Duration
20 Weeks
Price
$750
Hours
450
Program Description
The Certificate program is a concentrated exploration into the processes of filmmaking conducted over two 10-week terms. Students learn to write, direct, shoot and edit a group short film/video project and an individual short film/video project. There are four main concentrations of studies: Screenwriting, Pre-Production, Production, and Editing. Students attend class 4 days or evenings a week with an additional 8% hour on-campus lab period per week.
Program Objectives
The educational objective of the Certificate Program in Filmmaking is to train people for entry-level work in the film and video industry as camera operators, videographers, grips, screenwriters, production assistants, assistant editors, lighting assistants, assistant directors, dolly grips, video editors, lighting technicians, director’s assistants, and audio recorders.
Students will learn to:
- Understand the fundamental principles of storytelling
- Write and edit screenplays for short films
- Set up and operate professional-level cameras and lenses
- Set up a range of lighting equipment
- Produce and direct a short film
- Supervise production crew and actors
- Light indoor and outdoor scenes and compose shots to effectively communicate a script’s message or theme
- Work with camera support and movement systems, such as tripods, dollies, jibs, cranes and others
- Record and mix sound
- Organize and edit raw video and sound footage to reflect the story detailed in a script
- Incorporate video and sound effects into edited material
- Add text and graphics to a film and video presentation
- Communicate and work effectively with other film crewmembers
- Plan and coordinate the crew and production components necessary to produce a short film
- Distribute a completed film through a variety of platforms
- Follow professional etiquette to facilitate successful and effective overall crew performance
Clock Hours - 450 Hours
280 hours of the program are lecture hours consisting of theory or new principles. The remaining 170 hours are on-campus laboratory hours consisting of supervised student practice of a previously introduced theory/principle during which practical skills and knowledge are developed and reinforced.
Weeks
20
Term 1
- Lecture hours -21 hours
- Lab hours – 12.5 hours
- Total hours -33.5 hours
- Lecture hours -14 hours
- Lab hours – 8.5 hours
- Total hours -22.5 hours
- Lecture hours -14 hours
- Lab hours – 8.5 hours
- Total hours -22.5 hours
- Lecture hours -24.5 hours
- Lab hours – 15 hours
- Total hours -39.5 hours
- Lecture hours -14 hours
- Lab hours – 8.5 hours
- Total hours -22.5 hours
- Lecture hours -28 hours
- Lab hours – 17 hours
- Total hours -45 hours
Term 2
- Lecture hours -21 hours
- Lab hours – 12.5 hours
- Total hours -33.5 hours
- Lecture hours -14 hours
- Lab hours – 8.5 hours
- Total hours -22.5 hours
- Lecture hours -14 hours
- Lab hours – 8.5 hours
- Total hours -22.5 hours
- Lecture hours -21 hours
- Lab hours – 12.5 hours
- Total hours -33.5 hours
- Lecture hours -14 hours
- Lab hours – 8.5 hours
- Total hours -22.5 hours
- Lecture hours -21 hours
- Lab hours – 12.5 hours
- Total hours -33.5 hours
- Lecture hours -28 hours
- Lab hours – 17 hours
- Total hours -45 hours
- Lecture hours -7 hours
- Lab hours – 5 hours
- Total hours -12 hours