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This advanced course in experimental filmmaking will challenge students to research and create forward-thinking film art-short films, video sculptures, expanded cinema-that consider emotional, intellectual, physical, and technological experiences as both maker and viewer.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:, FLM 288 OR DMA 345
Narrative Filmmaking is a dynamic two-course sequence implementing the phases of production. This first course is a concentrated period of pre-production beginning with research as students examine the core elements of cinema – light, space, and time – through screenings, readings, practical exercises, discussions, and critical writing. This will provide a base for concept development, creative writing, and production design, culminating in a professional treatment, screenplay, and pitch deck with a plan to produce in the subsequent semester.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: FLM 201, FLM 211, FLM 225 or DMA 312
This advanced film production course picks up where Narrative Filmmaking I left off. It allows students to focus their energies on the production of a short of their own design, while continuing to develop their technical skillset. The class is a functioning small production studio, with students crewing for each other in a range of roles, participating in location scouting, casting calls, the post-production pipeline, and regular critiques. The entire production process and the business of film will be addressed.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: FLM 325 OR DMA 325
This course introduces students to the necessary vocabulary and tools to analyze and appreciate the art of filmmaking. Through weekly screenings, readings, discussions, and hands-on camera exercises, students develop critical skills and language related to the production and comprehension of contemporary filmmaking, including production roles, terminology, techniques, and an introduction to history and theory. This course meets twice a week, structured as lecture and studio days.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
This pre-thesis course functions as a think tank toward Film Thesis projects with ideation, story, and screenwriting sessions; self-directed studio days to hone skills and explore technical and aesthetic interests; and professional development workshops focused on demo reel construction, resume writing, and presentation skills.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: FLM 278 or DMA 342, FLM 288 or DMA 345, FLM 325 or DMA 325
This course focuses on the fundamentals of visual storytelling by engaging students in a series of individual and collaborative exercises designed to develop an understanding of the camera, lenses, and lights, non-linear editing techniques, and a basic understanding of sound in relation to image. Students make three short films exploring fiction, non-fiction and experimental forms. Selected film and video works are analyzed throughout the semester with the aim of a critical awareness of theory and practice.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:, FLM 103
This course affords students the time and space to undertake major independently initiated film projects, series, and/or other moving image works. Students may propose narrative, documentary and/or experimental projects with the goal of producing them over the course of two semesters alongside their peers, capitalizing on their pooled skill sets and goals.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: FLM 364 OR DMA 333
This course emphasizes the use of light and sound in film-style video production. Students master the tools involved in location sound recording and studio lighting. The thematic thrust of this course involves the examination, discussion and cinematic uses of light and sound as they relate to visual storytelling.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: FLM 106
This course is for Film majors in their final semester. It affords students the time and space to complete major independently initiated film projects, and/or other moving image works, or series. Students will continue the production of narrative, documentary and/or experimental projects with the goal of completing them by the end of this semester working alongside their peers, capitalizing on their pooled skillsets and goals.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: FLM 403
This course introduces students to the creative and technical processes of 2D digital animation related to live action filmmaking-title design, motion graphics, color correction, masking, keying and basic compositing for visual effects. Students will also learn best practices for asset creation, file management and rendering.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: FLM 106