Film
Film and Video Production: Making Movies Under the Dome
Film and video production can take many forms, from television news production, to commercial production, to documentary and feature filmmaking. At Notre Dame, the Film, Television, and Theatre Department teaches production as an art form. Not only do we prepare undergraduates to enter the industry with a solid technical background, but most importantly, we challenge students to be creative, to infuse their work with a personal vision that is characteristic of all artists.
The production process is communal. No one person can produce a film. It’s a group effort, and the Film and Video Production Track of Summer Scholars allows students to work closely with their peers as crew members and creative collaborators, learning from each other and making friendships which last well beyond their two weeks on campus.
Students will learn the history of motion pictures, study the craft of filmmaking, and actually produce and direct their own short film which will be screened at the end of Summer Scholars inside the state-of-the-art THX Browning Cinema right on the Notre Dame campus.
Academic Director
Ted Mandell (M.A., University of Iowa, B.A. University of Notre Dame) has taught film & video production at Notre Dame for the past 19 years. He specializes in digital post-production, and has served as editor for many independent documentary and commercial projects, as well as an online editor, an audio mixer, and a post-production supervisor for literally hundreds of student films. He is in charge of the annual Notre Dame Student Film Festival and also a pens a regular column on all things media-related for the Indianapolis Star. He is also the author of the recently released multimedia book Heart Stoppers and Hail Marys: The Greatest College Football Finishes (since 1970).
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