Film & Media
ASSOCIATE IN APPLIED SCIENCE
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES
This program prepares you to become an innovative professional filmmaker with a focus on developing your own artistic vision. An interdisciplinary collaboration between the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the School of Art and Design, the program blends academic film study with hands-on filmmaking and related design disciplines. You’ll explore genres and techniques in narrative, documentary, experimental, and video installation. With sharp visual literacy and well-honed communication skills at its core, Film and Media serves the wide swath of industries that depend on the moving image: feature films, documentaries, online digital media, television, advertising, and new media delivery systems. These classes prepare students for their thesis film projects, shown at FIT’s annual film festival.
COURSES INCLUDE
Sound Design for Film, Producing for Film, Post Production Digital FX, Introduction to Television Studies, Women Make Movies: A History of Women’s Filmmaking, Fans and Fandom in the Internet Age, Digital Storytelling: Creating a Web Series, Sexuality in Cinema
STUDY ABROAD OPPORTUNITIES
Semester program in Rome; credit-bearing summer internships in Berlin and Hong Kong
TYPICAL INTERNSHIPS
Robot Fondue, Vice Media, Digital Arts, ESPN, DuArt Media, Rock Shrimp Productions, Untitled Entertainment, Fader, Filmmaker, Tribeca Film Festival
CAREER OUTCOMES
Graduates are prepared to work in many aspects of production, including as production assistants, cinematographers, editors, screenwriters, producers, independent filmmakers, archivists, film restorers, and film historians, or to enter a graduate program.
A still from Wild Hair, a 10-minute film directed by Kevin Shepherd and Thomas Younghans and edited by Kiana MacClellan; all are 2018 graduates.
Students with an AAS in Film and Media may apply to this BS program. Students with other AAS degrees may require additional coursework. Learn more about 2+2