Now admitting for Fall 2009.

Producing content for film and television is a significant career path in the film and television industry. Producing is distinctly different than Directing, Editing, Cinematography, Production Design and Sound Design, which are the hands-on, key creative filmmaking disciplines currently covered in our BFA in Film Production degree. Unlike those disciplines, Producing combines fundamental creative skills with business, legal and organizational aspects of making films for the entertainment industry. Producing requires understanding the marketplace for creative content; recognizing and securing rights to marketable source material; finding financiers and distributors to fund and release the project; organizing, budgeting and scheduling the production; and assembling and collaborating with key creative artists to form a collective vision throughout the project’s development, preproduction, production and postproduction.

The educational goals of this degree would be to prepare young filmmakers to develop creative properties for production and distribution for the film and television industry, as well as on an international basis. This would include understanding story and script development, the entire production and post-production process, financing, marketing, distribution, exhibition and entertainment law. Special attention would be given to the development and current state of domestic and international cinema, building on knowledge of key national film industries. Students would be expected to be prepared to function as creative producers with a mastery of both the creative/development and business functions of film and media production. They would leave the program with a fully developed portfolio including a film or media production they have produced as well as a thesis book for a proposed film or media production including detailed plans for rights acquisition, story development, pitching, budgeting, packaging, marketing, distribution, and exhibition.

core requirements

FTV 130 - Introduction to Visual Storytelling
FTV 140 - Introduction to Film Aesthetics
FTV 227 - Screenwriting Fundamentals
FTV 240 - Business of Television
FTV 244 - Film History (pre-1946)
FTV 245 - Film History (1946-present)
FTV 317 - Creative Producing and Development
FTV 334 - Production Management
FTV 357 - Feature Analysis
FTV 360 - Overview of Producing
FTV 371 - Location Filmmaking
FTV 449 - International Marketing and Distribution
FTV 467 - Production Financing
FTV 493 - Senior Project: Producing a Film
FTV 494 - Senior Project: Creative Development Portfolio
FTV 499 - Internship

elective courses: choose two (6 Credits)

FTV 262 - Prime Time and the Game of Television
FTV 304 - Survey International Cinema
FTV 327 - Feature Screenwriting I
FTV 342 - Film Genre
FTV 351 - Business Presentations
FTV 370 - Internet Communications
FTV 389 - Cross-Cultural Documentary
FTV 419 - Entertainment Marketing and Promotion
FTV 424 - Producing for Broadcast
FTV 425 - Producing the Independent Film
FTV 427 - Feature Screenwriting II
FTV 443 - Advanced Topics in World Cinema
FTV 451 - Production Rights and Contracts
FTV 477 - International Co-Productions

Total credits: 54