Palmer: Hello, my name is Jeffrey Palmer and I’m an associate professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts. I teach film and video production.
Kim: My name is Doorim Kim and I am a new lecturer in the Department of Preforming and Media Arts. I also teach film and video production. This year I am helping expand the PMA Film curriculum, offering two courses: Media Production Laboratory and Cinematography and Visual Storytelling.
Palmer: This is an amazing time to be a part of film at PMA as we are expanding the curriculum, adding new instructors, and collaborating across the whole department. Film falls under the PMA rubric for creative authorship, which develops students' writing, creative, and technical skills needed to create time-based work such as short films. We design courses that explore all aspects of production needed to be an independent filmmaker or to prepare students to enter the film industry as screenwriters, producers, cinematographers, and directors.
Kim: The Media Production Laboratory will be a flagship course for PMA, offered every semester and will provide the technical basis for all students interested the film program. The course is a series of self-contained lecture/workshops on various topics in the production of film and video on-set and on-location. The workshops will be hands on experience with cameras, lighting and sound equipment, exploring the technique of cinematography as well as, lighting, sound, and grip techniques for the studio and in the field. If interested, students may continue their focus on my mid-level courses. For example, Cinematography and Visual Storytelling.
Palmer: Film and Video Production 1 examines three areas of production to create a short films aspects of pre-production, such as scripting and storyboarding; production, such as cinematography and set design; and post-production, such as editing and sound design. We break each of the skillsets down into a formula that takes a story and makes into cinema. Whether you are a future documentary filmmaker, narrative filmmaker, or screenwriter, film at PMA will provide a slate of courses that will allow you the freedom to create in this exciting and energetic field of study.