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Content Creation: Advanced Editing

In this advanced class, you will apply your skills to edit original narrative and documentary projects shot by students in the film schools and sometimes by outside clients. You will gain extensive hands-on experience of the final post-production process under the mentorship of an industry editor and showrunner. Focus on… Read More

Content Creation: Making the Music Video

Discover what it takes to create a music video. After you focus on breaking down and timing out a song and presenting initial concepts, you will concept, storyboard, shoot, edit, and complete a music video. (This course is cross-listed with MPT 450.)

Fall Production Central

In this advanced course, teams of students work in a production environment to develop scripts and prepare, shoot and post projects. Students will troubleshoot and solve development and production problems working in assigned roles. Students will become adept at implementing notes to improve projects, as in a studio model. (This… Read More

Writing the Feature Film 1 (Fall)

Gain the skills to generate feature film ideas, develop characters, craft an outline, and begin your screenplay. (This course is cross-listed with WRI 660.)

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.

Writing for Production: Shot in a Day

Write and develop material for production. You’ll create and write short films focusing on three-dimensional character development that can be shot on our sound stages as class projects and thesis films. (This course is cross-listed with MPT 808WSD.)

Advanced Cinematography Workshop (Fall)

You will be taught 35mm techniques in both Arriflex and Mitchell formats from the viewpoint of the first assistant cameraman along with how to light and shoot night interiors and products. Image quality of 35mm and HD cameras will be compared. Specialty cinematography is discussed, including underwater, car mounts, rigs,… Read More

Advanced Cinematography Workshop (Fall)

You will be taught 35mm techniques in both Arriflex and Mitchell formats from the viewpoint of the first assistant cameraman along with how to light and shoot night interiors and products. Image quality of 35mm and HD cameras will be compared. Specialty cinematography is discussed, including underwater, car mounts, rigs,… Read More

Advanced Editing: Fall

In this advanced class, you will apply your skills to edit original narrative and documentary projects shot by students in the film schools and sometimes by outside clients. You will gain extensive hands-on experience of the final post-production process under the mentorship of an industry editor and showrunner. Focus on… Read More

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 to develop scripts in the first semester along with writing… Read More