MDC693 Thesis Production
Lead Faculty: Mr. Edward Alyn Warren III, MFA
Course Description
MFA Candidates work independently in consultation with the thesis production advisor during the pre-production and production phases. Production deliverables include a production plan, final budget and schedule, production documentation and dailies. This is a two-month course. Grading is H, S, or U only. Unsatisfactory graded course must be repeated.
Learning Outcomes
- Produce a shooting script or documentary production treatment.
- Plan the production phase of a digital short subject motion picture based on documents generated in previous courses.
- Design a production schedule that provides adequate time and personnel to accomplish the project objectives.
- Generate the requisite directorial documents to communicate, the directorial vision of the project to the production team.
- Communicate directorial objectives effectively to talent and crew to achieve dramatic, narrative, and production goals.
- Complete principle photography on a fiction or documentary short motion picture that meets the professed technical and aesthetic quality standards for audio, cinematography, mis-en-scéne and story established in the production development process.
- Compile a production book that provides the necessary documentation to meet post-production and distribution objectives.
