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Understand the steps for creating your first successful short film, whether you are an aspiring director, writer, or producer. Learn the process, from pre-production all the way to post, followed by film screenings and more.
Find out how to translate your behind-the-camera film directorial skills to the world of TV, with insight into the landscape of cable and network television and the entire process of directing an episode.
Find out how to understand and utilize the nuances of sound design from production to post-production including equipment instructing, listening demonstrations, microphone characteristics, editing/mixing, and more.
Producers, development executives, directors, and writers gain practical experience adapting and developing their own stories for motion pictures, movies-of-the-week, and miniseries.
Learn the development process for short films with a focus on developing a short film treatment. At the end of the course you will have honed your idea and have a final short script or treatment ready for shooting.
Focus on story components that make for a good movie. Identify the various film genres and how style, form, content, mood, camera work, lighting, and pacing work together to deliver a satisfying cinematic experience.
Comprehensive overview of story analysis and the tools used by the professional reader. Throughout the course, you learn and practice coverage skills while gaining an understanding of the elements of story.
In this capstone course of the Directing Certificate Program, improve your filmmaking skills through the creation of a short film that is screened for an invited audience after the end of the course.
Understand how to produce a film from buying/development all the way to release/marketing, including each stage of development, their affect on the other stages, and how the producer is conducive of their interdependency.
Learn to recognize and apply the directorial skills for a successful artistic collaboration with performers. You will select one dramatic and one comic scene then cast, rehearse, and present the scenes in class.
This interactive course provides you with career strategies that help generate audition opportunities and skills that can increase your ability to book the job.
Explore basic concepts of the Meisner approach to acting with a focus on creating and living in imaginary circumstances.
Crisis on any scale is an inevitability in the world today. As a leader, learn how to prepare for crisis and build the skills you need to resolve and mitigate crisis situations impacting your organization or community.
New companies today need to be agile and flexible. This course provides a roadmap for developing, nurturing and achieving success through leading hot groups and working around traditional hierarchical structures.
This collaborative course examines what constitutes "effective" leadership across cultures, and prepares students for business assignments outside of their home countries.
This course provides a comprehensive understanding of the field of affordable housing development, including discussion of both family and senior affordable housing communities. Such questions as why…
No matter our level of professional experience, the most challenging stories we tell are often those about ourselves. Getting personal may help you get that job offer, but it can take a unique…
Continuing the Household Basics series, this course has an emphasis on Real Estate and the homebuying process. During this class we will learn how to prepare for homeownership, what the…
Osher (50+). In this course, we explore the paradigm shifts in television during the 1980s.
Osher (50+). In this course, we explore the Bloomsbury Group's literary and artistic work.
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