Program Learning Outcomes: Filmmaking

Foundation/Core Learning Outcomes:

• Gain functional competence with principles of visual organization, including the ability to work with visual elements in two and three dimensions; color theory and its applications.
• Present work that demonstrates perceptual acuity, conceptual understanding, and technical facility at a professional entry level of their chosen field.
• Become familiar with the historical achievements, current major issues, processes, and directions in their field.
• Analyze works of film from both Western and non-Western cultures perceptively and to evaluate them critically.
• Understand the common elements and vocabulary of film and of the interaction of these elements.
• Demonstrate understanding of the craft of dramatic structure, and the interpretation of subtext as basis for crafting meaningful works.
• Be able to place works in historical, cultural, and stylistic contexts.
• Have a working knowledge of technologies and equipment applicable to the film industry.

Film Production Learning Outcomes:

• Understand, through production-oriented studies, communication, aesthetic, and design principles in the elements of film, including the use of time as an expressive design consideration.
• Gain knowledge and skills in the use of basic concepts, tools, techniques, and procedures sufficient to produce work from concept to finished product (this involves competence in film production processes, including fundamental knowledge of equipment and technologies.)
• Gain functional knowledge of the history of film, its artistic and technological evolution, and an understanding of basic aesthetic and critical theory.
• Learn to coordinate project elements and communicate with involved personnel at all stages of the production process.