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  • COM FT 512: Writg Episod Dr
  • COM FT 514: Advanced Writing for Television
    Prereq FT 512 or FT 522. Explores the development and creation of the Television Series Pilot. Each student will pitch a concept, write a treatment and a finished pilot script for an original series, either comedy or drama. Emphasis on premise, story structure, characterization and originality. Lectures, screenings, script readings, written assignments and critiques. 4 cr. 2nd sem.
  • COM FT 515: Intrntnl Tv
  • COM FT 517: Television Management
    The responsibilities that television and multi-platform content managers face. Research, programming, revenue, regulatory issues and ethics are all explored. Lectures, readings, case studies, and visits from professionals develop the student's understanding of a variety of managerial functions and the challenges these functions entail. 4 cr. Fall/spring
  • COM FT 522: Writing Situatuion Comedies
    Intensive explorationin the key elements of the sitcom:character development, story structure, pitching, formats, writing, and polishing. Successful participants will have completed "spec" script for the current television market.
  • COM FT 523: Understanding Marketing and Sales
    A comprehensive look into the business of television and radio sales and marketing. Respected professionals occasionally guest-lecture on this important and ever changing area.
  • COM FT 525: Creative Producing II
    Course takes the student through the process of creating a fictional program or film. The course covers comedy and drame series and movies-of -the week from development through production and post-production. The student learns the complexities of the industry, the layers of decision makers to be dealt with, the place of agents, the nature of negotiation, and the fundamentals of hiring crews, scheduling and budgeting. 4cr, 2nd sem.
  • COM FT 526: Directing the Theatrical and Television Film
    Students learn all aspects of directing, with particular emphasis given to script analysis and working with actors. The director's involvement in blocking action, composing shots, managing the production process and editing are also covered. Acting experience is helpful but not required.
  • COM FT 527: Lighting
    An intensive combination of lecture, demonstration, and hands-on work in lighting. Film and video systems, from the camera to the transfer, are explained, explored, and used. Guest lecturers and field trips to production facilities and shooting locations are included. 4 cr, either sem.
  • COM FT 533: American Independent Film
    A survey of cinema from the past three decades originating outside of the studio system. Though the screening list changes from semester to semester, filmmakers to be dealt with include Elaine May, Barbara Loder, John Cassavetes, Robert Kramer, Mark Rappaport, and Charles Burnett, among others.
  • COM FT 536: Film Theory and Criticism
    An introduction to classical and contemporary film and media theory. Topics include montage theory, realism, structuralism, post-structuralism, semiotics, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and cultural studies. The course includes screenings of films that have contributed to critical debate and those that challenge theoretical presuppositions.
  • COM FT 542: Advanced Screenwriting
    The student will write a first-draft screenplay and two sets of revisions. 4cr. 1st sem.
  • COM FT 543: Television Comedy
    Examines the forms comedy has taken in television and determines critical methods for evaluating and judging this particular form of entertainment.
  • COM FT 545: Television and Childhood
    Examines the important role played by television in child development and culture, with special reference to the provision and content of programming for children of different ages, from preschool to adolescence.
  • COM FT 549: the Profane
  • COM FT 550: Newscndvn/Dogme
  • COM FT 551: Designing the Short Film
    This course explores the aesthetic and technical parameters of the short film format, with the goal of celebrating Short Film, as a genre in and of itself. 4cr. either sem.
  • COM FT 552: Special Topics
    See the Department of Film and Televison for specifics.
  • COM FT 553: Special Topics
    Topics and instructors vary each semester. Details are available from the Department of Film and Television. Recent offerings have included Writing Episodic Drama.
  • COM FT 554: Special Topics/Variable
    Details are available from the department of Film and Television. Topics and instructor vary each semester. Recent topics have included the films of John Cassavetes, Alfred Hitchcock, Mike Leigh, and Rainer Fassbinder; the Blacklist; and writing situation comedies.

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