Oct 02, 2024

2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Video and Film Production, B.S.

Media Arts
615-898-5862
Robert Gordon, program coordinator
Robert.Gordon@mtsu.edu

The Video and Film Production program offers a combination of filmmaking, video production, and live production. Students are able to specialize in these aspects by their choices of required course options. The program builds upon a blend of theoretical and hands-on approaches to media production.

The Video and Film Production program emphasizes hands-on learning experiences whenever possible. Facilities include an equipment checkout system for students with a variety of cameras and on-location production equipment; a 40-foot mobile television production lab that averages about 40 live productions per semester; video editing facilities; two production studios including a 3,000 square foot TV/film studio; a Foley lab; large-scale LED wall facilities; and 360-degree virtual reality facilities.

The program also offers substantial cocurricular opportunities for its students. This includes several organizations focused on making films, a student run television station where students produce the programming and manage the station, and a unique varsity team for live television production whose work is frequently distributed nationwide. These opportunities are available to students from their first semester onward.

Video and Film Production students are able to build upon their unique talents and interests by combining this major with related minors such as Animation, Audio Production, Interactive Media, Film Studies, Writing, and others.

NOTE: Students must complete all major course requirements with a grade of C (2.00) or better.

Academic Map

Following is a printable, suggested four-year schedule of courses:

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Degree Requirements

True Blue Core (TBC)	41 hours
Major Requirements	52 hours*
College Core	9 hours
VFP Requirements	31 hours
Guided Electives	12 hours
Minor	15-18 hours
Electives	9-12 hours
TOTAL	120 hours

*This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the True Blue Core curriculum. If program requirements are also used to fulfill True Blue Core requirements, the number of elective hours may increase.

True Blue Core (41 hours)

True Blue Core (TBC) requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.

The following courses required by the major meet True Blue Core requirements:

EMC 1020 /JOUR 1020 /RIM 1020 (HSSR)

Major Requirements (52 hours)

College Core (9 hours)

EMC 1020 - Introduction to Media and Entertainment 3 credit hours OR
JOUR 1020 - Introduction to Media and Entertainment 3 credit hours OR
RIM 1020 - Introduction to Media and Entertainment 3 credit hours
(may be counted in the True Blue Core)
VFP 2020 - Scripts for Media 3 credit hours
EMC 4250 - Media Law 3 credit hours OR
JOUR 4250 - Media Law 3 credit hours

Video and Film Production Requirements (31 hours)

EMC 1010 - Orientation to Media Arts 1 credit hour
EMC 2120 - Sight, Sound, and Motion 3 credit hours
VFP 1080 - Post-Production I 3 credit hours
VFP 2130 - Single Cam I 3 credit hours
VFP 2131 - Multi Cam I 3 credit hours
VFP 2410 - History of American Television 3 credit hours
VFP 2510 - History of American Cinema 3 credit hours
VFP 3140 - Multi Cam II 3 credit hours OR
VFP 3150 - Single Cam II 3 credit hours
VFP 4990 - Filmmaking Capstone 3 credit hours OR
VFP 4995 - Live Production Capstone 3 credit hours

Advanced Production Requirements (6 hours)

Choose at least 6 credit hours

VFP 4150 - Advanced Multi-camera Production - Studio 3 credit hours
VFP 4940 - Advanced Seminar-Filmmaking 3 credit hours
VFP 4941 - Advanced Multi-camera Video Production 1 to 4 credit hours

Guided Electives (12 hours)

EMC 3010 - Media Production Seminar 1 to 3 credit hours
EMC 3090 - Media Technology Seminar 3 credit hours
EMC 3580 - Media Practicum 1 to 3 credit hours
EMC 3750 - Film and TV Producing 3 credit hours
EMC 4000 - Media Internship 1 to 3 credit hours
EMC 4800 - Seminar in Media Issues 3 credit hours
EMC 4820 - Race, Gender, and Class in Media 3 credit hours
EMC 4850 - Ethics and Mass Communication 3 credit hours
EMC 4900 - Independent Study in Media Arts 1 to 3 credit hours
Any 3000- or 4000-level VFP or MODE course 3 credit hours

Minor (15-18 hours)

Electives (9-12 hours)

Curriculum: Video and Film Production

Freshman Fall

EMC 1010 - Orientation to Media Arts 1 credit hour
Written Communication 3 credit hours
Quantitative Literacy 3 credit hours
Human Society and Social Relationships 3 credit hours
Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours
EMC 1020 - Introduction to Media and Entertainment 3 credit hours (HSSR) OR
JOUR 1020 - Introduction to Media and Entertainment 3 credit hours (HSSR) OR
RIM 1020 - Introduction to Media and Entertainment 3 credit hours (HSSR)

Subtotal: 16 Hours

Freshman Spring

EMC 2120 - Sight, Sound, and Motion 3 credit hours
VFP 1080 - Post-Production I 3 credit hours
Information Literacy 3 credit hours
Non-Written Communication 3 credit hours
Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 15 Hours

Sophomore Fall

Creativity and Cultural Expression Literature 3 credit hours
History and Civic Learning 3 credit hours
Minor 3 credit hours
VFP 2130 - Single Cam I 3 credit hours
VFP 2410 - History of American Television 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 15 Hours

Sophomore Spring

VFP 2020 - Scripts for Media 3 credit hours
VFP 2131 - Multi Cam I 3 credit hours
History and Civic Learning 3 credit hours
Minor 3 credit hours
Guided elective 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 15 Hours

Junior Fall

VFP 2510 - History of American Cinema 3 credit hours
Guided elective 3 credit hours
Minor 3 credit hours
Scientific Literacy 4 credit hours
Elective 1 credit hour

Subtotal: 14 Hours

Junior Spring

VFP 3140 - Multi Cam II 3 credit hours OR
VFP 3150 - Single Cam II 3 credit hours
EMC 4250 - Media Law 3 credit hours OR
JOUR 4250 - Media Law 3 credit hours
Guided elective 3 credit hours
Minor 3 credit hours
Scientific Literacy 4 credit hours

Subtotal: 16 Hours

Senior Fall

VFP 4990 - Filmmaking Capstone 3 credit hours OR
VFP 4995 - Live Production Capstone 3 credit hours
Advanced video/film production requirement 3 credit hours
Minor 3 credit hours
Guided elective 3 credit hours
Elective (internship recommended) 4 credit hours

Subtotal: 16 Hours

Senior Spring

Advanced video/film production requirement 3 credit hours
Minor/Elective 3 credit hours
Electives 7 credit hours

Video and Film Production, B.S.

Academic Map

Degree Requirements

True Blue Core (41 hours)

Major Requirements (52 hours)

College Core (9 hours)

Video and Film Production Requirements (31 hours)

Advanced Production Requirements (6 hours)

Guided Electives (12 hours)

Minor (15-18 hours)

Electives (9-12 hours)

Curriculum: Video and Film Production

Freshman Fall

Subtotal: 16 Hours

Freshman Spring

Subtotal: 15 Hours

Sophomore Fall

Subtotal: 15 Hours

Sophomore Spring

Subtotal: 15 Hours

Junior Fall

Subtotal: 14 Hours

Junior Spring

Subtotal: 16 Hours

Senior Fall

Subtotal: 16 Hours

Senior Spring

Subtotal: 13 Hours