PROGRAM GUIDE | COURSE DESCRIPTIONS | FACULTY | SCHEDULE OF COURSES
"FILMMAKING IS A CHANCE TO LIVE MANY LIFETIMES." ~ Robert Altman
Bring Your Vision to the Screen
In a program designed to model real-world production environments, you will learn the skills necessary to develop your voice and vision as a filmmaker. During your first two years, you'll be trained in all the fundamental crafts of cinema production with an emphasis on narrative storytelling and collaboration. In your junior and senior years, you'll select one of the concentrations below for advanced study, practice and application.
Concentrations Offered
- Cinematography
- Directing
- Editing
- Producing
- Sound
Four Years of Hands-on Experience
You will begin producing work your first year here and will have the unique opportunity to make films in each year of the program. You will shoot in professional HD and have an array of equipment available to you during productions. Since we provide all the equipment necessary, we keep production costs at a minimum, allowing students’ creativity to flourish.
Collaboration
Our program is designed to model a real-world production environment, and we place a strong emphasis on collaboration and interdisciplinary study. During your four years here, you will also work with screenwriters and digital artists in courses to create works for the big and small screen. Because of this incubator environment, you will have the opportunity to work on dozens of production projects.
Course Offerings
You will receive a well-rounded education through Point Park's core curriculum and classes in your major. Some of the courses in the cinema production program include:
- Commercial Production Workshop
- Documentary Production Workshop
- Intermediate and Advanced Cinematography
- Intermediate and Advanced Digital Tools
- Intermediate and Advanced Directing
- Intermediate and Advanced Editing
- Intermediate and Advanced Producing
- Intermediate and Advanced Sound
- Narrative Structure of Cinema
- Story Analysis
- Visual Structure of Cinema
For a comprehensive list of program requirements and course descriptions, see the program guide and Cinema and Digital Arts course descriptions.
PROGRAM GUIDE | COURSE DESCRIPTIONS | FACULTY | SCHEDULE OF COURSES