required classes including the ‘core’ classes of Cinema 310, generally taken in junior year and Cinema 480, generally taken senior year.
Cinema 310 and 480 are the core production classes of the program where students are put into either teams or crews and produce their larger productions. While Cinema 310 consisted of non-synced sound and 480 was a larger more sync-sound production, things have evolved over the years. Both courses have a ‘screening’ in a sort of festival at the end of the semester where students show their films to each other and family and friends are invited to view them. The very best of these can often be used as portfolio pieces to gain representation although usually they are not of the quality or length of the graduate level films.
The facilities of the school of Cinema/Television at USC are outstanding. George Lucas, one