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School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) - Film, Video, New Media, and AnimationStudying film at SAIC can be a challenging choice.Pros 1. amazing facilities and equipment. (it's a private art school-they are rich) a.Red Scarlet and Steadicam for several higher-level classes...
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Northwestern University - School of CommunicationGood for film theory, not so much for production*Please take this with a grain of salt, as I went to NU over a decade ago. While I was there: Classes in film theory and screenwriting were great...
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Columbia College Chicago - Cinema Art + Science (B.A. & B.F.A.)Good undergrad craft schoolI'd like to preface this by saying I graduated a while ago. It's possible that the school has changed significantly since then so take what I say...
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University of Chicago - Department of Cinema and Media StudiesTop-notch AcademicsIn my opinion, the University of Chicago's Cinema & Media Studies program is one of the most outstanding and underrated programs out there. I...- jn0pe
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Columbia College Chicago - Cinema Art + Science (B.A. & B.F.A.)CCC is a great film school for many reasons: different levels of courses allows you to explore your preference for filmmaking step by step as well...
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Great filmmakers start with a strong, independent vision, but bringing it to the big screen is all about collaboration. This core major of Columbia’s Cinema Art + Science program trains innovative and creative professionals ready for any production set in the world. You’ll learn the fundamentals of film production and choose specializations including Directing, Cinematography, Animation, Screenwriting, Documentary, Editing, Producing and Cinema Studies.
The BFA is designed specifically as a...
- Degrees Offered
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- 4 Year B.A.
- 4 Year B.F.A.
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- Animation & Digital Arts
- Cinematography
- Creative Producing
- Directing
- Documentary Filmmaking
- Editing
- Film & Television Production
- Film Studies
- Producing
- Production Design
- Screenwriting
- Sound Design
- Yearly Tuition
- $40k to $50k
- Deadline Details
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May 1
Students in the School of Cinematic Arts have access to the latest in digital media production equipment plus state of the art audio and video editing software not only on campus but at our 10,000 foot soundstage on the Cinespace Chicago Film Studio lot where we teach classes alongside network television and Hollywood motion picture projects filming in Chicago.
- Degrees Offered
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- 4 Year B.A.
- 4 Year B.F.A.
- Concentrations
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- Animation & Digital Arts
- Documentary Filmmaking
- Film & Television Production
- Producing
- Screenwriting
- Yearly Tuition
- $30k to $40k
- Application Deadline Types
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- Early Action
- Regular Decision
- Early Action Deadline
- Nov 15, 2021
As an undergraduate in Radio/Television/Film, you’ll become fluent in both media production and analysis.
You’ll receive hands-on training in creating, editing and producing innovative media—films, computer animation, and video installations. Student work regularly wins awards in the U.S. and abroad.
You’ll examine media’s role in cultures around the world—past, present and future. You’ll study the history of cinema and broadcast media as you study the social, economic and political...
- Degrees Offered
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- 4 Year B.F.A.
- Concentrations
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- Documentary Filmmaking
- Film & Television Production
- Interactive Entertainment & Games
- Screenwriting
- Yearly Tuition
- $40k to $50k
- Application Deadline Types
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- Early Decision
- Regular Decision
- Transfer Deadline
Regular Decision Application Deadline: Jan 3, 2022
- Transfer Deadline
- Mar 15, 2022
The department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation (FVNMA) reaches beyond conventional approaches to media, investigating the possibilities of nonfiction and narrative film and video, moving-image installation, analog and digital animation, interactive art, VR, AR and web-based projects and additionally offering seminar courses in media preservation, curatorial practices, and media art histories. FVNMA students often invent interdisciplinary pathways for the production of hybrid works...
- Degrees Offered
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- 4 Year B.F.A.
- Concentrations
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- Animation & Digital Arts
- Film & Television Production
- Yearly Tuition
- $50k to $60k
- Tuition Detail
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$1740/credit hour
- Application Deadline Types
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- Early Action
- Priority Deadline
- Regular Decision
- Spring Deadline
- Early Action Deadline
- Dec 15, 2021
Regular Decision Application Deadline: Jan 15, 2022
- Spring Admission Deadline
- Nov 1, 2021
- Transfer Deadline
- Nov 15, 2021
We offer an interdisciplinary media arts education that is grounded in and leaps off the art of the still and moving image. We believe in a rigorous education whose goal is to produce critically aware, historically grounded, globally conscious, and skilled media makers who are unafraid of independent thinking and new media technologies, and seek to make meaningful and powerful interventions in the world.
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- 4 Year B.A.
- Concentrations
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- Animation & Digital Arts
- Documentary Filmmaking
- Film Studies
- Screenwriting
- Yearly Tuition
- $30k to $40k
THE FILMMAKING YOU LOVE, PLUS ADVANCED POST-PRODUCTION SKILLS TO OPEN EVEN MORE DOORS.
In today's increasingly media-focused world, opportunities for film and broadcast professionals abound--and, for those with strong post-production skills, the options can be even broader. In Tribeca Flashpoint's major in Post-Production, students learn marketable post-production skills, in addition to advanced film production and editing, sound design, location audio, digital distribution, film...
- Degrees Offered
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- 3 Year A.S.
- 4 Year B.S.
- Concentrations
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- Editing
- Yearly Tuition
- $20k to $30k
For more than a century, and across widely different cultures, film has been the primary medium for storytelling, for depicting and exploring the world, and for engaging and shaping the human senses and emotions, memory and imagination. We live in a time in which cinema, the theatrical exhibition of films to a paying public, is no longer the primary venue in which films are consumed. But even as it is being transformed by television, video, and digital media, cinema seems to survive, and...
- Degrees Offered
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- 4 Year B.A.
- Concentrations
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- Film & Television Production
- Film Studies
- Yearly Tuition
- $50k to $60k
- Tuition Detail
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$57,642
- Deadline Details
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November 1
For example:
- American Film Institute (AFI) - Directing
- USC - Film and Television Production (MFA)
- Columbia University - Screenwriting/Directing (M.F.A.)
- NYU - Tisch Film and Television (M.F.A.)