41 courses with the subject FTP, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
FTP 110Introduction to Screenwriting3
Develop a working construct for screenwriting and filmmaking, as well as the critical aspects of theme, character, plot, and formatting for the screenplay. Emphasis is placed on telling a story in terms of action and the reality of characters. The difference between the literary and visual medium is explored through individual writing projects and group analysis.
This course focuses on a range of specific visual aesthetics and how to capture those aesthetics through camera exposure, lenses, framing, movement, and simple lighting techniques.
Admission to the Film and Television BFA, or Stage and Screen BA, or permission of instructor. Credits: 3
FTP 220Television Production3
This course will entail the creation of our annual web series production. Students will produce five episodes of a multi-part web series, written in FTP 330/331: Writing the Series I/II. Students will develop storyboards, visual designs, schedules, shot lists, work with directors, and edit each episode. Along the way, students will engage in critical evaluation of material, take roles as key crew members, and implement the workflow process from concept to delivery. Each student will be assigned a production role by the professor for the entirety of the production.
In this course, students will learn the basic production and software proficiencies required to generate an essential selection of industry-quality video effects (VFX).
Students learn a range of genre-specific lighting techniques including lighting for on-location interiors and exteriors, studio lighting, and lighting cues.
Introduction to Directing provides an overview of single-camera narrative film directing. The course covers each stage of the directing process, including pre-visualization, script analysis, cinematic language, and actor coaching and blocking.
This course is designed to teach students how to write compelling short screenplays for production and festival play through the advanced implementation of three-dimensional characters, multiple short-form structures, various forms of tension, nuanced dialog, exposition as action, and visual writing techniques.
Focus on the rigors and discipline of pitching, outlining, and writing for a dramatic episodic television series through the study of two series currently on television.
This is a course designed to teach students how to develop and pitch a dramatic pilot intended for launch as an episodic series. Students will learn the various networks and platforms available to produce original television content and what each platform looks for in developing original content for long-term broadcast or streaming.
This is a course designed to teach students the rigors, discipline, and fulfillment of creating a dramatic pilot intended to launch an episodic series.
In this course, students will learn how to construct a feature film screenplay from outline, character design, and plot structure pre-writing through the execution of the first half of a properly formatted feature screenplay.
In this course, students will learn how to construct a feature film screenplay from writing and rewriting scenes and sequences through the execution of the second half of a properly formatted feature screenplay.
Assistant Directing is designed to allow FTP students to build their skill set as an Assistant Director. Through this course, each student will learn how to effectively run a set; support the on-set and pre-production creative process; build a schedule that enables each crew/cast member to thrive; ensure safety, care, and well-being for each crew member; and navigate the complicated pre-production process.
In this course, taken every Fall semester by students in the Film and Television Production program, students will cultivate and refine their artistic voice through brand development, engagement with cinephile culture, and creative projects.
Admission to the Film and Television Production BFA, or Stage and Screen BA, or permission of instructor. Credits: 2, R10
FTP 387Film Practicum II2
Cultivate and refine the artistic voice through engagement with cinephile culture, creative projects, and brand development. Film Practicum II has a unique emphasis on episodic, serial, and anthology content.
Admission to Film and Television Production BFA, or Stage and Screen BA, or permission of instructor. Credits: 2, R10
FTP 388Production I3
In this course, each third-year student joins one of several senior projects as a department head, in order to craft a festival-caliber short motion picture.
This course will build upon the fundamentals of film producing covered in FTP 165, and move into topics like project development, business creation, budgeting, and seeing a project through to completion. Students will operate as producers on in-progress theses films and be responsible to complete weekly tasks in order to design and execute an effective production process. Professional scheduling and budgeting software will be utilized in a lab setting.
Techniques of digital cinematography. Course will explore the study and usage of High-Definition cameras, camera operation, camera systems, and set operations.
Students will learn the theory and execute the production processes required to produce a festival-quality documentary film. This course is linked to Directing the Documentary II, where students will complete the films they begin in this course.
Students will refine their understanding and application of the theory and craft required to produce a festival-quality documentary film through the completion of films began in FTP 460.
In this course, fourth-year students organize into small above-the-line teams and work with third-year students to produce a festival-quality short motion picture.
