Introduction to the cinematic techniques and themes utilized by film directors from around the world. Lectures, screenings, and discussions.

Introduction to multiple genres analyzing stylistic, historical, cultural, political, and ideological aspects of film.

Historical and critical survey of the evolution of motion pictures as an art form and as a distinctive medium of communication. Lectures, screenings, and discussions.

Introduction to time-based media production and analysis. Media production activities, lecture, screening and discussion.

(Same as JOUR 3000 and THEA 3000.) Principles, processes, and aesthetics of lighting design for the theatre, film, and television. Lectures, discussions, and design practica aid students in the development of a lighting plot. Production crew work required.

Practical application of audio/video recording and editing skills to produce broadcast quality video to be aired by Georgia Public Broadcasting or other media partners with the university. Students will select from a calendar of events on and off campus to record audio/video and to post-produce for GPB programming, and some travel may be required. There is no set class time, but students will have review meetings to discuss their recordings and/or post-production work.

Students will develop fiction scripts and/or non-fiction/documentary proposal documents for short film/video projects. Narrative and rhetorical strategies will be explored through characterization, structure, conflict and dialog/voice-over. Course provides an in-depth experience for students intending to make a short film or video in subsequent production courses from the script or proposal developed in the course.

Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. A comprehensive introduction to cinematography. The course covers framing and lighting for different film and electronic imaging formats. Out of class collaboration is required. Student must bear all additional costs for productions during the semester.

Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. (Same as THEA 3300.) Basic principles of generating creative concepts, writing in dialogue form, dramatic structure, characterization, and using page formats for both play and screenplay. Students will write short pieces in both forms.

This course is designed to arm students with the skills they need to successfully navigate the film, television and theatre industries. Students will be instructed on topics ranging from producing a theatre work to networking your way into a job at a studio, or getting an agent or manager. They will learn through “doing’ as they develop a vision, create a plan, and build a website.

An overview of the history of radio, television and new entertainment media in the cultural contexts in which they emerged and have evolved into the 21st century. Discusses the local, national, and international media environments that influenced broadcasting media forms and charts aesthetic, audience, production, regulatory, industrial and technological developments and the social meanings and debates provoked by programming.

Discussion and readings on selected topics.

An overview of how industrial, regulatory, economic, and cultural forces interact in the production, distribution and reception of media texts. Considers the ideological and institutional structures that impact our experience of cultural forms.

Acting and Directing for the Camera. An in-depth exploration of approaches to performance for the actor and director of film and television production. Extensive out of class collaboration is required.

Two lecture and two laboratory hours per week. Introduction to film-style, digital video production with an emphasis on story development, basic editing technique and dynamic camerawork as a means to develop directorial vision. Students will produce short fiction, non-fiction and experimental projects. (Special authorization required. See degree requirements).

Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Two lecture and two lab hours. Seminar combines service learning and advanced digital video production to preserve stories of overlooked local communities. (Special authorization required. See degree requirements).

Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Two lecture and two laboratory hours per week. Advanced course in film-style, digital video and/or film production with additional focus on advanced story development, directing, lighting and sound. Students will pre-produce, produce and/or post-produce fiction, non-fiction and/or experimental projects. (Special authorization required. See degree requirements).

Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. In-depth investigation into various modes and methods of film and digital production, including fiction, documentary, experimental, personal narrative, web video, interactive media, directing, cinematography, post-production, and sound design. May be repeated once if topic varies.

Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. The creative, technical and managerial process of developing serialized entertainment for television as it propagates the Internet, both as audio-visual entertainment and audience response data. Students will learn the development, production, post-production, dissemination and analytic stages of contemporary New Media television practice by working in teams to produce a serial or episodic internet-based TV show. Extensive collaborative production required.

Students will study and practice the essential elements and conventions of writing the series. Students will also develop a Pitch Package for an original web series.

Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. An exploration of editing media through the manipulation of images and sound.

Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Two lecture and two lab hours. Advanced documentary digital video production with a focus on a variety of formal approaches to non-fiction filmmaking. (Film majors only: special authorization required. See degree requirements).

Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Two lecture and two laboratory hours. Students analyze and produce new media and then create a series of new and emerging media products. Students learn to use new forms of distribution and master promotional tools to build an audience for their work. Film majors only.

Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Students will develop or continue to develop a media concept, business or technology through an intensive semester long curriculum structured as an incubator/accelerator. This class will study the convergence of media producer and media entrepreneur while students create at the intersection of media, business and technology and culminate with a final presentation of the student’s pitch and prototype to media industry professionals.

Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Design multimedia stories from the ground up in which movies, video games, web sites, smart phone applications, comic books, and other media are equal partners and all elements of a complete story.

An exploration of the production visual and audio assets for Internet transmission and interactive media experience, using techniques and forms that best utilize the evolving aesthetics of the digital and interactive media cultures of the moment. New concepts of interactive storytelling in documentary and/or fiction, and for the visualization of characters and their settings will blend cinematic aesthetics with other aesthetic systems.

An introduction to the production of creative components of interactive and digital media derived from code and computation that is at the forefront of new forms of personal and public expression. Popular culture in the form of games, websites, interactive television, interactive animation and digital art use computational media, and will be the genres that students will produce.

Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Advanced course in digital video and/or film production which focuses on advanced story line development, producing, directing, lighting and sound. Students will write, pre-produce, shoot and post-produce their project, culminating in the creation of short fiction film.

Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Supervised experience in individual projects developed out of the student’s professional or vocational interests and responsibilities. There is a fee associated with this course that must be paid on enrollment in the course. May be repeated once if topic varies.

Discussion of the structural, aesthetic, and social factors that shaped American film from its inception through the classic studio period.

An examination of a specific major international film industry or movement and its contributions to world cinema. Films will be studied in their immediate cultural and larger historical and critical contexts. May be repeated once if topic varies.

Critically examines the ideological, cultural, economic, social, political and industrial dimension of media globalization, drawing on examples from diverse geographical and cultural locations, and reviews the main theoretical debates shaping contemporary conversations about globalization, media and culture. 3.0 credit hours. Global Perspectives Course.

An examination of the industrial, socio-cultural and formal-aesthetic characteristics of independently produced, distributed and/or exhibited American films. This course also addresses the validity and usefulness of the “independent” label within the present media context.

Examination of contemporary television’s formal-aesthetic traits as well as its shifting position as a cultural, social, political and industrial force. Exploration of how television is being transformed as it converges with other digital technologies.

History of television and its origins in radio, focusing on the medium as a technology, an industry, a site of gender and racial representation, a component of American social history, and a cultural forum.

The history of non-fiction film and production.

Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Role of the producer in television and film. Refinement of skills in developing program ideas, supervising production, and financing projects.

A study of how one medium is transformed into another based on a close reading of both. Adaptation theory will be included, as well as a consideration of the interim screenplay and the film production process where possible.

Study of genre theory as applied to specific genres such as western, melodrama, comedy, and detective film. May be repeated once if topic varies.

Principles of writing the full-length screenplay for feature film. Preparation for and writing of the first half of the screenplay. The second half will be completed in the sequence course, Film 4320: Feature Screenwriting II.

Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Principles of writing the full-length screenplay for feature film, including contest competitions and marketing. Writing and revising the second half of the screenplay begun in Film 4310: Feature Screenwriting I.

Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. The expressive aesthetics of motion picture sound, its technology and methods of production will provide students the foundations for creating soundtracks for their own films in progress, or for films already completed. Extensive lab time is required. Students must be able to work collaboratively to produce studio and field recordings.

Only students who have met the Film an Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. An advanced production course that explores highly-personal avant-garde and experimental media making by any means necessary, including but not limited to: experimental documentary and fiction, found footage/cameraless filmmaking, new media, web video, mobile media, video art, installation, etc.

Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. This course will explore concepts of visual effects for film, television and games. These concepts will be applied to practical exercises where student will learn to manipulate media through compositing and 2-D animation.

Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. This advanced course explores the history and developing aesthetics of music video through hands-on production exercises and projects. Participants learn about, analyze, and discuss the variety of modes in which musicians promote themselves, express their worldviews, and tell stories through the music video medium.

Theoretical writing about television and other media from a cultural studies perspective. Critical Thinking Through Writing Course.

Film form and techniques; theoretical and critical writing about film; screenings. Serves as one of the two Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) courses required of all film majors.

(Same as AAS 4900.) Mainstream Hollywood representation of African-Americans and the alternative film portrayals by African-American producers.

(Same as WGSS 4340.) Examines representations of gender in film and media from a variety of analytical perspectives as a way to understand social relations and cultural practices.

Race as theory and method of representation across media and cultural spheres. Emphasis on close analysis of formal and social construction of racial meanings in national and international contexts. May be repeated once if content varies.

May be repeated once if topic varies.

Technological, economic, historical, political, and social forces that shape the film, television, and media industries.

(For Film majors only.) (Same as JOUR 4810.) Examination of mediated popular culture forms from a variety of analytical perspectives as a way to understand social structures and everyday practices. Emphasis on dominant cultural and subcultural readings of artifacts produced by the media.

(Same as CSC 4840 and GRD 4840.) Study the theories, techniques and tools for creating 3D graphics content. Topics include 3D modeling, camera, lighting, materials, texture mapping, physics based modeling, basic animation, and rendering techniques (such as tracing and radiosity).

Readings and research preparatory to honors thesis or project. This course may include a Signature Experience component.

Writing or production of honors thesis or project. This course may include a Signature Experience component.

Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Individually designed project in the area of film utilizing on-campus and/or field resources. May be repeated for a maximum of nine hours.

Senior class standing.
Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval.
An in-depth examination of the relationship between media authors and audiences, resulting in a significant research/creative project. Serves as one of the two Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) courses required of all film majors.

Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. Supervised experience in individual projects developed out of the student’s professional or vocational interests and responsibilities. There is a fee associated with this course that must be paid on enrollment in the course.

American film from the post-classical period to the present. Discussion of the semiotics, aesthetics, economics and politics of Hollywood and independent cinema.

Further Eligibility criteria may be obtained from the School of Film, Media, and Theatre Internship Coordinator. Representative field experiences in film and media. This course cannot be repeated for more than 6 credit hours. This course may include a Signature Experience component.

Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval. This course may satisfy the junior and/or senior-level Critical Thinking Through Writing requirements.