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Film & TV Industry Essentials
Film & TV Industry Essentials is a course for individuals interested in developing an understanding of the entertainment industry, its scope and breadth, and how all the parts work together while identifying the best career path for them. Students explore media creation and the production processes used for film, television, and emerging media formats through a sequence of activities and assignments that builds skills in and understanding of the basics, including funding, scripts, directing, production, and marketing. Students will ultimately understand how to develop effective communication strategies geared towards practitioners and decision-makers throughout the field.
Film & TV Industry Essentials consists of five course modules:
The Fundamentals of Film
The Fundamentals of Television
From Script to Wrap
Post-Production and the Production Business
Marketing and Distribution
The course is built on video lectures by faculty and practitioners. We use a two-camera setup, but for each course we filmed in a manner appropriate to the overall course concept. For this course, I decided to lean into the idea of “cinema as a secular church” and comparisons between theater and cathedral, opting to eliminate any visual distraction around the talent, isolating thier expert sermons on the topic.
Courses use the LearnDash LMS. Left-hand navigation leave the majority of the screen free for the video or other course content.
Though focusing on the singular figure of each speaker, the course content is elucidated and expanded with scenes from the works being discussed and illustrative B-roll.
Original and subject-area specific definitions of key terms are available by mouseover throughout the course.
Teaching points that require more explanation than possible in B-roll receive on-page support as text, image, or infographics.
Teaching points that require more explanation than possible in B-roll receive on-page support as text, image, or infographics.
Teaching points that require more explanation than possible in B-roll receive on-page support as text, image, or infographics.
For each module, I designed 1-2 activities based on a real-world skill needed within the profession, creating templates and examples for the students as needed. These activities build toward a final capstone project.
For each module, I designed 1-2 activities based on a real-world skill needed within the profession, creating templates and examples for the students as needed. These activities build toward a final capstone project.
For each module, I designed 1-2 activities based on a real-world skill needed within the profession, creating templates and examples for the students as needed. These activities build toward a final capstone project.
A well-researched interactive timeline gives the student extensive historical setting for the industry and helps contextualize the milestones discussed in the video lectures.
A well-researched interactive timeline gives the student extensive historical setting for the industry and helps contextualize the milestones discussed in the video lectures.
A well-researched interactive timeline gives the student extensive historical setting for the industry and helps contextualize the milestones discussed in the video lectures.
Knowledge-check quizzes might have a bad reputation, but any moment of questioning is also a teaching opportunity. They are used throughout to A) reinforce needed factual knowledge, B) encourage learners to consider points of differentiation other than presented in the course materials, or C) ask learners to extrapolate from what they’ve learned to new situations.