipulate large amounts of cinema source material, acquiring the means to apply those skills while working with clients, and using nonlinear editing and color correction equipment to complete assigned online editing and cinema mastering projects. Students also learn organizational skills necessary to edit projects and gain advanced knowledge of post-production protocols in offline editing and the generation of EDLs and KeyKode cutlists, video online editing and digital cinema mastering. Students work on advanced cinema and high definition projects on industry leading nonlinear editing and color correction software. Digital Intermediates and Digital Cinema Packages will also be covered. Students receive critiques of their work after each project to determine the development of their proficiency of craft and creativity. Course culminates in the finishing of a cinema project from an off-line creative edit to a digital cinema master.

    4 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2402 Editing II  
  

  • 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
    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
    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
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2401 Editing I  
    Requirements Application Required and Permission of Coordinatr
  

  • 24-4493 Independent Project: Editing Narrative Short

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

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

  • 24-4608 Producing V: Production Practicum

    Workshop course partners students with other practicum students including directors, editors, post-production supervisors, production designers, and others to produce a significant, short production within the semester of no more than 10 minutes in length that is festival- and distribution-ready. Emphasis is on creative collaboration script development, crew assembly and pre-production, production management, and post-production supervision. Producing students are required to take Producing IV and provide a detailed application for entry into this course.

    6 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Permission of Coordinatr
  

  • 24-4615 Advanced First Assistant Director

    Course would focus on applied advanced first assistant director skills, including short and feature film scheduling, calling roll on-set, collaborating with the director and other key crew during production, working in both union and non-union settings, and wrangling associated production documentation.

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

  • 24-4621 Producing: Distribution & Marketing Workshop (ONLINE)

    Brief, intensive, online workshop course examines distribution and marketing strategies in the film production cycle. Course focuses on the nature of distribution deals, marketing campaigns, and finding and researching distributors. Class utilizes distance-learning methodology, with students completing coursework online. Students should contact the instructor during the first week of the semester.

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

  • 24-4622 Producing: Film Financing Workshop (ONLINE)

    Brief, intensive, online workshop course examines methods and types of film financing, placing emphasis on using appropriate legal structures for each production. Instruction explores the current state of the market to determine appropriate budgets. Class utilizes distance-learning methodology, with students completing coursework online. Students should contact the instructor during the first week of the semester.

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

  • 24-4623 Producing: Legal Elements Workshop (ONLINE)

    Brief, intensive, online workshop course examines basic legal elements and requirements for filmmakers, including copyright, literary options, clearances, and deals. Content addresses the method for finding an entertainment and intellectual property attorney. Class utilizes distance-learning methodology, with students completing coursework online. Students should contact the instructor during the first week of the semester.

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

  • 24-4626 Producing III: Film Financing

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

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

  • 24-4630L Concept, Pitch & Sales - Los Angeles

    This course examines how films are sold to major studios, producers, and distributors. In this class, students learn first how to shape the initial idea, how to deliver the pitch, and how to negotiate a deal. Course emphasizes not only the theory of the pitch but its practice as well. Course admission is by application.

    3 Credits
    Requirements Accept in Sem in LA Prog
  

  • 24-4631L Studio Producing - Los Angeles

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

    3 Credits
    Requirements Accept in Sem in LA Prog
  

  • 24-4632L The Line Producer/Los Angeles

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

    3 Credits
    Requirements Accept in Sem in LA Prog
  

  • 24-4633L Research & Analysis of the Film & Television Industries (LA)

    This course teaches students to perform sophisticated research and analysis of selected production and distribution companies in the film and television industries. Use of specific industry databases and trade journals is covered as well as the use of primary and secondary source research. Students will learn how to use research to prepare analysis and professional reports.

    3 Credits
    Requirements Accept in Sem in LA Prog
  

  • 24-4656 Independent Project Producing - Los Angeles

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

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

  • 24-4660 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
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2600 Producing I: Production Team  or 24-2301 Cinema Directing I  
  

  • 24-4689 Internship: LA

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

    0 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Accept in Sem in LA Prog
  

  • 24-4690 Independent Project-Producing: Preproduction

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

    0 Credits
    Requirements Application Required
  

  • 24-4691 Independent Project-Producing: Production

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

    1-6 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
  

  • 24-4692 Independent Project Producing: Case Study

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

    1-6 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
  

  • 24-4693 Independent Project-Producing: Production

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

    1-6 Credits Repeatable
    Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
  
  

  • 24-4742 The Business of Screenwriting

    This course instructs students how the inner workings of the film industry directly affect their ambitions as screenwriters. They will understand that there is much more to being a screenwriter than writing the script alone. Course will give the students a working knowledge of finding an agent, researching producers for their material, dealing with studios, understanding different types of contracts, copyright law and the Writers Guild of America. Students will also have a chance to take their scripts through a professional submission process to the agent or production company of their choice.

