Student Work and Behind the Scenes

Production III is our capstone production class.  Students take their developed scripts and pre production work from FVM 2029 Production III Preparation, and realize their production during the course of this class. Students polish the screenplay, finish casting, art direction, location scouting, shot listing, location surveys, planning for post, rehearsing, developing acting and directorial charts and realizing performances. Directing, Producing, Cinematography, Post, and Acting students collaborate on creating films and videos that showcase the highest quality of professional production and storytelling values in their finished project. Students complete an assembly edit, schedule and execute any pickups within the course.

The Professional Documentary Production class allows students to propose, research, write and shoot their own original documentary projects, or to engage in the work with non-profit clients in a professional documentary production program that can lead to federal scholarships upon the completion of 350 hours of work.

Students pitch scripts to class and instructor for selection as 16mm projects, then crew and produce them. Emphasis will be placed on student’s ability to tell a compelling story visually, including familiarity with the continuity style of the contemporary movie and a heightened awareness of composition and traditional three-dimensional design, while remaining open to and aware of more avant-garde and experimental forms and approaches.

Students pitch scripts to class and instructor for selection as 16mm projects, then crew and produce them. Emphasis will be placed on student’s ability to tell a compelling story visually, including familiarity with the continuity style of the contemporary movie and a heightened awareness of composition and traditional three-dimensional design, while remaining open to and aware of more avant-garde and experimental forms and approaches.

This introduction to visual storytelling provides students with the opportunity to identify the components and explore the expressive visual elements that compromise narrative motion pictures. Students work in groups and/or pairs structuring and shooting exercises and original projects to be edited in FVM 1060 (which must be taken concurrently). With an emphasis on creating emotional connections between character and audience, this course will help students learn techniques to create and illustrate effective and dimensional stories. Students will also learn the art of collaboration, which is necessary for film production.