Media Development Certificate of Achievement

Program Description

This certificate is designed to prepare students for career paths in story development and production planning for film, tv, and media. The emphasis is in writing and production planning.

The pathway below represents an efficient and effective course taking sequence for this program.  Individual circumstances might require some changes to this pathway.  It is always recommended that you meet with an academic counselor to develop a personalized educational plan.

Division

Arts & Humanities

Department

Film, Television, and Media

Career and Academic Pathway (CAP)

Arts, Communication, Design

Program Learning Outcomes

  1. Create an online portfolio of work to demonstrate entry-level skills.

  2. Write a resume for entry level employment in media, television, or film development.

  3. Write scripts for all forms of media content.

  4. Produce a concept pitch for a media project.

  5. Qualify for entry-level work in media, television, or film development.

Program Map

GE General Education
O Available Online
Program Requirement
P Program Prerequisites

1st Semester

12 units
FTVM 102 - Introduction to Film and Media Aesthetics

This course introduces the close analysis of film and television and examines the broad questions of form and content, aesthetics and meaning, and history and culture. The course also explores the diverse possibilities presented by the cinematic art form through an examination of a wide variety of productions, national cinemas, and film movements. The topics include modes of production, narrative and non-narrative forms, visual design, editing, sound, genre, ideology and critical analysis.

Course Details:

  1. Departmental Advisory: ENGL 101
  2. Departmental Advisory: ENGL 101H
FTVM 120 - Introduction to Screen, Media, and Broadcast Writing

This course is designed to teach the student the basic tools of scriptwriting for film, television, broadcast, and new media, focusing on the aesthetic and commercial demands of each.

Course Details:

FTVM 121 - Intermediate Screen, Media, and Broadcast Writing

This course is designed to provide intermediate level training in skills required to create scripts for film, television or electronic media. Techniques of scriptwriting and marketing are explored. An emphasis on proper formatting, technical, conceptual, and styllistic issues and techniques of scriptwriting and marketing are explored.

Course Details:

  1. Departmental Advisory: FTVM 120
  2. Departmental Advisory: ENGL 101
  3. Departmental Advisory: ENGL 101H
FTVM 122 or FTVM 130

This course provides instruction and practice in acting and directing for television and film, including voice, character development, and creating a visual style.

Course Details:

OR

This course is designed for students who are interested in transforming a narrative concept into a practical production. By viewing, discussing, planning, and developing stories. Film, television, and media students will learn skills necessary to produce a film or video in a TV Studio and location environment. Topics include studio signal flow, directing, theory and operation of camera and audio equipment, switcher operation, fundamentals of lighting, graphics, video control and video recording and real-time video production.

Course Details:

  1. Departmental Advisory: ENGL 101
  2. Departmental Advisory: ENGL 101H