    3 Credits Repeatable
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2710 Screenwriting II: The Feature Film  and 24-1700 Script Analysis  or 40-2722 Screenwriting II: The Feature Film  and 24-1700 Script Analysis 
  
  
  

  • 24-4861 Directing the Biographical Documentary

    6 Credits
  
  

  • 24-4902 Experimental Production II

    Project-centered course stimulates and assists students in the creation of an alternative film, video, or digital work. Students will employ an aesthetic that explores, challenges, or subverts mainstream narrative or documentary structures. The class builds on topics from Experimental Production I, including camera experimentation and image manipulation as well as the development of personal, political, or social themes. Festivals, distribution, and marketing of experimental film and video will also be emphasized. The class will produce a show at the end of the semester.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2901 Experimental Production I  
  

  • 24-5063 Teacher Training in Film & Video

    2 Credits
  

  • 24-5080 Directed Study

    1-6 Credits
  

  • 24-5301L Directing in the Studio System

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

    4 Credits
  

  • 24-5302L The Professional Director

    This Los Angeles-based course looks at the director at work. A variety of professional film and television directors will rotate through the course, showing how directors analyze and break down text, prepare for shooting, rehearse actors, and block action for the camera. Students will critique and analyze dailies with professional directors. Prerequisite: Acceptance into L.A. program.

    4 Credits
  

  • 24-5302LJ The Professional Director

    4 Credits
  

  • 24-5303L Casting, Blocking and Directing Actors

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

    4 Credits
  

  • 24-5304 Creativity: Vision and Process

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

    3 Credits
    Requirements Phase I
  

  • 24-5305 Directing Techniques for the Micro Feature

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-5310 Directing for the Camera

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

    6 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-2301 Cinema Directing I 
  

  • 24-5406 Advanced Editing Seminar

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

    4 Credits
  

  • 24-5408 Editing the Feature

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

    4 Credits
  

  • 24-5422 Motion Graphics III

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

    4 Credits
  

  • 24-5426J Photoshop Workshop for Editors

    1 Credits
  

  • 24-5428 Digital Cinema Mastering

    Course provides an advanced editing experience in three areas: developing skills necessary to manipulate large amounts of cinema source material, acquiring the means to apply those skills while working with clients, and using nonlinear editing and color correction equipment to complete assigned online editing and cinema mastering projects.Students also learn organizational skills necessary to edit projects and gain advanced knowledge of post-production protocols in offline editing and the generation of EDLs and KeyKode cutlists, video online editing and digital cinema mastering. Students work on advanced cinema and high definition projects on industry leading nonlinear editing and color correction software. Digital Intermediates and Digital Cinema Packages will also be covered.Students receive critiques of their work after each project to determine the development of their proficiency of craft and creativity. Course culminates in the finishing of a cinema project from an off-line creative edit to a digital cinema master.

    4 Credits
  

  • 24-5430 The Machine Room+

    An intensive two-day seminar in machine-room technology. The machine room is the heart of a post-production facility. Students will learn video and audio signal patching and monitoring. The mechanics of professional videotape decks, patchbays, distribution amps, waveform monitors and vectorscopes will be covered. This practicum prepares students for post-production industry entrance exams.

    1 Credits
  

  • 24-5433 Studies in Motion Graphics

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

    4 Credits
  

  • 24-5493 Independent Project: Editing Narrative Short

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

    1-6 Credits
  

  • 24-5494 Independent Project: Editing Documentary Short

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

    1-6 Credits
  

  • 24-5495 Independent Project: Editing Experimental Short

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

    0 Credits
  

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

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

    1-6 Credits
  

  • 24-5497 Independent Project: Editing Music Video

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

    1-6 Credits
  

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

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

    1-6 Credits
  

  • 24-5608 Producing V: Production Practicum

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

    6 Credits
  

  • 24-5614 The Assistant Director’s Workshop

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-5615 Advanced First Assistant Director

    The course would focus on applied advanced First Assistant Director skills, including short and feature film scheduling, calling roll on-set, collaborating with the Director and other key crew during production, working in both union and non-union settings, and wrangling associated production documentation.

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-5621 Producing: Distribution & Marketing Workshop (ONLINE)

    Brief, intensive workshop examines distribution and marketing strategies in the film production cycle. Course focuses on the nature of distribution deals, marketing campaigns, and finding and researching distributors. Course utilizes hybrid teaching-learning modes, meeting one time while students complete coursework and providing additional feedback online.

    1 Credits
  

  • 24-5622 Producing: Film Financing Workshop (ONLINE)+

    Brief, intensive workshop examines methods and types of film financing, placing emphasis on using appropriate legal structures for each production. Instruction explores the current state of the market to determine appropriate budgets. Course utilizes hybrid teaching-learning modes, meeting one time while students complete coursework and providing additional feedback online.

