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3.00 Credits
The course provides an overview of film - its history as an art form and as a business, its technological development, and its special ability to tell stories visually.Students write a short screenplay and produce a short film as members of small film crews.Topics include producing, directing, and acting for the camera.This course, which fulfills a VPA core requirement in history, is required for students majoring in the film track of the New Media Film, Television and Radio program and is a prerequisite for all production courses in the major or minor.Formerly listed as FM 101.Three credits.
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These courses, offered periodically, focus in depth on a specific theme or issue, and may draw upon films from one or more countries, from among numerous directors, and from various periods in film history from the dawn of cinema to the present.Special applied courses may also be offered in this category.This course fulfills a VPA core requirement in history or application.Three credits.
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This course blends group and individual instruction with intensive writing workshops.Students develop and then write a screenplay for a 30-minute film, or the first 30 pages of a feature-length film from their own original idea.Character development and narrative structure are emphasized.Students learn the elements of dramatic storytelling for film; creating characters, scenes and dialogue; and script analysis.This is a required course in the film and television tracks for the New Media Film, Television, and Radio major, and an applied course for the VPA core requirement.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to follow FM 11 Art and Language of Film, and is a required course for film majors.As an application course, it focuses in depth on the three stages of filmmaking - preproduction, production, and post-production.Students learn how to use camera and editing equipment to tell a visual story, while learning the production details of filmmaking.Several small projects lead up to production of a short film.The course fulfills an application requirement in the VPA core.(Prerequisite for film majors: FM 11) Three credits.
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This course introduces the theory and basics and aesthetics of digital editing, using Final Cut Pro and Avid digital-editing systems.Participants study the characteristics of nonlinear systems and learn how these systems are used to create effective and affective visual and audio programs.This is a required production course for the film and television tracks of the New Media Film, Television and Radio major.The course fulfills an application requirement in the VPA core.Three credits.
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This course explores what a film or television director does, how he/she manipulates and manages the divergent elements of cinema into a coherent whole, and often, into a unique and personal vision.The specific tasks of a director are studied from practical and theoretical perspectives.This is a required course for the film track of the New Media Film, Television, and Radio major.This course fulfills a VPA core requirement in history.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
A genre is a category or film characterized by a recognizable set of conventions, which may include settings, stock characters, narrative patterns, stylistic devices, historical contexts, and themes.Genres work off of filmmakers' and audience' shared expectations.Over time, these conventions develop and evolve.Genres offered have included: the western, the horror film, science fiction, independent film, classic comedy, and film noir.This course fulfills a VPA core requirement in history.Three credits.
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In this advanced motion picture production course, students have access to advanced camera, lighting, audio, and editing equipment, and work in teams to produce more complex films.The course fulfills an application requirement in the VPA core.(Prerequisite: FM 130) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
Usually open only to students majoring or minoring in film, this course allows a student to pursue in depth a topic or project in film history/theory or production, in close consultation with a faculty member of the New Media Film, Television and Radio Program.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
In consultation with a faculty member, upper-level major and minor students arrange a semester-long internship with one of many film production companies located within Connecticut and the New York metropolitan area.The course combines on-site supervision and meetings with faculty advisors with weekly journal submissions and an assigned paper at the end of the internship.This is an elective applied course in the film track of the New Media Film, Television and Radio program.Three credits.
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