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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Prerequisite: grade of C- or better in DFM 215 or permission of instructor; lab fee charged.) Continuing practical experience in narrative filmmaking production. Focuses on the planning, pre-production, production and post-production of narrative filmmaking with emphasis on the separate roles of the director, producer, and cinematographer. Students are involved in producing programming to air on cable access. Offered fall semester only.
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Prerequisites: DFM 260 and DFM 211 or permission from instructor.) Advanced course in developing and writing documentaries and other news programs. Principles and practice in research, treatment, proposal, and pitch presentations. Along with learning research and interviewing skills, students will learn how to take a variety of media and primary sources and create a story. We will explore research methods for historical and current topics. Offered fall semester only.
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Prerequisites: DFM187 or 190 or permission from instructor.) This course examines how documentary and narrative filmmaking can affect social change. We will examine the effects of cinema on social movements in the United States and worldwide. We will ask whether media can, in fact, change society at all, whether those changes are controllable by the artist/producer, the audience or the state. We will ask whether these changes can backfire or produce unexpected results.
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Prerequisites: DFM 187 or 188 or 190 or permission from instructor.) This course will trace the major trends and movements that have emerged from various national cinemas and contributed to the historical development of film as an international art form. We will view selected films and consider how they reflect their own cultural and historical context and reflect global creative confluences. Along with studying international film in our class and our textbook, students will research a national cinema and industry, presenting their findings to the class and in a final research project. Offered in spring semester only.
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) Topics may include such areas as the art of film, experimental film, film genre studies, career studies of famous women directors, and pre-code women in film. Each topic will be women-centered.
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Prerequisite: must be a DFM major with junior standing.) A study of the business of film including film financing, business strategies, audience analysis, distribution strategies, preparing a business plan. Offered in fall semester only.
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Prerequisite: 3rd year theater students and film students who have taken Directing; or permission of instructor.) Acting on Camera will teach actors basic techniques and vocabulary of film acting and give them an opportunity to learn how to shape a performance on film. For film students, directors will learn how to effectively work with actors to create a vivid performance. By the course's end, the actors will have assembled a reel of material, directed by both faculty and film students.
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6.00 Credits
(6 hrs., 3 hrs. each semester) (Prerequisite: finished all DFM required courses except for Business of Film and Senior Portfolio) This extensive, full school-year production course constitutes the capstone courses in this major and requires completion of a short narrative or a documentary film. Students will write, produce, and direct their film in the fall and do post-production in the spring semester. Finished films will be exhibited at the end of the semester.
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) (Prerequisite: Senior standing; lab fee charged.) Emphasis on finished work of original films for the student's final portfolio, which includes a résumé, a DVD of student work, and a press kit for the senior film project. This class is not only about putting together final work, but will also discuss outreach plans, screenings, marketing, film festival research and submitting to film festivals. Students will learn how to author DVDs, create promotional materials, organize screenings, research career opportunities, and discuss film distribution strategies. Offered in spring semester only.
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3.00 Credits
(3 hrs.) Visiting industry professionals will become an Artist in Residence for a semester and teach in different areas of filmmaking.
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