    1 Credits
  

  • 24-5623 Producing: Legal Elements Workshop (ONLINE)

    Brief, intensive workshop examines basic legal elements and requirements for filmmakers, including copyright, literary options, clearances, and deals. Content addresses the method for finding an entertainment and intellectual property attorney. Course utilizes hybrid teaching-learning modes, meeting one time while students complete coursework and providing additional feedback online.

    1 Credits
  

  • 24-5626 Producing III: Film Financing

    No description available.

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-5630L Concept, Pitch & Sales - Los Angeles

    This course examines how films are sold to major studios, producers, and distributors. In this class, students learn first how to shape the initial idea, how to deliver the pitch, and how to negotiate a deal. Course emphasizes not only the theory of the pitch but its practice as well.

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-5631L Studio Producing - Los Angeles

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

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-5632L The Line Producer/Los Angeles

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

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-5633L Research & Analysis of the Film & Television Industries (LA)

    This course teaches students to perform sophisticated research and analysis of selected production and distribution companies in the film and television industries. Use of specific industry databases and trade journals is covered as well as the use of primary and secondary source research. Students will learn how to use research to prepare analysis and professional reports.

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-5656 Independent Project Producing - Los Angeles+

    0 Credits
  

  • 24-5689 Internship: LA

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

    0 Credits
  

  • 24-5690 Independent Project-Producing: Preproduction+

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

    0 Credits
    Requirements Application Required
  

  • 24-5691 Independent Project-Producing: Production+

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

    1-6 Credits
  

  • 24-5692 Independent Project Producing: Case Study

    1-6 Credits
    Requirements Application Required
  

  • 24-5693 Independent Project-Producing: Production+

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

    1-6 Credits
    Requirements Application Required
  

  • 24-5740 Screen Treatment & Presentation

    This course develops students’ skills in presenting their film ideas orally and in written treatment format. Course builds on concepts learned in Screenwriting I and Screenwriting II. Students master techniques to improve their oral pitching skills, learn how to write a query letter, and explore ways to improve their storytelling abilties. Course emphasizes rewriting and developing skills to sell screenplays.

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

  • 24-5742 The Business of Screenwriting

    Students will learn how the inner workings of the film industry directly affect their ambitions as screenwriters. They will understand that there is much more to being a screenwriter than writing the script alone. This course will give the students a working knowledge of finding an agent, researching producers for their material, dealing with studios, understanding different types of contracts, copyright law and the Writers Guild of America. Students will also have a chance to take their scripts through a professional submission process to the agent or production company of their choice.

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

  • 24-5810 Producing the Documentary

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

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-5852 The Documentary Practicum

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

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-5861 Directing the Biographical Documentary

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

    6 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-6430 Editing Theory and Practice  
  

  • 24-5900 Music Video Production

    4 Credits
  

  • 24-5902 Experimental Production II

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-6011 Production I

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

    6 Credits
  

  • 24-6021 Production II

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

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

  • 24-6022 Theory & History of Cinema

    The course explores the basic concepts of film and video theory. It also covers important developments in world cinema from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century to the present. It aims to provide an aesthetic understanding of the style exercises in Film Production II; to provide an aesthetic and theoretical grounding for issues of our program such as subtext, dramatic structure, and authorship; to provide a perspective on the aesthetic options available to a filmmaker from both within and outside of mainstream industry practice; and to provide a grid for placing one’s ideas and work within the contexts of film history, culture, and art.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-6011 Production I  and 24-6312 Directing I (MFA)  and 24-6713 Screenwriting I  COREQUISITES: 24-6021 Production II 
  

  • 24-6031 Production III

    This project-oriented course introduces filmmakers to experimental production and post-production techniques. Students create short films and videos that are theme-based, experiment with non-narrative structure, and clearly communicate the maker’s intent to a target audience. Students express a chosen theme through several different genres and become conversant with the principles of portable digital video acquisition and nonlinear editing.

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

  • 24-6033 Short Forms

    Short Forms offers an aesthetic and historical overview of alternative and experimental approaches to structuring the short film or video. Taught from a filmmaker’s point of view, the class emphasizes experimental styles and techniques rooted in the expression of personal vision and introduces students to the careers of several independent/experimental filmmakers. Short Forms also addresses practical aspects of working as an independent filmmaker, such as film festivals, grants, low budget production methods and internet promotion and distribution. Students conduct film research and analysis. Screenings and readings accompany each unit.

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-6060 Thesis Seminar

    Students work intensively on a thesis project proposal based on responses from their instructor, graduate faculty and outside professional readers. The goal is to generate a well-developed dramatic treatment, and then a refined draft script of the thesis project (20mins or less) and secure two thesis advisers from the graduate faculty. Continuation in either form to the thesis stage requires that the student secure two thesis advisors after a maximum of two semesters of taking the course. Students are required to complete production packages detail with budget, fund raising, & marketing plan.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-6351 Directing III 
  
  

  • 24-6071J Graduate Thesis: CA+S

    Students work with 2 thesis advisors on the required thesis film or video project.

