Pr-requisite for Production I:

Production I:

You may take FT 507 TELEVISION STUDIO PRODUCTION concurrently with FT 353 Production I.

After successfully completing Production I with a B- or higher, you must take one or more of the following electives below in order to continue the Production path:

Production II: Based on your interests, you might consider taking the following courses, in addition to any of the courses listed above, concurrently with FT 402 PRODUCTION II:

Production III: Consider taking the following courses concurrently with FT 468 PRODUCTION III. (Production III is an honors course and requires an application):

Suggested Electives Outside of Film and Television

In addition to finding their way up the ladder of production courses, students with an interest in production should take advantage of the breadth of subjects offered at the university. Each semester, thousands of courses are offered at BU in scores of departments. Here is a way to sort through this vast array of resources by topic. Sample courses are included in parentheses. Keep in mind that there may be prerequisites to some of these courses.

Storytelling

  • Anthropology (CAS AN 220 – Urban Anthropology; CAS AN 384 – Anthropology of Religion)
  • History (CAS HI 214 – History of Piracy; CAS HI 299 – History of the Civil Rights Movement)
  • Sociology (CAS SO 100 – Principles in Sociology)
  • Gender Studies (CAS WS 326 – Arts of Gender; CAS So 241 – Sociology of Gender; CAS HI 478 – Women on Trial)
  • Drama (CFA TH 101 – Introduction to Aesthetics and Dramatic Literature)

Directing

  • Acting (CFA TH 120 – Acting & Performance 1)
  • Psychology (CAS PS 354 – Psychology and Criminal Justice)
  • Drawing (CFA AR 192 – Intro to Drawing)

Producing

  • Marketing (COM CM 317 – Introduction to Advertising)
  • Accounting (QST AC 221 – Financial Accounting)
  • Ethics (CAS PH 244 – How Are We To Live? Ethics in Action)
  • Media Law (COM CM 481 – Law of Communication)

Cinematography

  • Physics (CAS PY 101 – Topics in Physics)
  • Art History (CAS AH 111 – Introduction to Art History 1: Antiquity to the Middle Ages)
  • Photography (CAS AH 395 – History of Photography; COM JO 305 – Basic Photography for Non-majors)

Sound

  • Acoustics (CAS PY 231 – The Physics of Music)
  • Music (CFA MH 106 – Music and Culture)

Editing

  • Graphics (COM CM 323 – Design Strategy & Software; COM JO 301 – Editorial Design)
  • Computer Science (CAS CS 103 – Introduction to Internet Technologies and Web Programming)

Students are urged to be creative and adventurous in their course selections. Any area of enquiry has the potential to add to their personal and professional development. Learning a foreign language might prepare a future direction to work overseas. Studying astronomy might help a future visual effects artist render images of space travel.