Digital Filmmaking

The newly installed digital filmmaking program provides students with a dynamic laboratory for producing new forms of narrative, documentary and expanded cinema applications. The curriculum is designed distinctively to instruct students in the use of new video technologies for fine art, experimental and documentary applications.

The program, while driven by a core understanding of conventional filmmaking theory and techniques, uses digital video to enable students to apply advanced motion-imaging technologies and integrate multiple media and disciplines into both conventional storytelling and new forms of cinematic expressions.

The digital filmmaking program includes workshops and elective courses on technical and theoretical subjects such as film history, film analysis and narrative structures, digital filmmaking toolbox, digital video production and editing, post-production and color correction, video art, visual anthropology and documentary, multi-channel installations, expanded cinema applications, interactive cinema and database narratives.

The fundamentals of producing a feature, set and crew management, research into new screen-based narrative forms, film's relationship to other arts and media and its role as an instrument of social expression are all part of a program that melds cinema and video art history and theory with hands-on filming and computer lab classes. This program is designed to prepare students to be strong visual artists as well as good media managers and communicators.