Cinema and Photography - Ithaca College

Cinema and Photography from Ithaca College is a Campus Bachelor Film degree that prepares you for a Art and Design career. If you prefer to see the world through the viewfinder of a camera, you're going to love being a cinema and photography major. From your first semester, you'll be deeply involved in planning, shooting, and editing film and still photography projects. At the same time you'll be learning the theory and history behind your work. Your introductory courses will teach you to evaluate your work with a deeper understanding of what gives an image impact and meaning. You'll venture forth from film production classes with a whole new appreciation for the amount of planning and work that goes into a movie long before the cameras start rolling. By your sophomore year you'll select a concentration in still photography, cinema production, or screenwriting. If you choose still photography, you'll embark on an intensive course load that will include classes in color photography, digital photography, contemporary photographic issues, and American visual culture. If you're interested in cinema production, you'll take such courses as film theory, screenwriting, and directing. In addition to cinema studies , our new interdisciplinary screenwriting concentration features courses in theater, literature, and writing from the School of Humanities and Sciences. Whatever your choices, we have the equipment and the facilities to help you get excellent results. Students supply their own digital SLR camera and light meter, but we provide everything from color and black-and-white darkrooms, digital editing suites, and two digital still-imaging labs to Aaton and Bolex cameras, digital and analog tape recorders, and three film and video studios. We've developed lots of opportunities for you to try out your new skills. Our Los Angeles program arranges internships at film studios, providing real-life experience and contacts that will help you after graduation. Students in the Photo Italy course travel to that country for several weeks of hands-on photography in the summer, and other students have gone to countries such as Antigua, China, South Africa, and South Korea to get a taste of life as working photojournalists. Our students display their work at the Handwerker Gallery on campus and at galleries in downtown Ithaca. If you can picture yourself doing any of these things, this is the major for you. View more details on Ithaca College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Film courses.