Directing
The potential to learn Directing is a reason why many students elect to attend film school or a college with a program in cinema production. No such educational institution can exist without a clearly defined and strongly operative program and course outline for directors. Columbia College Hollywood is no exception – the College has been training directors for both film and television since its incepetion in 1952.
As with all emphases, all students must take all core classes in order to earn a degree and all necessary pre-requisites in order to enroll in courses designated as an “emphasis” course. In the case of the Directing emphasis, this includes Directing 1, in which students have a hands-on experience as they learn the basics of the craft and shoot a short script provided by the instructor.
All students must take Directing 1.
Required
Additionally, each student who chooses to emphasize Directing must take these five (5) courses:
(F111A) Directing: From Casting through Rehearsals
(F210) Directing 2
(F425) Directing Actors
(F345) Visual Production Design
(V103) TV Directing & Producing 1
Electives
In addition, each student choosing a Directing emphasis must take three (3) of the following:
(GH151) Storyboard Design
(F310) Directing 3
(F132) Art Direction
(F133A) The Studio Production: Filming on Film
(GH255) Script Analysis 2
(F317) Production for New Media
(F315) Navigating New Media
(GH253) Hollywood Business Practices & History
(F420) Film Financing
(V118) TV Commercial Production
(V318) Music Video Production
(F131) Documentary Production Workshop
(GS256) Entertainment Law
(F231) Experimental Video Workshop
(GH166) Art of the Pitch
(F221) Post Production Process
(F144) Scoring Your Soundtrack
(GH326) Comedy Improvisation or (GH327) Acting Scene Workshop or (GH226) Advanced Acting Workshop
(V320) Hip Hop Production
(F309) Directing Comedy
(F308) Directing Action
(F266) Mockumentary!
(F427) Business Plans for Filmmakers
(F320) Viral Videos Unmasked
(F234) VFX Production for the 21st Century
(GH238) Theatre Production Workshop
All students choosing to work towards a combined Cinema-Television Bachelors degree must take Introduction to TV Production, which is a core class for combined majors, and the six (6) courses designated for those choosing a Directing Cinema-TV emphasis:
Required
(F111A) Directing: From Casting through Rehearsals
(F210) Directing 2
(F425) Directing Actors
(F345) Visual Production Design
(V103) TV Directing & Producing 1
(V201) TV Essentials
Electives
Combined Cinema-Television Directing emphasis students must fulfill the elective requirements of the Cinema Major PLUS take two (2) of the following TV elective emphasis courses:
(V330) CCH: The TV Series (can be taken twice for elective credit, three times total)
(V350) Shooting the Sitcom
(V221) Shooting the Live TV Drama
(V235) Reality TV Production
(V209) Non-Fiction Television Production
(V207) TV Documentary Production
(V103) TV Directing & Producing 2
