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USC Catalogue 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

Courses of Instruction

The terms indicated are expected but are not guaranteed. For the courses offered during any given term, consult the Schedule of Classes.
 

Interactive Media

Note: Instructor availability for a particular course or section cannot be guaranteed.
  

  • CTIN 478 Level Design Workshop

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp

    A workshop on focused design tasks, creating many levels on paper and in game engines.
    Prerequisite: CTIN 488  or CTIN 541  
    Recommended Preparation: CTIN 483  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 479 Documentary and Activist Games

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    How interaction design and games document reality. The unique abilities of interactive media in the realms of non-fiction, documentary, and activism.
    Recommended Preparation: CTIN 190 , CTIN 488  or CTIN 541 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 482 Designing Social Games

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 04
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Leading industry techniques and networking fundamentals; designing an original social game.
    Duplicates Credit in former CNTV 482
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 483 Introduction to Game Development

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to technical and creative aspects of game development, including the art of creating the digital game prototype and development of games; coding experience required.
    Prerequisite: CTIN 101  or ITP 165  
    Recommended Preparation: CTIN 290  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 484L Intermediate Game Development

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Advanced topics in game programming and implementation such as using game engines, creating digital prototypes, player controls and level design.
    Prerequisite: CTIN 483 , CTIN 488  or CTIN 541 ;
    Concurrent Enrollment: concurrent enrollment: CTIN 489 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 485L Advanced Game Development

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Advanced concepts in 3-D game development: story and character progression, emergent game-play, comprehensive game mechanics, and artificial intelligence.
    Prerequisite: CTIN 483 , CTIN 484L , CTIN 488 , CTIN 489 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 486 Alternative Control Workshop

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Design of game projects using immersive input devices. Development of play mechanics, feedback systems and game design for immersive environments.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 488 Game Design Workshop

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    An introduction to making games. Students will explore the principles of game design through the entirely analog creation of card, board and tabletop games.
    Recommended Preparation: CTIN 190  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 489 Intermediate Game Design Workshop

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    A follow-up to the introductory game design class, this course will introduce more advanced concepts in game design and game theories, including ideation, digital prototyping and level design.
    Prerequisite: CTIN 483 , CTIN 488  or CTIN 541 ;
    Concurrent Enrollment: concurrent enrollment: CTIN 484 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 490x Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Individual research and readings.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 491L Advanced Game Project I

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 08
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Students work in teams on pre-production and production of a functional digital game suitable for showcases, festivals, and further development.
    Prerequisite: CTIN 404L  or CTIN 406L  or CTIN 484L  or CTAN 452  or ART 442  or FASC 436  
    Duplicates Credit in former CTIN 491a
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 492L Experimental Game Topics

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Development of a game around a custom-made physical interface; various technologies and techniques involved in a software/hardware integration; peripheral design.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 493L Advanced Game Project II

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 4.0
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Students work in teams to polish and finalize a functional digital game suitable for distribution via the web and/or submission into independent games festivals.
    Duplicates Credit in former CTIN 491b.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 497 Interactive Media Startup

    Units: 1
    Max Units: 3.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Pitching, production planning, forming a company and seeking funding for your creative media idea.
    Duplicates Credit in former CTIN 497ab.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 499 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Detailed investigation of new or emerging aspects of cinema, television, and/or interactive media; special subjects offered by visiting faculty; experimental subjects.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 501 Interactive Cinema

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Provide students with a vocabulary of conceptual and artistic means to create computer based interactive works.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 502a Experiments in Stereoscopic Imaging

    Units: 2
    (Enroll in CTAN 502ab)
  

  • CTIN 502b Experiments in Stereoscopic Imaging

    Units: 2
    (Enroll in CTAN 502ab)
  

  • CTIN 503 Interactive Entertainment, Science, and Healthcare

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Overview of foundational concepts required for design, development and evaluation of interactive entertainment and transmedia-based interventions at the intersection of neuroscience, public health and medicine. 
    Recommended Preparation: Proficiency in conducting literature reviews; social media use; using interactive media and playing games.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to seniors and graduate students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 506 Procedural Expression

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Developing procedural literacy in the analysis and creation of computational media; an introduction to how we create meaningful experiences using rules and interaction.
    Duplicates Credit in former CTIN 400.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 510 Research Methods for Innovation, Engagement and Assessment

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Planning, designing, and analyzing a research study for a digital media project. Production of a written report and presentation.
    Recommended Preparation: CTIN 506 , CTIN 541 , and CTCS 505 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 511 Interactive Media Seminar

