Biola University 2015–16 Catalog
company, network, studio or media ministry. This course will test students’ commitment, aptitude and stamina for work within the entertainment industry. Includes on-campus sessions designed to strengthen and expand professional skills. Restriction(s): Must be a Cinema and Media Arts (CNMA, MCFT) major. Note(s): Sixty hours of internship is required for each academic credit. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 1–3. CNMA 446 - Media Career Management A capstone class for junior and senior students preparing to enter the entertainment business. Students create cover letters, resumes, and do practice interviews. Students also do reader coverage and study the careers of various people in the entertainment business. The class culminates with a pitch meeting with visiting entertainment executives. Restriction(s): Must be a Cinema and Media Arts (CNMA, MCFT) major. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. CNMA 447 - Advanced Screen Writing Advanced work in writing and polishing dramatic scripts for television and motion pictures. Prerequisite(s): 356. Restriction(s): Must be a Cinema and Media Arts (CNMA, MCFT) major. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. CNMA 449 - The Role of the Producer Producers make film and television happen. This course covers what a producer does to create a budget, to find financing, to manage the production process, and to market and distribute a film or television project. Restriction(s): Must be a Cinema and Media Arts (CNMA, MCFT) major. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. CNMA 450 - Cinema and Media Arts Practicum Directed practical experience in the various fields of mass communication. Restriction(s): Must be a Cinema and Media Arts (CNMA, MCFT) major. Note(s): May be taken for a total of 6 credits with different content. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 1–3. CNMA 451 - Audio Post Production for Film and TV Development of advanced aesthetics and techniques in composing, editing and processing audio for film and television postproduction. Includes ADR, sound effects, surround sound and orchestra recording. Prerequisite(s): 365. Restriction(s): Must be a Cinema and Media Arts (CNMA, MCFT) major. Fee: $50. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. CNMA 452 - Motion Picture Post-Production The final course in a three-course film production sequence (358, 359, 452). Emphasizes editing, music, sound effects, mixing, laboratory coordination, and distribution. Prerequisite(s): 359. Restriction(s): Must be a Cinema and Media Arts (CNMA, MCFT) major. Fee: $50. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. CNMA 453 - Beauty as Truth This course will explore the idea of how to get one’s worldview into the story without ruining the story. It will study how story works to impact an audience, and how the filmmaker uses the many aspects of film apart from just dialogue to tell the story and shape the message. Restriction(s): Must be a Cinema and Media Arts (CNMA) major. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 2. CNMA 455 - Media Management Covers management strategies as applied to media companies, including television stations, cable systems, motion picture production companies, companies in the emerging technologies and ministry media. In addition, students will receive guidance geared toward final preparation for entering into executive positions in the entertainment industry. Projects include resumes, cover letters, interview and meeting techniques, reader coverage, and concludes with students pitching projects to current entertainment executives. Restriction(s): Must be a Cinema and Media Arts (CNMA, MCFT) major. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. CNMA 456 - Senior Media Project Student produces a “calling card” project with advice and guidance from faculty. The project will represent the student’s highest achievement in media production. Projects can include scripts, audio recordings, video, motion pictures, and other emerging media. Prerequisite(s): 356 or 359. Restriction(s): Must be a Cinema and Media Arts (CNMA, MCFT) major. Fee: $50. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. CNMA 457 - Mass Communication Theory Social scientific theory in mass communication with emphasis on practical usefulness of theories. Restriction(s): Must be a Cinema and Media Arts
Must be a Cinema and Media Arts (CNMA, MCFT) major. Fee: $50. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. CNMA 359 - Motion Picture Production Principal photography will be done for the film project begun in 358. Emphasizes lighting, camera operation, sound recording and directing. Prerequisite(s): 251, 262, 303, 315. Corequisite(s): CNMA 358. Restriction(s): Must be a Cinema and Media Arts (CNMA, MCFT) major. Fee: $50. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. CNMA 361 - Intermediate Production: Narrative The planning and creation of a short fiction film or TV project with a special emphasis upon collaboration. Students will form crews, practicing the crafts of writing, directing, cinematography, editing and sound design. Restriction(s): Must be a Cinema and Media Arts (CNMA, MCFT) major. Fee: $100. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. CNMA 362 - Intermediate Production: Documentary The planning and creation of short documentary projects with a special emphasis upon collaboration. Students will form crews, practicing the crafts of writing, directing, cinematography, editing and sound design. Restriction(s): Must be a Cinema and Media Arts (CNMA, MCFT) major. Fee: $100. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. CNMA 364 - Media Performance Use of acting skills in front of television cameras using scenes from actual television and film scripts. Includes critiques of acting methods. Restriction(s): Must be a Cinema and Media Arts (CNMA, MCFT) major. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. CNMA 365 - Digital Audio Editing and Post Production Exploration of digital audio editing. Entirely computer-based exploration of developing, composing, recording, mixing and posting audio for film, television and recording arts. Prerequisite(s): 251. Restriction(s): Must be a Cinema and Media Arts (CNMA, MCFT) major. Fee: $50. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. CNMA 375 - Expansive Media An introduction to the fundraising, creating and producing, promoting, branding, and distribution of documentaries, music videos, commercials, mobisodes, webisodes, and industrial films. Restriction(s): Must be a Cinema and Media Arts (CNMA, MCFT) major. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. CNMA 392 - Principles of Advertising Advertising principles and techniques. The study of effective and ineffective forms of advertising. Applications linked to public relations, media events, marketing, and communication encounters. Cross-listed: BUSN/JOUR 392. Restriction(s): Must be a Cinema and Media Arts (CNMA, MCFT) major. Fee: $25. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. CNMA 405 - Understanding Representation This course will involve learning the importance of representation for the writer, how to get representation, and how to develop this relationship to one’s best advantage. In addition, this will include packaging and pitching of projects, which students will learn to reduce ideas to basic components enhancing verbal presentation skills. Restriction(s): Must be a Cinema and Media Arts (CNMA) major. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 2. CNMA 420 - Coverages and Rewrites A course in learning to perform coverage of scripts and in rewriting and polishing dramatic scripts for television and motion pictures. An emphasis will be placed on critical analysis of story structure from classic films to contemporary works. Includes identification of key story concepts and elements of three-act structure. Prerequisite(s): 312. Restriction(s): Must be a Cinema and Media Arts (CNMA) major. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 2. CNMA 425 - Advanced Audio Recording Development of advanced aesthetics and techniques in miking, mixing, recording, editing and processing audio for music production. Includes both studio and live recording of musical performances. Developing a master CD is the final project of the class. Prerequisite(s): 365. Restriction(s): Must be a Cinema and Media Arts (CNMA, MCFT) major. Fee: $50. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. CNMA 433 - Mass Media Law and Ethics Study of theoretical approaches to the First Amendment as well as specific areas of concern to professional journalists such as defamation, privacy, fair trial, obscenity, copyright, shield laws, sunshine laws, etc. Exploration of applied professional ethics and contemporary professional issues of ethics for media professionals. Cross-listed: JOUR 433. Restriction(s): Must be a Cinema and Media Arts (CNMA, MCFT) major. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. CNMA 440 - Cinema and Media Arts Internship A real-world learning experience beyond the university classroom. The focus is working in a media-related organization such as a production
(CNMA, MCFT) major. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 3. CNMA 458 - Mass Communication Research
Methodology for mass communication research, including sampling, questionnaire design and introduction to statistics. Students conduct an audience analysis, focus groups and research project. A major goal is to become adept at reading and evaluating research reports. Cross-listed:
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