BA Film and Television Production
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Program Overview
The BA Film and Television Production will introduce and train aspiring young filmmakers in the broad spectrum of the cinematic arts through practical hands-on instruction by experienced instructors and professional filmmakers.
This program will take students through more than 25 cinema courses in directing, producing, writing and post-production, and set in a world class educational environment in small classes to ensure personalized instruction.
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Learning Objectives
- Build foundational and specialized filmmaking knowledge in several disciplines that will directly impact your opportunities for professional work
- Develop practical directing, production, post-production, collaboration and leadership skills with your student teams, faculty and outside potential employers
- Ensure readiness for roles in the film and television industries, and the new and expanding technologies and AI
- Foster students' ability to analyze, evaluate, and reflect on creative and technical decisions in audiovisual production.
- Prepare graduates to work ethically, responsibly, and collaboratively within professional film and television production environments.
- Develop students' creative and technical production skills through progressive, practice-based learning experiences.
Assessment Methods
- Coursework exercises, assignments, projects, in-class participation and collaboration, work quality, and exams
- Successful completion of Graduation Film Project and internship to earn BA degree
Admission Criteria
- Creative Video Submission (Required): Applicants must submit a filmed scene or short film with a maximum duration of three (3) minutes, demonstrating their creative and storytelling abilities.
- Creative Portfolio (Optional): Applicants may submit a PDF portfolio showcasing previous creative work (e.g., scripts, storyboards, photography, visual art, or other relevant projects) to further demonstrate their artistic potential.
Admission requirements, program structures, and program-specific requirements are subject to review and may be updated or changed at any time without prior notice. Applicants are advised to visit the program page at the time of admission for the most current information.
What to Expect
- You will work through every stage of the filmmaking process while building creative and technical expertise, collaboration skills with classmates
- Creative and technical directing, producing, Camera and post-production skills in effective storytelling projects
- Production skills (film and sound editing, research, management, leadership, working collaboratively with classmates to successfully meet projects' objectives)
- Script and scene work (script breakdowns, writing and rewriting, directing actors)
- Management (roles & responsibilities, production paperwork, software tools)
- Plan film and television projects from concept through pre-production, production post-production, and completion, applying appropriate learned creative and organizational methods.
Career Path After the Program
Career opportunities include, but are not limited to:
- Director, Assistant Director, or Second Unit Director
- Producer, Associate Producer, or Production Manager
- Screenwriter, Script Editor, or Story Developer
- Cinematographer, Director of Photography, Camera Operator, or Camera Assistant
- Film Editor, Assistant Editor, or Post-Production Editor
- Production Designer, Art Director, or Set Designer
- Sound Designer, Production Sound Mixer, or Boom Operator
- Documentary Filmmaker, Content Creator, or Digital Media Producer
- Commercial Director or Advertising Content Producer