Film and Digital Media Elective Courses
Elective Courses Spring 2023
ELECTIVE COURSES: Spring 2023
Registration link for all CaPE classes: https://aceware.clayton.edu/wconnect/ace/ShowSchedule.awp?&Mode=GROUP&Group=:FULL&Title=All+Courses
Reel Fight Choreography
Reel Fight Choreography covers the essential skills required to successfully participate in and produce a fight scene for film productions. Instruction will focus on not only performing the actions necessary and the safe execution of movement on set, but also choreographing fight scenes. Lectures with practical, hands-on, in-class assignments will emphasize student retention of ideas and best practices. This course is intended for individuals looking to train for fight scene performing on camera or on stage. Individuals may or may not have experience. The goal of the course is to take novice actors and hone their skills in unarmed combat from a fighter’s perspective. In addition this course will enable students to value their work, to enjoy the experience of co-creation with partners, and to troubleshoot problems as a team player.
January 10 – February 28, 2023
Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30pm, 3 hours, 8 sessions
Lucy Huie Hall, Jonesboro
233JFLM500
https://aceware.clayton.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=233JFLM500
May 18 – July 6, 2023
Thursday, 6:30-9:30pm, 3 hours, 8 sessions
Lucy Huie Hall, Jonesboro
234JFLM500
https://aceware.clayton.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=234JFLM500
Script Supervision
Script supervisors create and review all pre-production paperwork, in addition to their real job: watching every move actors make and listening to every word they speak. If takes don’t match, editors can’t edit. Production has wasted time and money…mainly money. Eliminating such waste is the reason script supervisors are among the privileged few who can immediately approach directors and cinematographers and sound mixers on set. If you are detail oriented, work well under pressure, and keep cool while your comrades are slowly losing their minds, you qualify. (Internships available as CSU productions demand.)
January 11 – March 1, 2023
Wednesdays, 6:30-9:30pm, 3 hours, 8 sessions
Lucy Huie Hall, Jonesboro
233JFLM460
https://aceware.clayton.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=233JFLM460
May 15 – June 12, 2023
Mon/Wed, 6:30-9:30pm, 3 hours, 8 sessions
Lucy Huie Hall, Jonesboro
234JFLM460
https://aceware.clayton.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=234JFLM460
Voiceover Basics: Target Your Audience
Assessing needs, the script’s needs, the audience’s needs and your employer’s needs, is a balancing act. Making everyone happy demands compromise. Students will analyze and perform short commercial scripts for content and affect, targeting their purpose as interpreter, presenter, and performer. In addition, this course, through weekly recording of “real” commercials, will introduce students to proper vocal delivery and improved fluency.
January 23 – March 20, 2023
Mondays, 6:30-9:30pm, 3 hours, 8 sessions
Lucy Huie Hall, Jonesboro
233JFLM535
https://aceware.clayton.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=233JFLM535
June 7 – August 2, 2023
Wednesdays, 6:30-9:30pm, 3 hours, 8 sessions
Lucy Huie Hall, Jonesboro
234JFLM535
https://aceware.clayton.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=234JFLM535
Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding balances what you need, from whom you need it, and how much time you have to invest. Your selection always depends on which way you want to go. To help refine your options, this course explores the types of crowdfunding sites available (who is their audience?), their fees and policies (how much do they cost?), and their typical posting needs (how much time do you have?). Potential funding platforms—like Kickstarter, Patreon, CircleUp, Causes, and LendingClub—form the basis of examination and discussion. Students will conduct their own needs assessment and match what they have with what they want. They will investigate various platforms’ potentials and pit-falls and feel more able to make informed decisions.
