CINEMA PRODUCTION CLASSES AT ITHACA COLLEGE
Students, please find the course title of your class to find links to production documents or other items that I may have put here for your use. Current courses for SUMMER and FALL 2007 are on the top in the green boxes. Regular courses that I am not teaching this term are below the current courses in the yellow boxes.
CROSS-CULTURAL DOCUMENTARY RESEARCH AND PRODUCTION IN SOUTH KOREA
A production and research class that explores a wide variety of styles and approaches to the documentary production, creating knowledge base students can draw on in the production of a short documentary on a topic of their choice through cross-cultural experience.
CNPH 33005: SPECIAL TOPICS - MUSIC VIDEO/FILM PRODUCTION
Exploration of a specific area of cinema production, designed to enhance and enrich the traditional production curriculum and provide significant professional training for an ever-changing discipline. Subjects will likely include, but are not limited to: cinematography, sound design, advanced editing, alternative special effects, and directing for the screen. Topics will vary to reflect current and future trends in cinema production, as well as student demand and on faculty expertise.
CNPH 42000: THESIS CINEMA PRODUCTION
Individual experience preparatory to graduate study and careers in cinema production. This course is designed to bring together ideas, processes, practices, and theories in the service of the production of a substantial work of cinema. Students will pursue an entire project from conception to completion, combining intensive preproduction, production, and post-production with in-depth instruction on lab work, distribution, and exhibi-tion. Throughout the course, emphasis is placed on instructor, peer, and self-critique. In addition to completion of the final production, students are expected to generate an essay that situates their work within the history of the medium and contextualizes its relationship to current intel-lectual and creative debates.
CNPH 33004: SPECIAL TOPICS - PRE-PRODUCTION
This course is designed for intensive pre-production and development of significant media arts projects. Though the course is open to anyone, it is primarily intended for students preparing for their senior thesis project in cinema. Topics include: collaborative script development for production, advanced budgeting and scheduling, organizational dynamics and team development, technology research, rights management, festival campaign planning and strategic marketing, for-profit and non-profit fundraising, and legal considerations for production companies. 4 credits.
CNPH 45000: CINEMA PRODUCTION PRACTICUM
Capstone-level motion picture production course in which students undertake the primary creative and professional roles in a significant project under the direct supervision of a faculty specialist. The nature of the project will vary with each offering. 4 credits.
Visit www.creationline.org/celebrasian for more about the spring 2007 Practicum project.
CNPH 33001: SPECIAL TOPICS - CINEMATOGRAPHY
Exploration of a specific area of cinema production, designed to enhance and enrich the traditional production curriculum and provide significant professional training for an ever-changing discipline. Subjects will likely include, but are not limited to: cinematography, sound design, advanced editing, alternative special effects, and directing for the screen. Topics will vary to reflect current and future trends in cinema production, as well as student demand and on faculty expertise.
CNPH 32100: ADVANCED CINEMA PRODUCTION - FICTION
This intensive, advanced level course examines cinema as a form of storytelling. Students produce their own cinema projects and critical papers to familiarize themselves with techniques of aesthetics specific to narrative cinemas. A final project of the student’s design and participation in a culminating public exhibition of work from the class are required.
CNPH 21001: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CINEMA PRODUCTION: EAST-WEST CINEMA
Study of the cinema production process using significant works representative of important historic and contemporary ideas and movements. Screenings and readings guide discussions and analysis geared toward providing familiarity with a broad range of production models and connecting them to larger questions of culture production and artistic expression. 3 credits.
CNPH 22400: CINEMA PRODUCTION II
In this intermediate-level motion picture production course, students complete several works of cinema, continuing where Cinema Production 1 left off in both technical and artistic sophistication. Students will make significant progress in the areas of sound design, cinematography, directing, and editing. 4 credits.
CNPH 11100: CINEMA PRODUCTION I
In this intensive production experience, students learn the rudiments of creating a motion picture. Aspects of preproduction (idea conception, budgeting), production (camerawork, directing), and postproduction (sound and picture editing) are introduced as students create multiple works of cinema art. 4 credits.