Film

Film at Cornish focuses on the development of the writer-director’s original vision and, at the same time, ensures that students learn the tools they need to express that vision. They learn to write, to light, to direct actors, to move the camera (and why it must sometimes stay still), as well as the way story works in a variety of film forms.

At the completion of their program of study, graduates are able to:

• Make work in different narrative film styles in fiction and non-fiction

• Employ the tools and concepts of film language as part of a symbolic system

• Synthesize ideas about complexity in film narrative

• Closely analyze and explain why and how the component pieces of film scenes and stories are made

• Clearly communicate how their work is situated within contemporary filmmaking practices