Advanced Group Production II

Catalog description

Continuation of advanced production course emphasizing intensive collaborative film-video production from script through post-production. COMM 449 Advanced Film and Video Projects (3) This course is the second half of a two-semester production course designed to enable students to produce portfolio-quality work in any production mode and to bring together ideas, processes, practices, and theories in the service of this production. Students from the fall semester will complete production and engage in intensive post-production in order to have a high-quality finished project to submit to film festivals by the end of the semester. Utilizing a workshop structure, class time will be focused on discussion and analysis of the challenges faced by individual productions as well as providing the support, guidance, and critique necessary for a successfully completed project. Students will continue in the same production role (producer, director, cinematographer, sound designer, editor) from the fall semester, learning new skills for their role in the post-production phase. Students will be assigned individual exercises specific to their production role in addition to the collaborative work of the project's production. It is expected that all production group members will continue into the spring as well.