Entertainment

Learn to apply advanced financial structures in support of profit optimization and risk mitigation. Participants leave the class ready to strategically secure financing for their projects, craft compelling pitch decks, and pitch at film markets.

Immerse yourself into the creative and logistical process of scoring a film from finding your own musical aesthetic to the practicalities of collaborating with others in the scoring process.

In this capstone course of the Directing Certificate Program, improve your filmmaking skills through the creation of a short film that is screened for an invited audience after the end of the course.

This course further explores the unique evocative capabilities of each musical instrument and examines their applications in regard to scoring to picture, considered from both the composer's and orchestrator's perspective.

For creative professionals and students ready to move beyond individual AI tools and start building production-ready systems. The focus is pipeline thinking, connecting text, image, video, and audio generation into modular, repeatable workflows that hold up in a professional context. Each session adds a new layer to the production stack, from prompting and image generation through performance capture, compositing, upscaling, and audio. Students chain tools together into consistent ComfyUI workflows, grounded in a core principle: human judgment, storytelling intent, and hybrid filmmaking are what make AI-assisted work audience worthy. Designed for writers, directors, producers, actors, editors, animators, and creative technologists ready to create distributable content with AI, not just experiment with it. No prior AI experience required. The course culminates in an original 30 to 60 second short film built through the tools and techniques developed throughout the term.