TMA 418 Request for Add Code

IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING

TMA 418: Advanced Visual Storytelling is a preparatory course for students planning to direct either an AFP: Studio or an AFP: Indie. It is a rigorous exploration into the aesthetic, emotional, and technical principles of cinematic storytelling. Students will practice these principles by working with partners each week to direct or shoot a film which will then be critiqued in class. By the end of the semester, students will have directed six or seven short films and shot six or seven short films.  Due to limited resources, the course can only accommodate eight students per semester.

Instructor-approved add codes for TMA 418 are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis, with some additional screening measures to confirm that students are prepared to take the class and that they are signing up for the class in the correct semester.

In order to take this course, you must first certify that you understand what the course is (a preparatory course for AFP: Studio and AFP: Indie projects) and you commit to what will be required of you in the course (maximum work ethic, dependability, collaboration, and a schedule that will allow full focus on course assignments).

TMA 418 is a demanding course. Students report spending an average of 16 hours per week outside of class (some students spend less, others more) on readings, class assignments, preproduction, production, and postproduction work. Intensive collaboration with other students is required; your peers' work and grades are dependent upon your performance and vice versa. Therefore, just as in the professional world, you must be able to meet all course expectations without special exceptions. If you are unable to submit work on time, are not dependable, do not collaborate well, do not love learning about and making films, then you will not be successful in TMA 418.  You will also put your classmates’ learning in jeopardy. If this is a particularly busy or stressful semester, do not take TMA 418! Please contact the professor with any questions.

For students who confirm they are prepared for the rigor of this class, then priority will be given 

1. First to students who have completed all the prerequisites.
2. While this course is designed for all filmmakers, directors who are planning on an AFP receive priority, followed by directors, followed by cinematographers, and then all other positions. 
3. Remaining students will be entered on a first-come first-served basis. 
    

Acknowledgment:

TMA 418 is a demanding FOUR credit class requiring hard work, dependability, and commitment. It is your time to focus on learning new concepts, gaining new skills, developing self-discipline, fine-tuning your sensibilities.

If you receive an add code and add the class, you agree to fully invest in this experience by:
- attending all class sessions;
- being a reliable, contributing production partner;
- participating in class and taking notes;
- turning in all work on time;
- not accepting a key position on an advanced fiction/non-fiction production;
- not working on other/outside projects?

You also acknowledge that the curriculum does not provide for exceptions to deadlines.