In addition, students undertake research projects and provide oral reports. Student obligations to be agreed upon in an internship contract. Supervising faculty hold periodic meetings with student interns and their supervisors to properly evaluate intern performance. Research projects required in classroom component of course. Linear and non-linear editing equipment available.
Students develop production assignments in consultation with instructor.
TO KANE Traces origin and development of motion pictures from early Lumiere films to Pre-WW II era. There are screenings, analysis and discussion of significant films representing such topics as evolution of film grammar, German Expressionism, Soviet montage, and the American studio system. There are screenings, analysis and discussion of significant films representing such topics as Film Noir, Italian Neorealism, French New Wave, emergence of national cinemas, and the American independent film. Explores how Hollywood films work technically, aethetically and culturally to reinforce and challenge America's national self-image. Students examine films as statements by individuals living within a partcular cultural framework, as instruments of prooganda, as entertainment, and as devices which expand our perspective of the world around us.