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DIGITAL FILMMAKING PROGRAM
1-YEAR INTENSIVE
Fall 2010
Program Start: September 20, 2010
Tuition $26,900
The One-Year Digital Filmmaking Program is an intensive, hands-on program designed to prepare students for a career in the motion picture industry. This program teaches the art and craft of independent filmmaking by using an innovative project-based curriculum taught by award-winning filmmakers. Students create five of their own films and crew alongside professionals on a feature-length motion picture.
Over the course of the year, each student will create:
- One 2- to 3-minute visual montage
- One 3- to 5-minute narrative fiction film
- One 3- to 5-minute documentary film
- One 30-second commercial with special effects
- One 8- to12-minute thesis movie in any genre
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- Crew on an additional 25+ student films
- Crew with professionals on a feature-length motion picture
Students learn the art and craft of filmmaking and work in a variety of genres – fiction, commercials and documentary. The class is structured around small production teams in which students produce their own movies and crew on team member projects. In this way, students get personalized instruction, maximum experience with the equipment, and create material for their demo reels.
SFSDF is proud to be a small school with only two new class starts a year - March and September. Unlike other film schools that have a “conveyor belt” mentality and start a new class every month, our class sizes are limited in order to offer students maximum access to both equipment and instructors. Our mission is not to turn out large numbers of students with little knowledge – it is to train a small group of passionate students and prepare them for entering the professional world of filmmaking.
SFSDF student movie projects are strategically designed to allow students to build their skills in an organic and increasingly challenging way. After completing their own film projects movies and crewing on as many as 25 of their teammates movies, student have the skills and confidence necessary to crew on a feature-length digital motion picture. SFSDF is the only film school in the country offering students this valuable and unique experience.
On the movie set, students fill in key crew positions and continue to develop their craft by working side-by-side with professional crew members from San Francisco, New York and LA. For each production, students choose a department to work in and receive credit on the finished film. This on-set experience allows students to gain critical real-world knowledge and invaluable contacts in the movie business.
Students that successfully complete this program receive the three essential tools for launching their career – a demo reel built from their best work, motion picture credits including work on a feature film, and contacts in the industry. People enter the filmmaking program at SFSDF as students and leave as professionals.
The SFSDF Digital Filmmaking Program is offered concurrently at two different times, daytime and evening. The evening schedule helps to meet the needs of working students. Both the evening and daytime classes offer the same course of study with the same number of hours.
Daytime, M-Th (10a-4p)
Evening, M-Th (6:30p-10p) and Sat (10a-6p)
Because the curriculum is project-based, during certain phases of film production students will be working beyond the regular class schedule.
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE:
SFSDF has a trained financial advisor on staff ready to work with you, one-on-one, to help assess your tuition options. Call 415.824.7000 speak to a school representative directly.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Fall 2010
Program Start: September 20, 2010
Tuition $26,900
APPLICATION PROCESS:
CLICK
HERE TO BEGIN
For more information or questions please
call Admissions at 415.824.7000
DIGITAL FILMMAKING WORKSHOPS
The Digital Filmmaking Workshops are five week, hands-on classes designed to introduce students to the art and craft of filmmaking. These workshops are an excellent exploration into the language of cinema and the tools of digital filmmaking. Each workshop student writes, produces, directs and edits their own short film and crews on classmates' productions. Students learn fundamental digital filmmaking skills using professional equipment. Students produce their work using Sony HD cameras; professional lighting, grip and sound equipment; and state-of-the-art sounds stages. Students edit their films using the latest Apple computers and Final Cut Pro HD. At the end of each workshop, students premiere their films in front of family and friends.
FALL FILMMAKING WORKSHOPS
Our popular and often sold-out filmmaking workshop covers both documentary and fiction filmmaking. As in all of our workshops, each student writes, produces, directs, and edits their own work.
Update: We have combined the fiction and documentary workshops to adjust for demand. You can make either a documentary or fiction film in either workshop.
FALL 2010
Fall 1, Fiction + Documentary Workshop
Dates: October 4th – November 7th
Schedule: M-Th, 7 – 10pm + Sat, 10am - 4pm
Tuition: $2,950
Fall 2, Fiction + Documentary Workshop
Dates: November 8th – December 12th
Schedule: M-Th, 7 – 10pm + Sat, 10am - 4pm
Tuition: $2,950
Sample 5-week Schedule*
Week 1
HD Camera Fundamentals/ Intro to Storytelling / Pitching Ideas / Lighting for Motion Pictures
Week 2
Script or Doc Proposals Due / Producing 101/ Essentials of Directing / Location Sound / Tech Rehearsal
Week 3
Movie Production
Week 4
Final Cut Pro Basics / Principles of Digital Editing / Fiction or Doc Editing / Editing Labs
Week 5
Rough Cut Due / Audio Post-production & Music/ Creating Titles / Output to QT & iDVD / Movie Premiere
*Scheduling is subject to change due to holidays, etc.
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
SFSDF has a trained financial advisor on staff ready to work with you, one-on-one, to help assess your tuition options. Call 415.824.7000 to speak to a school representative directly.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE FINANCIAL INFORMATION
APPLICATION PROCESS
CLICK
HERE TO BEGIN
For more information or questions please call Admissions at 415.824.7000
Thank you and we look forward to seeing your movie!
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