School of Motion Pictures & Television

As a  director, you’ll drive the vision, lead the crew, interpret the script, guide performances, design the shots, and shape the final cut. You’ll graduate with a portfolio of film festival work.

Producers oversee it all, steering projects from development through production, postproduction, and marketing. You’ll master the skills to budget and schedule, while gaining hands-on experience producing films, series, music videos, and commercials.

Weave ideas into stories. Create characters that stay with you, dialogue that rings true, and plot lines that pull audiences in. Collaborate on set with directors, actors, and producers while learning the full production process. Watch your scripts come to life on our soundstages, and graduate with a portfolio of television and feature work that showcases your voice.

Paint with light and shadow, capturing a film’s essence through the lens. Collaborate with directors to design visual styles, shots, and lighting, using the latest digital and film camera technology. Work in every role on a camera crew. Shoot films, commercials, and more to build a reel that showcases your vision.

Blend footage, sound, and effects into a seamless story. You’ll work with the latest software and AI technology to cut narratives, documentaries, music videos, and commercials. You’ll spend time on set, collaborating with directors and producers, and graduate with a reel that proves your storytelling skills.

Craft the visual worlds that define films and TV by designing and dressing sets, choosing locations, and selecting props that bring stories and characters to life. Gain experience on sets for films, commercials, and music videos, building a portfolio of imagery that captures your creative vision.

You dream it, we build it. We have eight soundstages, fully equipped with lighting grids. Standing sets include: a bar, restaurant, coffee shop, loft apartment, homes with bedrooms, kitchens, and bathrooms.

Our black box theater, located in the main entertainment schools building South of Market, is used for teaching and incubating one-person shows.

Our camera room offers equipment to students to use on campus or on location. We stock lighting equipment, digital and film cameras, and grip and electric equipment.

Our wardrobe room contains hundreds of articles of clothing—everything from contemporary to period fashions. We have an extensive collection of shoes, hats, streetwear, and evening wear. Open to all student filmmakers, the wardrobe room gives you the ability to dress the cast of your film in the style of your dreams.

We have over 21 Mac editing bays and three private video editing suites available for student use, all equipped with Avid Media Composer, DaVinci Resolve, and the full Adobe Suite, including Premiere Pro and After Effects. We also have two private audio editing suites running Pro Tools and the Adobe Suite.

Spaceship. Luxury loft. Detective’s office. Whatever you’re shooting, we’ve got the gear—sofas, sconces, rugs, artwork, hand props, relics. Whatever you need is already here.

Flats, doors, windows: all pre-built and ready to shape. Our construction shop is stocked with saws, sanders, tools, and lumber. If we can sketch it, we can build it for you.