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CAMS 111 Intro to Cinema and Media Production 6 credits
This class introduces students to the full range of production tools and forms, building both the technical and conceptual skills needed to continue at more advanced levels. We will explore the aesthetics and mechanics of shooting digital video, the role of sound and how to record and mix it, field and studio production, lighting, and editing with Adobe Premiere Pro CC. Course work will include individual and group production projects, readings, and writing. This is an essential foundation for anyone interested in moving-image production and learning the specifics of CAMS' studios, cameras, and lighting equipment.
Sophomore Priority. Formerly titled Digital Foundations. Extra Time required for evening equipment and software labs
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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CAMS 111.00 Winter 2025
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- M, WWeitz Center 132 12:30pm-3:00pm
- M, WWeitz Center 138 12:30pm-3:00pm
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Sophomore Priority. Formerly titled Digital Foundations.
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CAMS 229 CAMS Production in Los Angeles Program: Experimental Los Angeles 3 credits
Los Angeles is well known as the center of the film and television industry. This course will explore the lesser-know experimental and avant-garde cinematic histories and current practices in Los Angeles through readings and screenings. Site visits will include filmmaker and media artist studios, archives, and film festivals. Students will reflect on their experiences with course materials through short writings and creative projects.
Acceptance in the Carleton OCS CAMS Production in Los Angeles Program.
- Spring 2025
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Acceptance into the Carleton OCS CAMS Production in Los Angeles program.
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CAMS 230 CAMS Production in Los Angeles Program: Iconic Los Angeles 3 credits
This course explores the second largest city in the United States through its relationship to cinema history. In its complexities and contradictions, romantic notions of “Tinsel Town” coexist with the realities of a multicultural metropolis. Readings, screenings, and field trips will contextualize Los Angeles as a place where the built environment and natural world collide, as well as the center of the American entertainment industry. Short writings will give students the necessary opportunity to reflect and synthesize their experiences.
Acceptance in the Carleton OCS CAMS Production in Los Angeles Program.
- Spring 2025
- LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): CAMS 111 with a grade of C- or better AND acceptance into the Carleton OCS CAMS Production – Los Angeles Program.
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CAMS 270 Nonfiction 6 credits
This course addresses nonfiction media as both art form and historical practice by exploring the expressive, rhetorical, and political possibilities of nonfiction production. A focus on relationships between form and content and between makers, subjects, and viewers will inform our approach. Throughout the course we will pay special attention to the ethical concerns that arise from making media about others’ lives. We will engage with diverse modes of nonfiction production including essayistic, experimental, and participatory forms and create community videos in partnership with Carleton’s Center for Community and Civic Engagement and local organizations. The class culminates in the production of a significant independent nonfiction media project.
Extra Time
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): CAMS 111 with grade of C- or better.
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CAMS 270.00 Fall 2024
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 133 10:10am-11:55am
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CAMS 272 CAMS Production in Los Angeles Program: Narrative Short Film Production 6 credits
Narrative films are the product of many artists working in concert toward a shared artistic vision. In this course, students will explore the essential crew roles on narrative films and choose an area in which they would like to specialize during the making of a collaborative project in Los Angeles. In addition to a focus on story and directing actors, specialized equipment and craft labs will expand students' technical skills. Through the term, students will learn the ins-and-outs of filmmaking in Los Angeles while moving through production of a narrative short film, with each student taking on a specific crew position in a collaborative project.
Acceptance in the Carleton OCS CAMS Production in Los Angeles Program.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Acceptance into the Carleton OCS CAMS Production in Los Angeles program.
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CAMS 277 CAMS Production in Los Angeles Program: In the Writers’ Room 6 credits
In this course, students will explore the art and craft of writing for television as they learn, from writers' room insiders, how TV series are conceived and created. We'll break the writing process into a series of manageable steps, from pilot premise to polishing. Topics will include: story structure, character development, tone, stakes, theme, and more. In-class conversations with working, award-winning television writers, as well as visits to sets and show tapings, will complement the classroom curriculum.
Acceptance in the Carleton OCS CAMS Production in Los Angeles Program.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): CAMS 111 with a grade of C- or better AND acceptance into the Carleton OCS CAMS Production – Los Angeles Program.
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CAMS 370 Advanced Production Workshop I 6 credits
In this course, students will develop a concept and complete pre-production for their CAMS production comps. Students will draw inspiration from a variety of sources that are personal, cultural, and observational, and in doing so, develop confidence in their own artistic practice and perspective. We will refine technical and formal strategies, consider audience reception, and practice giving and receiving constructive critique. Prior to registering for the course, students must submit a project proposal to the instructor. Final enrollment is based on the quality of the proposal. Note: This course is intended to prepare students for a Comps production project in winter term and it is the first in a two part sequence with CAMS 371. If you have any questions about enrolling in this course, please email the instructor.
Extra Time Required
Instructor Consent Required
- Fall 2024
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): CAMS 111 AND either CAMS 270 or CAMS 271 with a grade of C- or better.
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CAMS 370.00 Fall 2024
- Faculty:Laska Jimsen 🏫 👤
- Size:10
- T, THWeitz Center 231 3:10pm-4:55pm
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Extra Time, Instructor Consent required, Waitlist only
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CAMS 400 Integrative Exercise
The senior integrative exercise in CAMS is a self-directed individual or group project. Students will produce a work of significant depth that builds on and synthesizes their coursework in the major. Project options include production of a scholarly paper, screenplay/teleplay, or short film. Alternatively, students may take a written long-form essay exam. Students completing one of the project options will present their work at the CAMS comps symposium in the spring term.
Unless otherwise direct by their advisor, students writing a research paper should enroll in six credits. Students selecting the exam option, writing a short film screenplay, or creating a production project that involves enrollment in CAMS 370/371 should enroll in three credits.
- Winter 2025
- No Exploration
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Student is a Cinema and Media Studies major AND has Senior Priority.