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Producing

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Create Your Future in Film

Discover how to turn ideas into movies and become a catalyst for creative projects through our film producing concentration. You’ll learn the various roles of a producer and how to bring an entire story to life. If you’re entrepreneurial-minded and have a natural talent for leadership, producing is the concentration for you.

Earn your Bachelor of Science in Film Production. As a student, you’ll be exposed to every stage of film production through a theoretical and gear-centric curriculum.

Our Bachelor of Science in Film Production Degree with a concentration in Producing is 120 credit hours and 36 months in length.
Each class is studied exclusively during a four-week period allowing students to focus on one particular subject at a time.

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Featured Classes

Production Design

The devil is in the set details. This course covers both location filming and stage work, including camera angles, set spotting, wild walls, backing designs, lighting, and rigging. Students learn how to anticipate and troubleshoot problems that may arise during the construction of sets while designing them. Upon completion of this course, students will have a solid foundation for production design principles.

Art of Creative Producing

Sell the big picture to the studios. This course exposes students to the challenges of producing from the inception and sale of a project through pre-production, production and post-production all the way to final distribution. Students learn essential producer functions such as publicity, marketing, film distribution and management. This course develops the soft and hard skills needed to excel in a producing role.

Production Management

Explore the world of line producing, production management, and the infrastructure of various forms of production. Students learn how to plan and execute a successful production in its entirety. Students expand their understanding of how to breakdown a script, the scheduling process, budgeting, casting, crewing and location scouting in this course.

Student TechKit^®

You’ll use the same equipment used by the pros. We outfit you with a retina display MacBook laptop loaded with software including: Avid Media Composer, Final Draft, Movie Magic Budgeting, Movie Magic Scheduling, Adobe Creative Cloud and Microsoft Office.*

*Specific types of gear and gear info subject to change without notice.

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Not Your Average Classroom

Take a peek inside our film sets and production stages. You will work with industry-experienced faculty in a hands-on studio environment and learn the technical skills needed to excel in the field.

Step onto our sets and get a first-hand experience of our
Multiple Soundstages • Green Screen Stage • Dolby-Approved Dubbing Stage • 300-Seat Movie Theater • Avid Editing Lab and more!

Did you know that we offer daily tours of our campus?

Alumni Success

Join the ever-growing list of alumni who are shaping the film industry with their contributions to the craft.

The legacies our alumni leave behind inspire future generations of students to pave their own path to success in the entertainment industry. Here are just some of the esteemed alumni who’ve worked on award-winning productions in film, TV and the commercial industry.

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Kyle Newacheck

With more than 80 combined directing, writing and producing credits spanning the past decade and a half, Kyle has made a name for himself in the comedy world. Whether you’ve seen his work on popular TV shows like Workaholics, Parks and Recreation or Community, you’ll find yourself doing one thing while watching—laughing.

Cinematographer Brandon Trost

Brandon Trost

With a thriving career in cinematography, Brandon Trost is part of the new generation of filmmakers in Hollywood. His contributions to popular feature films like This Is The End, The Disaster Artist, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, and Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile have earned him acclaim in the entertainment industry.

Hannah Lux Davis

For more than a decade, Hannah Lux Davis has transformed artists’ music into visual masterpieces. Hannah is an award-winning music video director known for her work with chart-topping pop icons like Ariana Grande, Halsey, Demi Lovato, Nicki Minaj and Kacey Musgraves.

Martin Pensa

Martin is the first alumni to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Achievement in Film Editing for his editing work on Dallas Buyers Club. That year, Dallas Buyers Club won three Oscars including Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Makeup and Hairstyling.

Kevin Otte

Boasting more than 90 credits for work on professional sets for feature films, reality TV shows and web series, honors graduate Kevin Otte has built a Hollywood career as a freelance production coordinator and production manager.

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