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Program Overview
The Intermediate Diploma Film and Television Production is designed for aspiring and early career professional filmmakers, creative artists, technicians and specialists in post-production disciplines, wishing to enhance practical production techniques in cinema courses.
The diploma students will take the same courses and be in the same classes with the BA degree students and will be evaluated using the same factors including completed assignments and projects, attendance, participation in classes and collaboration with classmates.
During your study, you will be immersed in the full filmmaking process - from the first spark of an idea in pre-production, through the creative intensity of production, to the final polish in post-production.
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Learning Objectives
- Develop creative and technical production skills through progressive, practice-based learning experiences.
- Prepare graduates to work ethically, responsibly, and collaboratively within professional film and television production environments.
- Build foundational and specialized filmmaking knowledge
- Develop practical directing and cinematography skills
- Instill professionalism and collaborative working practices
- Ensure readiness for roles in the film and television industry
Assessment Methods
- Coursework exercises, assignments, projects, in-class participation and collaboration, work quality, and exams.
What to Expect
- You will work through every stage of the filmmaking process while building technical expertise and creative confidence.
- Camera operations, technical and creative storytelling
- Production skills (film and sound editing, research, management, leadership, working collaboratively with classmates to successfully meet projects' objectives)
- Script and scene work (script breakdowns, director roles)
- Management (roles & responsibilities, production paperwork, software tools)
Admission Criteria
- Creative Video Submission (Required): Applicants must submit a filmed scene or short film with a maximum duration of five (5) minutes, demonstrating their creative and storytelling abilities.
The BA and Intermediate Diploma Applicants must submit a document with links to a short film (3-5 minutes) to help the evaluation committee better understand your artistic potential. This can be a film that you made previously in high school, or last year with friends or any time in the last year. Or you can make a special film just for this application. Once you decide what film we should see, upload it to YouTube and make it unlisted.
Then send us the link for:
- Your Unlisted YouTube video.
- A Word or PDF document with the link embedded.
Make sure it is clear what you did on these projects.
If you were the director? Make sure the committee understands that.
If you wrote it? Then great. Make it known.
If you ran the camera? Then tell us about that.
- Creative Portfolio (Optional): The portfolio is a great indicator of artistic talent, technical skill, and creative potential for this practice-based degree. If you wish to submit the optional Portfolio, follow the instructions below:
BA and Intermediate DiplomaApplicants may submit a PDF with links to a portfolio of creative work (e.g., scripts, storyboards, photography, visual art, or other works) to help the evaluation committee better understand your artistic potential.
The links should take us to:
- Unlisted YouTube videos.
- Word or PDF scripts for films.
- PowerPoints or Canva presentations.
- JPEG formatted Photos.
Make sure it is clear what you did on these projects.
If you were the director? Make sure the committee understands that.
If you wrote it? Then great. Make it known.
The portfolio is not a substitution to making a film for submission. It is an additional document submitted to accompany your film and application
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.
Career Path After the Program
Career opportunities include, but are not limited to:
- Line producer or location manager
- Camera Operator or Camera Assistant
- Assistant Editor or Post-Production Assistant
- Art Department Assistant or Set Design Assistant
- Boom Operator or Sound Assistant
- Script Assistant, Writers' Room Assistant, or Script Analyst
- Production Assistant for Documentary, Digital Media, or Online Content
- Assistant for Commercial or Advertising Productions
Study Plan
| Course Name | Description | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction to World Art and Visual Culture | This course introduces global art and visual culture from antiquity to the present, building visual literacy and critical thinking through art historical analysis and comparative study. | 2 |
| Arabic Communication and Creative Expression | This course develops written and spoken Arabic for professional and creative contexts, with a focus on narrative, critical writing, and stylistic precision. | 2 |
| Cinema: The Art of Moving Image | In this course, the students learn basic theory and application of the concepts for time, space, composition, movement, light and color in motion picture production. | 4 |
| World Cinema History | This course presents historical survey of global cinema from its beginnings. | 2 |
| Introduction to Story | This course presents fundamentals elements of scene writing, story structure, and character development. | 2 |
| Total Credit Hours | 12 |
| Course Name | Description | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction to Saudi Culture and Creative Industries or Introduction to Saudi Heritage | These two courses introduce Saudi culture and heritage as a foundation for understanding cultural identity and the creative industries, and their links to the arts, design, and the creative economy. | 2 |
| Foundations of Business and Entrepreneurship | This course introduces the fundamentals of business, entrepreneurship, management, and marketing through examples from the arts and cultural sectors. | 2 |
| Script Analysis | This course presents critical analysis of story structure from classic films to contemporary works. Identification of key story concepts and elements of three-act structure. | 2 |
| Introduction to Directing | A course that brings to students an overview of the concerns, functions and responsibilities of the director including casting, producing and directing an individual project. | 2 |
| Introduction to Cinematography | A course that let the students craft of cinematography for digital media; includes lectures, on-set video production exercises, and scene studies. | 4 |
| Total Credit Hours | 12 |