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People Photography

Explore all forms of people photography. Using skills in graphic design, emotional input portraiture, and appropriate lighting, you’ll learn to shoot people for use in all fields, including illustration, fashion, and documentary.

Digital Photography Concepts and Techniques

Build a solid technical foundation in digital photography. You’ll gain skills by practicing camera controls, capture techniques, improving quality of light, image editing, and composition.

Making the Documentary

Become a documentary filmmaker. In this course you will explore the roots and trajectory of this ever-expanding form of filmmaking. You will watch numerous award-winning documentaries to examine how the genre pushes boundaries to tell real stories. You will conceptualize, shoot and edit your own documentary projects. (This course is… Read More

Visual Storytelling

Discover the power of visual storytelling by studying the work of great directors and cinematographers. You will make numerous short films demonstrating a variety of pictorial concepts, refining your visual vocabulary. (This course is cross-listed with MPT 377.)

Exterior Lighting

In this course, students will learn creative and technical approaches in lighting exteriors for day and night. Students will gain hands on experience with the operational procedures of working on a professional film set. Shooting will be done in both digital and film formats. (This course is cross-listed with MPT… Read More

Introduction to Producing

Are youcreative producer material? You’ll learn to identify and acquire the rights to material, how to raise financing and secure distribution, create a marketing plan, and work as a creative producer in all stages of production.

Directing Actors for Film & TV

Gain experience being a director by working with actors on film sets. While concentratingon screenplay analysis, you’ll direct actors through the rehearsal process and shooting of a basic scene. You’ll learn the best way to communicate with actors to become “an actor’s director”.

Fall Production Central

This two-semester portfolio course feels like a real-world production company, where you will write, direct, or produce at least 2 different projects: an assessment scene, and a thesis film. In this hands-on advanced production environment writers, directors, and producers collaborate todevelop scripts in the first semester along with writing and… Read More

Creative Perspectives in Sound Design

Studying motion pictures-from their inception through 1978-you’ll learn how sound design supports the aesthetic and narrative elements of the story. You’ll study the importance of sound design, the influence of technologies, and key historical figures in the history of soundtracks to improve your own creative works.

U.S. History

Study the birth and growth of a nation. You’ll examine American Federalism and the significant political, historical, and cultural events in the United States from Colonial times through the 20th century.