ACADEMIC CATALOG >>
2007-2008
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LAF (Los Angeles Film Studies Center)
LAF 327 Hollywood Production Workshop (3)
This course offers students the opportunity to make a motion picture production using
Hollywood locations, resources, and protocol. Students work collaboratively in groups to
create a festival-ready piece, including all the legal documentation and rights to enable the
finished production to qualify for a festival submission.
LAF 329 Theology in Hollywood (4)
This course encourages the development of the necessary skills for analysis of the culture of
Hollywood, its role in popular culture and the theological intersections therein. The course seeks
theological engagement with the culture of Hollywood and cinema by investigating some of the social,
ethical, and psychological implications of film upon theology.
LAF 336 Inside Hollywood (6)
Students participate in an internship experience in some aspect of the Hollywood entertainment industry.
LAF 448 Motion Picture Production (3)
This is an intense hands-on course in short film production. Students individually write, shoot,
direct, and edit their own projects.
LAF 454 Professional Screenwriting (3)
This is a course in contemporary screenwriting, including an understanding of dramatic structure,
character, and dialogue development, and the writing process. Students complete a full-length
screenplay for a feature film or "movie-of-the-week."
LAF 460 Independent study (3)
This course may be set up by special request and arrangement. Students must submit a portfolio
and a project proposal. If Approved the student will be appointed a mentor to supervise the project.
Projects could include further development of a portfolio or reel, critical research, or a senior thesis project.
LAF 450 Film Industry Internship: Inside Hollywood (6)
Students participate in an
internship experience in some aspect of the Hollywood entertainment industry. These are nonpaying
positions primarily in an office setting such as development companies, agencies, management
companies, post-production facilities, etc. Students work 20 to 24 hours a week, spread over
a three to five day schedule. Orientation to the internship includes an overview of the
creative and operational aspects of the Hollywood entertainment business, including the
Christian's role in working therein. The internships do not include positions on actual
filmmaking locations. Instead, students work in offices as support personnel to producers,
writers, directors, agents, post-production personnel, and others involved in the total process
of producing and distributing a major motion picture. The Los Angeles Film Studies Center
provides interns to many of the major companies within Hollywood. Enrollment is limited to
students admitted to the Los Angeles Film Studies Center off-campus studies semester in
Los Angeles, California.
