Filmmaking Concentration
Bring Your
Vision to Life
MCAD’s Filmmaking concentration is versatile, experiential, and prepares students for a variety of fields. Courses cover all elements of cinematic production, including writing, directing, acting, producing, shooting, sound mixing, and editing. Cutting-edge film and digital technologies allow you to experiment, collaborate, and express yourself as you work across genres, crafting narrative, documentary, and experimental projects. Using traditional motion-picture language as well as contemporary innovations, students develop formally inventive films and videos to bring a personal vision to life.
Hear about the student experience
As a Media Arts major with a Filmmaking concentration, you will:
- Investigate Filmmaking in relationship to interdisciplinary media practices.
- Develop creative and technical skills in filmmaking, videography, screenwriting, visual effects, and sound.
- Pursue independent film and video projects informed by personal vision. Learn a range of professional crew positions.
- Acquire the skills and knowledge for an independent creative practice and a professional career in filmmaking.
- Obtain a broad historical and critical understanding of cinema history.
- Gain new tools of self-expression in media production while you navigate complex questions of identity.
Class Highlights
- Narrative Filmmaking
- Documentary
- Experimental Filmmaking
- Editing & Post-Production
- Sound
After MCAD
There are many paths to explore with a degree in Filmmaking. Potential careers include:
- Cinematographer
- Documentary Filmmaker
- Film Editor
- Sound Designer
“While I was heavily interested in graphic design and sculpture, filmmaking was the major that satisfied my creative soul, thirst for technological innovation, and entrepreneurial drive.”
