Duration
20 Weeks
Price
$750
Hours
450
Program Description
Over the course of four 10-week terms, the Diploma program provides students with the widest range of filmmaking experiences at IAFT. Students learn to write, direct, shoot and edit several group and individual short film/video projects. 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. The maximum number of students-to-teacher ratio in a classroom or lab session is 12:1.
Program Objectives
The educational objective of the Diploma 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 principles of storytelling to an advanced level
- Further write and edit screenplays for short films
- Set up and operate professional-level cameras and lenses in a wider range of settings
- Set up a greater variety of lighting equipment in multiple locations
- Continue to produce and direct short films and a final thesis project
- Supervise a greater variety of production crews and actors
- Scout a wide range of locations appropriate to the script and production budgets
- Consider and plan for production design needs at a professional level
- Light a wide variety of indoor and outdoor scenes and compose shots to effectively communicate a
- script’s message or theme
- Work with a greater variety of camera support and movement systems, such as tripods, dollies, jibs,
- cranes and others
- Record and mix sound at an advanced level
- Further organize and edit raw video and sound footage to reflect the story detailed in a script
- Incorporate a wide range of video and sound effects into edited material
- Learn specialized software to add text and graphics to film and video presentations
- Communicate and work effectively with a wider variety of other film crewmembers
- Gain further experience planning and coordinating crews and production components necessary to
- produce short films
- Produce non-fiction and unscripted short films
- Distribute completed films through a wider variety of platforms
- Gain further experience following professional etiquette to facilitate successful and effective overall crew
- performance
- Prepare an effective demo reel and resume
- Build a network of professional contacts for future employment opportunities
Clock Hours - 900 Hours
560 hours of the program are lecture hours consisting of theory or new principles. The remaining 340 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
40
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
- Lecture hours -14 hours
- Lab hours – 8.5 hours
- Total hours -22.5 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 -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 -7 hours
- Lab hours – 5 hours
- Total hours -12 hours
Term 3
- Lecture hours -21 hours
- Lab hours – 12.5 hours
- Total hours -33.5 hours
- Lecture hours -17.5 hours
- Lab hours – 10.5 hours
- Total hours -28 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 -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 -17.5 hours
- Lab hours – 10.5 hours
- Total hours -28 hours
- Lecture hours -7 hours
- Lab hours – 5 hours
- Total hours -12 hours
Term 4
- Lecture hours -28 hours
- Lab hours – 17 hours
- Total hours -45 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 -42 hours
- Lab hours – 22.5 hours
- Total hours -67.5 hours
- Lecture hours -14 hours
- Lab hours – 8.5 hours
- Total hours -22.5 hours