The video production program offers a major with specializations in either narrative fiction or documentary.All students take a core set of requirements with subject areas that include camerawork, audio, lighting, and digital editing as well as techniques in narrative and documentary production. The core also covers theoretical approaches through courses on video's historical background, analysis of television's role in modern society, and the current convergence of moving image media with all aspects of communication such as the internet and interactive media. Advanced courses concentrate on the development of personal styles of video creation through more sophisticated techniques and screenings and discussions of contemporary aesthetic approaches to the medium. Seniors have the opportunity to gain practical experience and entry-level professional contacts through the internship program, which has direct access to a vast assortment of TV, film, radio, and multimedia production companies in northern New Jersey and the New York metropolitan region.
The video production major is offered through the Department of Arts, Culture, and Media (ACM). ACM houses programs and/or majors in art, graphic design, art history, media studies (with majors in journalism and video production), music, and theater. Each major includes an ACM core sequence requirement. Taking advantage of the range of disciplines in ACM and the campus mission to engage with its community, the core combines an integrated sequence of classes, shaped in large part by projects drawn from the urban region surrounding the university. The sequence consists of three classes:
Introduction to Arts, Media, and Culture,
a class designated by each program that
combines interdisciplinary pedagogy with a student's major, and Advanced
Seminar in Arts, Media, and Culture.
