Digital Filmmaking 211

The Mason Gross School of the Arts offers the bachelor of fine arts (B.F.A.) degree in digital filmmaking.

The Mason Gross digital filmmaking major offers students an innovative program with individualized training in fiction and documentary film production taught by industry professionals.

The Mason Gross digital filmmaking interdisciplinary model is designed to establish marketable skills in the emerging field of digital communication blended with a wide array of liberal arts electives. Here we create technically astute filmmakers who are also intellectually informed artists. Students are trained in all aspects of their craft in both fiction and documentary production by working with professional filmmakers with a track record of producing award-winning feature and short documentaries that reach broad audiences.

Digital filmmaking at Mason Gross trains students in all aspects of film production, from research and treatments to cinematography, lighting, field production, directing, script writing and story boarding, editing, and post production.

The Mason Gross digital filmmaking pedagogy interweaves documentary and fiction with emerging film technologies and platforms, while providing students with a wide array of professional, marketable skills. Upon completion of the B.F.A. in digital filmmaking, students demonstrate technical proficiency, narrative film form, film production as educational research/team collaborative skills, creative expression through production oriented classes, and management of complex projects all within a firm grounding in the humanities.