    Units: 1
    Max Units: 4.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Seminars on latest trends in interactive media content, technology, tools, business and culture.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • CTIN 520 Experience and Design of Public Interactives

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Introduction to the design of public interactives, the meaning of built space and environmental experiences, and the relationship between interactivity and social communication.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 532L Interactive Design and Production I

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    The development of interactive experiences with an emphasis on prototyping and development.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 534L Experiments in Interactivity I

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Experimental studio course to explore concepts of structure, aesthetics and content of interactive experience design.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 541 Design for Interactive Media

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Practical exploration and practicum on the fundamental technical and aesthetic principles in the design of interactive media. Students will develop design and prototyping skills.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 542 Interactive Design and Production II

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Interactive design, prototyping and testing of projects developed in CTIN 548 .
    Prerequisite: CTIN 532 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 544 Experiments in Interactivity II

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Experimental studio course in application of technology to interactive experience.
    Prerequisite: CTIN 534 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 548 Preparing the Interactive Project

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    An advanced production workshop in which students design and prepare for the production of their advanced project.
    Prerequisite: CTIN 532 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 558 Business of Interactive Media

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    In-depth investigation of publication, distribution, business and legal aspects of the interactive entertainment business.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 583 Game Development for Designers

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    The fundamentals of 3-D real time game engines, scripting for interactivity, and building games with digital tools.
    Recommended Preparation: CTIN 506  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 584a Individual Interactive Workshop

    Units: 4
    Individual experimental projects involving the creative use of interactive media and film production skills.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress & Letter Grade

  

  • CTIN 584b Individual Interactive Workshop

    Units: 2
    Individual experimental projects involving the creative use of interactive media and film production skills.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress & Letter Grade

  

  • CTIN 584c Individual Interactive Workshop

    Units: 2
    Individual experimental projects involving the creative use of interactive media and film production skills.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress & Letter Grade

  

  • CTIN 584z Individual Interactive Workshop

    Units: 0
    Individual experimental projects involving the creative use of interactive media and film production skills.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress & Letter Grade

  

  • CTIN 590 Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Research project leading to the master’s degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • CTIN 591 Advanced Development Project

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Students from many disciplines work in large teams to create an innovative, large-scale interactive media or game project.
    Recommended Preparation: CTCS 505 , CTIN 541 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTIN 593 Integrative Project: Media-based Interventions in Healthcare

    Units: 2, 4
    Max Units: 4
    A project that showcases integrative mastery of prior and newly acquired knowledge, skills and interests. Permission of instructor required. 
    Prerequisite: CTIN 503 .
    Corequisite: IML 543 .
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Media Arts, Games and Health majors.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • CTIN 594a Master’s Thesis

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Prerequisite: CTIN 548 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress & Credit/No Credit

  

  • CTIN 594b Master’s Thesis

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Prerequisite: CTIN 548 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit

  

  • CTIN 594z Master’s Thesis

    Units: 0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Credit on acceptance of thesis.
    Prerequisite: CTIN 548 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: In-progress & Credit/No Credit

  

  • CTIN 599 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Detailed investigation of new or emerging aspects of interactive media; special subjects offered by visiting faculty; experimental subjects.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter


Production

Note: Instructor availability for a particular course or section cannot be guaranteed.
  

  • CTPR 240x Practicum in Production

    Units: 2 or 4
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Basic production techniques: introduction to the cinematic elements, production techniques, and equipment; film and/or videotape production.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 241 Fundamentals of Cinema Technique

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to cinema production techniques and equipment including producing, directing, camera, lighting, and editing.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 242 Fundamentals of Cinematic Sound

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to sound design, recording, editing, mixing and finishing. Lectures, demonstrations and exercises.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 280 Structure of the Moving Image

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Basic theory and application of the concepts of time, space, composition, movement, light and color in motion picture production.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 285 Lateral Thinking for Filmmaking Practice

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduces contemporary concepts of production, emphasizing the variety of contemporary media and significant related concepts. Projects created using laptops, phones and networks.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 288 Originating and Developing Ideas for Film

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Exercises in observation, imaginative association, visualization, etc., that deepen the creative process, leading to ideas, stories, characters and images for narrative, documentary and experimental films.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 290 Cinematic Communication

    Units: 4, 6
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Introduction to the interrelationship of visuals, sound, and editing in cinematic communication. Workshops in directing and producing. Individual and group projects.
    Recommended Preparation: CTPR 285 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 294 Directing in Documentary, Fiction and New Media