    1 Credits
  

  • 24-6089 Internship: Cinema Art + Science

    1-6 Credits
  

  • 24-6098 Indep Proj:Film/Video Prod

    1-6 Credits
  

  • 24-6101 Post Production Audio I

    This is the graduate portion of a combined undergraduate/graduate course. The techniques of digital sampling (i.e., the storage, manipulation, and playback of sound effects using a computer) has become an important tool of the contemporary filmmaker. This course will explore the concepts of the digital storage and processing of sound and methods of creating and manipulating sound effects using a microcomputer. Students will progress through a series of production exercises that allow them to gain actual practical experience in the creation of a film soundtrack.

    4 Credits
  

  • 24-6103 Location Sound Recording

    4 Credits
  

  • 24-6200 Lighting I

    Course introduces basic film lighting techniques for students with little or no studio lighting experience. Students become familiar with important safety procedures and the uses of standard pieces of lighting equipment. The role of grip and gaffer on the film set is also explored. Special attention is given to important light measuring techniques, including use of the spotmeter. Course encourages intelligent, thoughtful approaches to lighting based on dramatic structure and script.

    4 Credits
  

  • 24-6201 Image Design for Cinema

    The class deals with issues of visual communication and design of the cinematographic image. Through lectures, practical assignments and critiques, students refine their ability to see, conceive, and communicate with images. They also develop critical thinking necessary for filmmakers when creating the visual concept of the story.

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-6202 Cinematography:Camera Seminar

    Course gives students working knowledge of 16mm motion picture camera equipment. Operation and maintenance procedures are specified for each camera. Instruction also covers duties of the camera assistant and operator.

    4 Credits
  

  • 24-6300 Acting and Directing Workshop

    Course is designed to introduce fundamentals of the actor’s craft to directing students. Students learn various acting techniques and apply them to basic directing methods. The relationship between actor, text, and director is emphasized through analysis, rehearsal, and scene work. Intended outcome is an understanding of the actor’s process and the collaboration and communication necessary between actors and directors.

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-6302 Introduction to Screen Directing: Character and the Visual Expression of Character

    This course is designed to ensure that students entering the MFA Screen Directing program in Film & Video have a broad, basic knowledge of screen directing and how they will develop as directors as they proceed through the program. This three-week full time workshop uses lectures, demonstrations and hands-on practice to cover the key foundational principles, analytical skills and requisite technical information for understanding Character and revealing Character through Cinematic Expression in both documentary and fiction film. The course is led by a team of two Film & Video faculty members and includes case studies and guest presentations.

    6 Credits
    Requirements Acceptance in the prgm
  

  • 24-6312 Directing I (MFA)

    This course teaches the basics of the craft of directing, including text analysis, characterization, casting, blocking, rehearsal and performance. Students learn the tool of the director’s breakdown and its uses in preparing a movie for production, concentrating on scenes from well-known plays and films. The emphasis is on conversion of dramatic texts into emotionally effective performances; camerawork is withheld so as to focus on the relationship between actor, text, and director. Students also learn to make connections between their own inner lives and the work they direct, as well as to apply the lessons of society, history, and current events to the text at hand. Everyone acts as well as directing. As a final project, each student casts and directs a scene of his or her own choosing.

    3 Credits
  

  • 24-6341 Directing II

    In this workshop class, students direct short scenes for the camera in order to refine the material and bring it to dramatic life. Students guide scenes from pre-production through production and post-production, and exercise a broad range of directorial responsibilities. Exercises utilize pre-existing material, two of which are chosen by the instructor. The class concentrates on developing blocking skills, using composition and actor movement to emphasize the dramatic subtext of a scene. Students work at defining character, motivation, and conflict throughout directing the material. Besides the discussion of necessary craft skills, emphasis is placed on developing basic directing and storytelling skills such as: visual continuity, effective blocking, appropriate composition, and movement within a scene. Inevitably, this is tied to the student’s ability to define character, motivation, and conflict through an understanding of story and subtext.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-6031 Production III  and 24-6033 Short Forms  and 24-6832 Documentary I 
  

  • 24-6351 Directing III

    Using a short script developed in Ideation and Theme, this course covers the whole process of directing one’s own dramatic material, from preparation of a breakdown through final cut. Students will learn the collaborative skills needed to work with a cinematographer and editor, as well as how to maintain continuity of direction through each stage of production. Projects generated by this course may be short independent pieces, or exploratory work on MFA theses in early stages of development.

    3 Credits
    PREREQUISITES: 24-6700 Ideation and Theme  and 24-6341 Directing II 
 

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