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DatesSummer 2008May 27 - June 27 Directing
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Applications are being taken for Summer & Fall 2008: Information Sessions: Next sessions will be held in October 2008 1104 S. Wabash Don Smith dsmith@colum.edu |
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Semester in Los Angeles is a five-week, immersion program in which the student maintains full-time student status (twelve to sixteen credit hours) through an intensive educational experience. The contact hours a student would normally achieve in fifteen weeks is compressed into five weeks thus reducing the cost to the student for time spent in Los Angeles. It is assumed that the student will have completed the semester's requirements in five weeks and is then free to work, acquire an internship, return to Chicago or participate in an independent project without jeopardizing financial aid. In its eigth year, the Semester in LA is the only institution of higher learning permanently located on a studio lot. The program offices and classrooms are located in Bungalow 5 on the CBS Studio Lot in Studio City. This location provides invaluable real-world experience. Students are given Lot ID badges and enter the gates of the lot everyday just like working producers, directors, stars and craft personnel. This year the program includes not only our successful Producing sessions but also Directing; Screenwriting; Costuming, Styling & Wardrobe Management; Adaptation; TV Pilot Development; Writing the TV Sitcom and Entertainment Public Relations and Marketing and Music Composition for Film & Television and Music Production and Supervision. WHO IS ELIGIBLE The requirements and prerequisites very from program to program. All
interested students should attend a general Open House session. Acceptance
into the program is by application only. We are able to take only
a limited number of students for each specialized session. While
the courses offered in the Producing sessions are from the Producing Requirements for Screenwriting, Adaptation, Costuming, Styling & Wardrobe Management, Music Composing are more restricted. These requirements can be obtained at the general Open House sessions listed above on the right. |
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COST
* The cost depends
on your living arrangements and how you arrive in LA. A few people
have completed the five weeks Students are responsible for living and transportation arrangements. We
can give advice regarding the various PERSONNEL The program is designed and implemented through the Producing Concentration. The Producing Curriculum Coordinator is Don Smith who founded the program with the late Bob Enrietto who sadly passed away shortly after Christmas 2003. Mr. Enrietto was a thirty year veteran of studio producing and a member of the Director's Guild of America (DGA). His Los Angeles contacts read like a "Who's Who" of the LA movie business. In addition, several part-time instructors from the business join the team in Los Angeles. Jon Katzman was named Director of Semester in Los Angeles in August 2004. Mr. Katzman received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of California, Berkeley, and an Executive MBA from The Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has nearly 15 years experience in the entertainment industry, including three years at Warner Brother’s as Director of Comedy Development and Director of Current Programming for television shows including Lois and Clark, The George Carlin Show, and Full House, three years as Vice President of Television at Regency Television, and most recently as an Executive Producer for television programs developed for Discovery Home and Leisure, FX, and VH1. Jon has also served as adjunct faculty for the Semester in L.A. program for the past year, where he started the sit-com program, and has held the position of executive liaison to the Warner Brother’s Writer’s Workshop and The Writer’s Boot Camp. In addition, he has served as a consultant for the Broad Foundation on human resources for the 80 largest urban school districts in the country. SPEAKERS Presenters during each session include acquisition executives; development producers; production executives; postproduction personnel including editors, sound designers and postproduction supervisors; story editors; creative producers, entertainment accountants; entertainment attorneys; executive producers, DPs; casting agents; location managers; assistant directors; line producers; screenwriters and many more. SOME SITE VISITS Sony Studio Warners Bros. Studio Central Casting American Film Market Panavision Todd-A-O Sound Studio Consolidated Film Lab (CFI) Writers Guild Television SOME INTERNSHIPS/JOBS CSI/NY Village Road Show Phoenix Pictures The WB Ridley Scott & Scott Free ER Next Wave Films Variety Passions The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Any Day Now Todd-A-O Sound Digital Domain The Producers Guild Jim Henson Productions Warner Brothers Consolidated Film Inc. Technicolor Mandalay Films USA
Films Contemptable Features Indigo
Productions Fox Studios The
Firm CAA Greystone Deadwood MGM Sony/Columbia Studios INTEREST If you are interested you should attend an orientation session listed above and to the right. You may then apply by completely fill out an application. Please carefully read the directions. If you qualify you will be scheduled for an interview. Shortly after that you will be notified regarding your acceptance. . You must download the application. |
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