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The Power of Story

Storytellers are powerful people. They wield character development, dialogue, conflict, and structure to tell stories that change the world. You’ll develop these storytelling skills by creating an outline and beginning to write a short film. (This course is cross-listed with MPT 166.)

Breaking through the Noise of Social Media

No matter what you make-app, fashion line, game, product, film-social media marketing creates an impact. You’ll learn to secure funds, and practice building your brand, attracting supporters, and navigating multitudes of social media channels to bring your dream project to life. (This course is cross-listed with MPT 204, MPT 705,… Read More

Into the Industry

Develop the professional collateral needed to enter the entertainment industry. Create a professional website, resume, demo reel, and a personal pitch. Create and package a project to market to the industry upon graduation. (This course is cross-listed with ACT 710 and MPT 495.)

Cinematography 1

This course offers you hands-on practice in lighting, staging of scenes and blocking for the camera, as seen from the director of photography’s perspective. Your projects will be 16mm color film or digital with dialog recorded.

Motion Picture Theory and Style

Study the history of film and evolution of motion picture style in camera, lighting, editing, mise-en-scene, sound, story, and performance. You’ll examine the aesthetic developments and innovations that influence contemporary works.

Edit 1: The Art of Editing

Video editing can be a very powerful visual storytelling tool. Using Adobe Premiere Pro, you will use montage, screen direction, continuity, and stylistic concepts to edit a narrative scene.

Scene Production Laboratory

Develop the skills necessary to become a productive member of a film crew. You’ll collaborate to write, produce, direct, and edit short scenes within a fixed schedule and a set budget.

Breaking through the Noise of Social Media

No matter what you make-app, fashion line, game, product, film-social media marketing creates an impact. You’ll learn to secure funds, and practice building your brand, attracting supporters, and navigating multitudes of social media channels to bring your dream project to life. (This course is cross-listed with MPT 204, LA 204,… Read More

Into the Industry

Develop the professional collateral needed to enter the entertainment industry. Create a professional website, resume, demo reel, and a personal pitch. Create and package a project to market to the industry upon graduation. (This course is cross-listed with ACT 710 and MPT 810.)

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