Narrative Productions

4 Credits.

This course is designed to immerse students in the creative, technical, and logistical challenges of narrative film production. The journey will yield a greater understanding of the professional structure of a film crew, as well as the collaborative creativity and intentionality necessary to make a narrative short film. Students will be divided into teams, each of which will produce, shoot, and edit a short narrative film based upon a 5 to 10-page screenplay written by a fellow student (and completed by the time the course begins). Students will fill all principal crew roles—director, cinematographer, producer, editor, location sound mixer, etc. Instructors will serve a guiding role throughout all phases of student projects, sharing practical strategies and technical expertise relating to the creative, collaborative nature of the filmmaking process. Instructors will also expose students to several working film professionals in order to further illuminate the key creative roles and dynamics inherent to narrative filmmaking.