Producing Film and Video

Catalog description

Producing Film and Video (3) This course concentrates on various roles of the producer in fiction films and television (primarily). Students learn about the life cycle of a film from research and development to preproduction, production, postproduction, and distribution and festivals. This includes intellectual property/copyright, the development of a proposal, fundraising, marketing and distribution; practical work on scheduling, budgets and other production management topics such as unions and guilds, hiring a crew, releases, and music rights. Crosslist: COMM-413. Prerequisite: COMM-631 or COMM-682.