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• Prerequisite: FILM 31.
• Corequisite: FILM 32L.

This course focuses on intermediate techniques of digital filmmaking and theoretical and critical rubrics, allowing the student to gain proficiency in producing, directing, cinematography, production design, sound recording, grip/electric, and editing. Students learn the roles and responsibilities of various facets of the filmmaking process during pre-production, production and post-production. Working with previously produced scenes written by industry professionals, students learn skills that include the visualization of the screenplay, script breakdown, preparation of shot lists, direction of actors, and the staging of action for the camera.

• Corequisite: FILM 32.

This course focuses on intermediate techniques of digital filmmaking and theoretical and critical rubrics, allowing the student to gain proficiency in producing, directing, cinematography, production design, sound recording, grip/electric, and editing. Students learn the roles and responsibilities of various facets of the filmmaking process during pre-production, production and post-production. Working with previously produced scenes written by industry professionals, students learn skills that include the visualization of the screenplay, script breakdown, preparation of shot lists, direction of actors, and the staging of action for the camera.

• Prerequisite: FILM 32.
• Corequisite: FILM 33L.

In this course, students go through the process of making a short narrative film together, emulating a professional working environment. Supervised by their instructor, students develop, pre-produce, rehearse, shoot, and edit scenes from an original screenplay that is filmed in its entirety in the lab component course (Film 33L) at the end of the semester.

• Corequisite: FILM 33.

In this course students will collectively develop and shoot one narrative short film throughout the semester. This course is the laboratory component for Film 33 and will parallel the lecture topics of that course.

• Prerequisite: FILM 32.
• Corequisite: FILM 34L.

This course focuses on advanced techniques of digital filmmaking and theoretical and critical rubrics, allowing the student to gain increased proficiency in producing, directing, cinematography, production design, sound recording, grip/electric, and editing, while at the same time producing original content. Students hone their skills in various facets of the filmmaking process during pre-production, production and post-production. Working with original content that has not yet been produced and/or material written by themselves, students advance their skills in the visualization of the screenplay, script breakdown, preparation of shot lists, working with actors, and the staging of action for the camera.

• Corequisite: FILM 34.

This is the laboratory component of Film 34. The laboratory projects will parallel the advanced filmmaking lecture topics taught in Film 34. The lab projects will foster advanced skills in producing, directing, cinematography, production design, sound recording, grip/electric, and editing. Students will produce elaborate and well-crafted original content based on narrative film scenes written by themselves or derived from scripts that have not yet been produced. These advanced projects will be filmed in their entirety in class, working in collaboration with all the students enrolled in the course.

In this hands-on course, students will delve into the art and craft of cinematography: the methods and techniques by which motion picture photography and lighting help give a film meaning and aesthetic purpose. Through lectures, demonstrations and exercises in a supervised classroom environment, students will learn to operate state-of-the-art digital and electronic equipment while applying the fundamental principles of lighting, composition, exposure, focus, lens selection, and camera dynamics into purposeful visual storytelling.

• Prerequisite: FILM 40.

Advanced study of the principles of Cinematography, which includes the technical and aesthetic discussion of film and digital cameras and their corresponding workflows. Film genres, lighting (light and shadows), composition, camera movement, and lens selection (Spherical & Anamorphic) are also discussed. The analysis of Cinematic Film format aspect ratios, their history and most common uses today, and a brief study of art history and painting. The interpretation of the meaning of color-related and applied to art direction, wardrobe, and production design, while carrying the process through color grading and color correction of the visual image (footage) to the ultimate presentation of the actual finished film.

Formerly CINEMA 5.

This course examines cinema as a reflection of and influence on American society. Films are situated within the political, cultural, and economic contexts of their times, and are analyzed as records of the industrial practices, thematic trends, and social attitudes of the past that help to shape the present.

This course provides a practical in-depth study of the fundamental aspects of recording and mixing production sound for film and television. Subjects include: introduction to production sound equipment, location sound recording and mixing techniques, on-set sound assessment and troubleshooting, digital audio workstation basics, along with dialogue and ADR (automated dialogue replacement) recording and editing.

Formerly CINEMA 8.

This course examines the construction and representation of gender and sexuality in cinema both in the U.S. and internationally, including majority as well minority groups. Students will analyze films to understand how the concepts of gender and sexuality have been imagined, complicated, and challenged cinematically. Issues of access—who does and does not get to produce, distribute, and exhibit cinema—will also be examined. While gender and sexuality are in the foreground, issues like age, race, ethnicity, nationality, and ableism will also be considered.

Satisfies Global Citizenship

Formerly CINEMA 7.

This course examines the construction and representation of race and ethnicity in cinema, both in the U.S. and internationally, including majority as well as minority groups. Students will analyze films to understand how the concepts of race and ethnicity have been imagined, complicated, and challenged cinematically. Issues of access—who does and does not get to produce, distribute, and exhibit cinema—will also be examined. While race and ethnicity are in the foreground, issues like nationality, gender, sexuality, age, and ableism will also be considered.

Formerly CINEMA 2.

This course introduces students to the concept of genre — or ‘category’ — in cinema, exploring the economic, aesthetic, and cultural reasons for genre film making. Typically, it will focus on one genre and its development over time — like Romantic Comedy, Horror, or the Western — and why some genres endure while others fade away. The genre under examination may change each semester.

Please see “Independent Studies” section.

Please see “Independent Studies” section.

Please see “Independent Studies” section.

• Advisory: FILM 2.

Formerly CINEMA 4.

This course examines the artistic, cultural, and economic contributions of a screenwriter, director, producer, star, or studio. By exploring their various works, we can understand the development of their style, their ideological or social concerns, as well as their standing in the film industry and beyond. Specific film artists will vary from semester to semester.

Please see “Internships” section.

Please see “Internships” section.

Satisfies Global Citizenship

This course introduces the students to basic vocabulary and fundamental sentence structures in the present and past. Pronunciation, grammar and everyday vocabulary are stressed as indispensable tools for comprehension and expression. French customs, culture and everyday life are also highlighted. The course is taught in French except in cases of linguistic difficulty as determined by the professor.