In Spring 2020, seniors in MACS 480: Advanced Filmmaking, taught by Victor Font, lecturer in media and cinema studies, collaborated with a Department of Theatre class (Acting for the Camera). Unfortunately, as the pandemic unfolded, students had to halt filming in their second day of production, leaving this movie unfinished. Below, watch their final project, featuring nine minutes […]
This spring, students in MACS 480: Advanced Filmmaking are producing a live action short film called “The Goji Project,” written and directed by advertising senior Lincoln Rogers. Watch the final video. The class, led by Victor Font, lecturer in media and cinema studies, built a dorm room set at Illinois Public Media in March and began […]
In MACS 370: Cinematography and Sound Design, students had to build a strategy, a production plan, and a shooting plan for a movie that they write at the beginning of the semester, which is based on a famous painting. “They have to imagine a story that could happen, ending in that specific frame (of the painting), and develop […]