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Basic concepts of directing in new media, documentary and fictional narrative. Includes work with actors, documentary concepts, and creation of short new media projects.
    Concurrent Enrollment: CTPR 295L 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 295L Cinematic Arts Laboratory

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    The aesthetics and tools of the major disciplines of cinematic arts: producing, cinematography, sound, and editing.
    Concurrent Enrollment: Concurrent enrollment: CTPR 294 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 301 Creating the Non-Fiction Film

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Research and writing challenges of non-fiction film (documentary, educational, industrial, political, etc.), from treatment to finished script.
    Duplicates Credit in former CTWR 301.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 310 Intermediate Production

    Units: 4, 6
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Principles of visual and aural communication; idea development and realization using image, movement, pace, the spoken word and other sounds; small crew projects.
    Prerequisite: CTPR 294 , CTPR 295L .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 327 Motion Picture Cinematography

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Use of high definition motion picture equipment to explore the fundamentals of shot design, movement and lighting. In class group projects.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 335 Motion Picture Editing

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Theory, techniques, and practices in picture editing; use of standard editing equipment; individual projects.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 340 Creating the Motion Picture Sound Track

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Techniques and aesthetics for recording production sound, editing dialogue, sound effects, music, Foley and preparing for the mix. For film, television, and other media.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 371 Directing for Television

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Preparation of director’s preproduction blockout; study of direction for live, tape, and film production, for both dramatic and informational television.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 375 Functions of a Director

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Theoretical considerations of the director in relationship to the multiple facets of film production.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 382 Advanced Multi-Camera Television Comedy Pilot

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    A hands-on course which allows students to experience all aspects of multi-camera television production by creating a pilot episode of a situation comedy.
    Recommended Preparation: experience working at Trojanvision.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 385 Colloquium: Motion Picture Production Techniques

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Basic procedures and techniques applicable to production of all types of films; demonstration by production of a short film from conception to completion.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 386 Art and Industry of the Theatrical Film

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Detailed analysis of one theatrical film from conception through critical reception to develop an understanding of motion pictures as art, craft, and industry.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 405 Filmic Expression

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Creative aspects of film production; analysis of audio and visual forces that make the film an expressive means of communication; individual projects.
    Prerequisite: CTPR 310 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 409L Practicum in Television Production

    Units: 2, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Television production laboratory course covers operating cameras, creating graphics, technical operations, controlling audio and floor-managing live productions. Students plan and produce actual Trojan Vision programs.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 410 The Movie Business: From Story Concept to Exhibition

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Examination of the industry from story ideas through script development, production and exhibition; evaluation of roles played by writers, agents, studio executives, marketing and publicity.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 421 Practicum in Editing

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Workshop in how editing can shape storytelling, using content from a variety of media and in various styles. Modern non-linear equipment and techniques.
    Prerequisite: CTPR 310  or CTPR 335 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 422 Makeup for Motion Pictures

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Lecture-laboratory in makeup relating it to mood of the story and emulsion of the camera stock.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 423 Introduction to Special Effects in Cinema

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introductory workshop in the aesthetics and practices of special effects, embracing both the classical and contemporary modes.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 424 Practicum in Cinematography

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Camera and lighting workshop in color cinematography, beginning with digital still photography and moving into 16mm and advanced digital cameras. In-class exercises.
    Prerequisite: CTPR 310  or CTPR 327 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 425 Production Planning

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Theory, discussion, and practical application of production planning during preproduction and production of a film.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 426 The Production Experience

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    To provide students with basic working knowledge of both the skills of the motion picture set and production operations through classroom lectures and hands-on experience.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 427 Introduction to Color Grading

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Exploration of the various aspects of color grading and how it can enhance storytelling.
    Prerequisite: CTPR 310  or CTPR 508  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 428 Summer Production Workshop

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: Sm
    To investigate disciplines of Cinema-TV with emphasis on one of the following areas: writing, directing, editing, camera, sound, editing, producing, interactive, computer animation or digital.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 431 Developing the Documentary Production

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    The tools and skills necessary to turn an idea into a documentary story, using sample reels, pitches, and writing to develop a professional proposal.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 438 Practicum in Producing

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    A comprehensive overview of the role of the producer. How projects are conceived, developed, packaged, financed and marketed.
    Prerequisite: CTPR 310  or CTPR 425 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 440 Practicum in Sound

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 4.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Aesthetic and technical skills of production and postproduction sound necessary to create a motion picture soundtrack.
    Prerequisite: CTPR 310  or CTPR 340 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 441 Sound Design

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    The historical, theoretical, and practical aspects of sound design for genre films. Exploration of the techniques and processes for creating sounds that do not exist.
    Prerequisite: CTPR 310  or CTPR 508 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 447 Producing Visual Effects

