Filmmaking or Film Studies? Whats the difference?
Film Studies (its full title is “Film, Cinema & Media Studies”) is a liberal arts program that combines a variety of disciplines in the humanities (communications, cultural studies, sociology, art history, philosophy and more) to give students a wide range of academic experiences and training. It looks at the past and present of filmmaking practice and considers how films, television, and other audio-visual media attain the status of art, popular culture, and documentary in our culture. Filmmaking offers a course of study whose emphasis is on the actual practice of making film and video works. Students in the filmmaking program gain a broad range of experience in both the technical and creative processes involved in writing, directing, producing, shooting, editing, and sound designing film and video projects. Although these are separate programs of study, they combine to offer our students a uniquely balanced approach to both film studies and filmmaking.
