Multi-Camera Studio Directing

Enrollment Requirements: Undergraduate Prerequisite: COMFT 353; Graduate Prerequisite: Graduate Standing This introductory course develops the foundational creative and technical skills required to direct multi-camera studio productions. Emphasizing control-room workflow, camera operation, framing, movement, blocking, studio lighting, shot selection, and real-time communication, students learn the production grammar that underpins effective multi-camera directing. Through repeated hands-on studio exercises, students build fluency with pedestal cameras, camera choreography, lighting systems, rehearsal, and live or live-to-tape execution. Rather than surveying many genres in depth, the course builds to students applying these fundamentals to a final production using an existing scripted sitcom scene supplied by the instructor. As part of the course, students may engage with professional multi-camera production environments through an organized field experience or observation opportunity. These experiences are intended to reinforce the core skills taught in class—control-room communication, camera coverage, blocking, lighting, rehearsal, and real-time decision-making—rather than introduce additional advanced directing formats.