This course offers a comprehensive introduction to the aesthetic, technical, and theoretical foundations of motion-picture production. Through hands-on projects, in-class workshops, and critical analysis, you’ll work (and play) individually and collaboratively to build essential filmmaking skills and better understand how meaning is made through cinematic language. Emphasizing both the practical and imaginative aspects of production, the course’s screenings, readings, and class discussions will hone media literacy and highlight the diversity of practices shaping today’s moving image culture, including narrative, documentary, experimental, installation, and internet-based formats. This is the place to get some good practice with digital cinematography, sound recording and design, and nonlinear editing — not as ends in themselves, but as tools for shaping perception and crafting time-based media experiences. Come ready with a strong creative drive and a willingness to rigorously engage with the nuts and bolts, as well as your own individual spirit, of cinematic expression. You’ll come away from the course with a growing portfolio of your own work, a solid foundation for continued exploration of film and media arts, and a new way of seeing and understanding cinema not just as entertainment, but as a true artform and cultural force.

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