NEXT START: FALL 2008
Program Start: September 15, 2008
Tuition: $29,900
The Digital Filmmaking Program is an intensive, hands-on program designed to prepare students for a career in the motion picture industry. The innovative curriculum is taught by award-winning filmmakers and is project-based, with students creating five (5) of their own movies and working on a professional feature-length motion picture.
Over the course of the year, every student will create:
- One 3 to 5-minute narrative fiction film
- One 3 to 5-minute documentary film
- One 4 to 6-minute “challenge” film (either documentary or fiction)
- One 30-second commercial with special effects
- One 8 to12 minute thesis movie in any genre
and:
- Crew with professionals on a feature-length motion picture
Students learn the art and craft of filmmaking and work in a variety of genres – fiction, commercials and documentary. The class is structured around small production teams in which students produce their own movies and crew on team member projects. In this way, students get personalized instruction, maximum experience with the equipment, and create material for their demo reels.
SFSDF is proud to be a small school, with only two new class starts a year, in March and September. Unlike other film schools that have a “conveyor belt” mentality and start a new class every month, our class sizes are limited in order to offer students maximum access to both equipment and instructors. Our mission is not to turn out large numbers of students with little knowledge – it is to train a small group of passionate students and prepare them for entering the professional world of filmmaking.
SFSDF student movie projects are strategically designed to allow students to build their skills in an organic and increasingly challenging way. After completing their first own film projects movies and crewing on as many as 25 of their teammates movies, student have the skills and confidence necessary to crew on a feature-length digital motion picture. SFSDF is the only film school in the country offering students this valuable and unique experience.
On the movie set, students fill in key crew positions and continue to develop their craft by working side-by-side with professional crew members from San Francisco and LA. During the course of filming, students rotate through two feature production departments and receive credit on the finished film. This on-set experience allows students to gain critical real-world knowledge and invaluable contacts in the movie business.
Students that successfully complete this Program receive the three essential tools for launching their career–a demo reel built from their best work, motion picture credits including work on a feature film, and contacts in the industry. Students enter the filmmaking program at SFSDF as students and leave as professionals.
The SFSDF Digital Filmmaking Program is offered concurrently at two different times, daytime and evening. The evening schedule helps to meet the needs of working students. Both the evening and daytime classes offer the same course of study with the same number of hours.
Daytime, M-Th (10a-4p)
Evening, M-Th (6:30p-10p) and Sat (10a-6p)
Because the curriculum is project-based, during certain phases of film production students will be working beyond the regular class schedule.
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE:
SFSDF offers financial assistance options through SLM Financial, a SallieMae Company. These are credit-based loans and offered to students that qualify based on credit history.
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APPLICATION PROCESS:
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For more information or questions please call Admissions at 415-522-1200
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