Prerequisites:
Students apply for admission into the Fiction Filmmaking cohort in the spring semester of their sophomore year or earlier, after completing at least one of the prerequisite courses listed below (both courses will need to be completed prior to or concurrently with FLM/MI 335).
Both of the following requirements:
- FLM 230 Introduction to Film (4 cr.)
AND EITHER - CAS 112 Story, Sound, and Motion (3 cr) OR
- FLM 260 Intro to Digital Film and Media (4 cr)
Note: though the course builder says that CAS 112 is only open to CAS students, all students in the minor are allowed to take the class. Request a CAS112 Override here: http://override.cas.msu.edu/index.php
Requirements:
- The following course (3 cr.):
- FLM/DS 335 Film Directing (3 cr.)
- One of the following courses (3 cr.):
- FLM 300 History of Film to Midcentury (3 cr.)
- FLM 301 History of Film after Midcentury (3 cr.)
- FLM 380 Classical Film and Media Theory (3 cr.)
- FLM 381 Contemporary Film and Media Theory (3 cr.)
- One of the following courses (3-4 cr.):
- FLM 334 Screenwriting (3 cr.)
- FLM 337 Topics in Film Form: Aesthetics of Film Editing/Cinematography (3 cr.)
- FLM 434 Advanced Screenwriting (3 cr.)
- FLM 438 Film Financing, Programming, and Distribution (3 cr.)
- FLM 460 Seminar in Digital Film and Emergent Media (3 cr.)
- MI 337 Compositing and Special Effects (3 cr.)
- DS 341 Film Style Production for Cinema and TV (3 cr.)
- DS 344 Sound Design (3 cr.)
- DS 351 Producing for Cinema and Television (3 cr.)
- DS 409 Advanced Lighting and Camera Techniques (3 cr.)
- DS 440 Advanced Video Editing (3 cr.)
- Both of the following courses (6 cr.):
- FLM/DS 435A Creating the Fiction Film I (3 cr.)
- FLM/DS 435B Creating the Fiction Film II (3 cr.)
- *Please keep in mind that many of the courses listed above have prerequisites that are not listed on the minor slate of courses.