February 6 – April 3, 2023
Mondays, 6:30-9:30pm, 3 hours, 8 sessions
Lucy Huie Hall, Jonesboro
233JFLM112
https://aceware.clayton.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=233JLFM112
Marketing Yourself Effectively
Self-promotion is hard. Writing query letters is harder. Developing a bio statement is hardest. But all need to be done. Taking seriously the craft of self-marketing, this course assists students with creating resumes and business letters, developing marketing reels, and tracking submissions and applications. In addition, special lecturers share best practices for self-employment obligations like taxes and insurance, deciding on an LLC, an agent, a manager, sound legal advice. This course helps self-employed creatives manage life a little easier.
March 2 – April 27, 2023
Thursdays, 6:30-9:30pm, 3 hours, 8 sessions
Lucy Huie Hall, Jonesboro
233JFLM490
https://aceware.clayton.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=233JFLM490
July 11 – August 3, 2023
Tues/Thurs, 6:30-9:30pm, 3 hours, 8 sessions
Lucy Huie Hall, Jonesboro
241JFLM490
https://aceware.clayton.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=241JFLM490
Makeup for Film
Grunge, glamour, and injuries. The art and application of makeup help actors create characters who look the part. Students in this course consider what looks natural under hot lights and what looks supernatural under moonlight. In addition, how do localized prosthetics work? How do bruises change over time? And if a scene calls for a variety of actors, how can the makeup artist help the camera lens the scene? Students will supply their own kit (or purchase from FDMC for an additional fee).
March 14 – May 2, 2023
Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30pm, 3 hours, 8 sessions
Lucy Huie Hall, Jonesboro
233JFLM480
https://aceware.clayton.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=233JFLM480
June 6 – June 29, 2023
Tues/Thurs, 6:30-9:30, 3 hours, 8 sessions
Lucy Huie Hall, Jonesboro
234JFLM480
https://aceware.clayton.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=234JFLM480
Writing Documentaries
It is not an interview, but it is. It is not history, but it is. It is not a story, but it is. It can be a life’s history—how personality and time intersect. But what makes for an evocative biography? And things happen. Things that excite, amuse, annoy, provoke. How do writers translate those events into an experience equally compelling to others? Certainly, a daily dairy is not interesting: it is a list. But making those daily details reveal to an audience the importance of an individual or an event is important. So, in writing a documentary, what constitutes proof? What is just enough information v. too much v. not enough? Students will examine PSAs, news stories, and short documentaries to determine what makes for a dynamic analysis of a person or situation that motivates its audience to act. The point: to write a documentary script of your own.
March 14 – May 2, 2023
Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30pm, 3 hours, 8 sessions
Lucy Huie Hall, Jonesboro
233JFLM473
https://aceware.clayton.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=233JFLM473
Film Production Management
What do assistant directors, production managers, and producers do? How do they set budgets, keep track of costs, measure time spent, and manage resources? And what are a production’s legal parameters and ramifications? Welcome to a crash course in the details that give a production legs and keep it moving forward.
March 15 – May 3, 2023
Wednesdays, 6:30-9:30pm, 3 hours, 8 sessions
Lucy Huie Hall, Jonesboro
233JFLM465
https://aceware.clayton.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=233JFLM465
July 10 – August 2, 2023
Mon/Wed, 6:30-9:30pm, 3 hours, 8 sessions
Lucy Huie Hall, Jonesboro
241JFLM465
https://aceware.clayton.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=241JFLM465
Voiceover: Intermediate
Building on the foundation of Voiceover Basics, this intermediate course will focus on the seven attitudes of voiceover delivery, increasing recording time to develop a deeper understanding of the various voiceover genres, and investigate the strategies for breaking into those particular genres. Discussions and exercises will emphasize proper etiquette for soliciting agents and private clients, audition prep, and copy analysis. Students will also develop their own marketing plans and branding packages: developing a rate sheet, building a website (logo, theme colors, and slogans), and shopping for gear in order to prepare of the competitive voice over market.
April 3 – May 22, 2023
Mondays, 6:30-9:30pm, 3 hours, 8 sessions
Lucy Huie Hall, Jonesboro
234JFLM531
https://aceware.clayton.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=234JFLM531
Film and Digital Media: Summer/Fall 2023
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