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    The complex creative, technical, financial, logistical and political challenges of incorporating visual effects into film projects from initial pre-production through final delivery.
    Prerequisite: CTPR 310  or CTPR 508 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 448 World Building Design Studio

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Integrating visual and scenario design in the construction of worlds as containers for narrative in documentary, drama, fiction, fantasy, and immersive media.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 450 The Production and Post-Production Assistant

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Detailed view of the process of making media. Introducing fundamental thinking typical of each craft. Weekend crew experience and responsibilities.
    Prerequisite: CTPR 310 .
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Cinematic Arts Film and Television Production majors.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 454 Acting for Film and Television

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Intensive examination of skills and techniques necessary for successful performances in film and television. Practical application through in-class exercises and assigned projects.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 455 Survey of Production Design

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    How production designers in film and television use graphic tools to create thematic visuals based on a script. Lectures, guest speakers, individual projects.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 456 Introduction to Art Direction

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to drafting, set design, set decoration and creating models for students with diverse abilities. Guest lectures, group discussions and hands-on workshop.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 457 Creating Poetic Cinema

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    An investigation of poetic cinema from four different perspectives: found poetry; applied poetry; poetry as image; and poetry in narrative fiction. Production of short films.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 458 Organizing Creativity: Entertainment Industry Decision Making

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Analysis of the unique structures in the entertainment industry for organizing and managing creativity. Students research and chart pathways to leadership.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to juniors, seniors, and graduate students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 459 Introduction to Media and Social Change

    Units: 4
    The history and theory of media and social change, including various disciplines and approaches: social marketing, communication campaign design, entertainment-education and specific media.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 460 Film Business Procedures and Distribution

    Units: 2 or 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Financing, budgeting, management as applied to films; problems of distribution, including merchandising, cataloging, evaluation, and film library management.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 461 Managing Television Stations and Internet Media

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Managing electronic media, including radio and television stations, broadcast and cable networks, and the Internet.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 462 Masters of Directorial Style

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    The study of exceptional directors from different eras with contrasting stylistic approaches, and how these techniques can creatively inform the student’s own work.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 464 Directing the Television Sketch Comedy Show

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Concepts and skills in directing sketch comedy shows, using the techniques of live television. Hands-on experience on live weekly shows. 
    Recommended Preparation: CTPR 371   or CTPR 476   or CTPR 484   or CTPR 523   or CTPR 532 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 465 Practicum in Production Design

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Practical instruction in script breakdown, location surveys, traditional and computer-aided working drawings, model making, set decoration, construction and scenic departments.
    Prerequisite: CTPR 310  or CTPR 456 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 466 The Art of the Pitch

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Presenting ideas for feature and television projects to buyers: shaping ideas for pitching, assessing and targeting the marketplace, in-class pitching of projects.
    Prerequisite: CTPR 310 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 469 Creating Webisodes

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Production of a fully realized pilot episode, series bible and sizzle reel for a web series.
    Prerequisite: CTPR 310   or CTPR 508  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 470 Practicum in On-screen Direction of Actors

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Concentration on the basic skills in working with actors from a director’s point of view.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 473 Spotting Music for Cinema

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    A real world approach to spotting music for film: why film music exists and the many ways it is used in storytelling. For filmmakers as well as composers.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 474 Documentary Production

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Pairs produce, direct, shoot, and edit a short documentary on a subject of their choice. Finished projects will be suitable for broadcast/festivals.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 476 Directing The Comedic Scene

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Directing comedy: casting, rehearsing, directing actors, scene analysis, staging, shooting, and editing, leading to the filming of a two-person comic scene.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 477 Special Problems in Directing

    Units: 2 or 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Detailed investigation and analysis of problems in directing. Individual projects.
    Prerequisite: CTPR 476  or CTPR 478  or CTPR 532 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 478 Practicum in Directing

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Concepts of directing for motion pictures, emphasizing the working relationship of actors and directors. Scenes will be staged in class and filmed for class presentation.
    Prerequisite: CTPR 310 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 479 Single Camera Television Dramatic Pilot

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Collaborative writing, preproduction and shooting of a pilot act for an original episodic television drama, shot on stage sets built for the show.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • CTPR 480 Advanced Production Workshop

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Directors, producers, cinematographers, editors and sound designers collaborate to produce, shoot, edit and deliver fictional, documentary or experimental projects.
    Prerequisite: CTPR 450  
    Recommended Preparation: CTPR 478  required to direct
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Film and Television Production majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

 

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