This program educates its students to be adaptable lifelong
artists, craftspeople, and learners who are capable of
maintaining focus, resilience, self-control, and motivation.
Students in film and moving image learn how to navigate
the ever-changing technological landscape while developing
and maintaining an original aesthetic vision and effectively
communicating that vision to others through film and
moving image. Graduates from the program emerge as
flexible and capable practitioners of filmmaking—be it on
film, digital media, or the next emerging format—who can
work as directors, writers, producers, cinematographers,
editors, motion graphic arts, or a specialist of their own
design. Graduates are prepared to succeed in the 21 st century
film industry.
Beyond the core courses, students elect one of the following
tracks: cinematography, editing, producing, or writing.
Each student focuses in one of the art forms, culminating
in students demonstrating the skills acquired by creating
a capstone project and developing a portfolio of work for
distribution in a variety of current media outlets.
KEY ASPECTS OF THIS
PROGRAM THAT MAKE IT
EXCEPTIONAL:
» Seniors profile their work in the Senior Showcase and
Senior Film Festival.
» Faculty are active in their fields, providing excellent
professional connections.
FILM AND
MOVING
IMAGE
Bachelor of Science
Minor available in this area of study
» Hands-on learning begins in the first semester of the
freshman year and continues through senior year.
» Students participate in an internship during which they
learn from professionals in the working world.
» Graduates are hired by many well-known employers. FACULTY
» Film and moving image students work with a wide variety
of cameras and software, from traditional camcorders to
DSLRs to the new 4K (and beyond) digital cinema cameras
on the one hand, and Final Cut Pro X, Adobe Premiere,
Adobe After Effects and AVID Media Composer on the
other, all the while focusing on the importance of craft
over technology. CHRISTOPHER L. REED
INTERNSHIPS
Film and moving image majors complete an internship in
their chosen focus, providing an opportunity to work with
film, theatre, and video artists. Students complete 120 hours
and keep a journal of their experiences. Some previous
internship sites include:
» A&E Television Networks
» Baltimore Orioles
» Blue Rock Productions
» ColorLab
» Discovery Communications
» House of Cards
» Maryland Film Festival
» Maryland Public Television
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» Renegade Productions
» Stanley Black and Decker
» Under Armour
» T. Rowe Price
» VH1
» WBFF-TV
» WJZ-TV 13
Chair and Professor, Film and Moving Image;
B.A., Harvard University; M.A., Yale University;
M.F.A., Tisch School of the Arts/New York
University
CHRISTOPHER ERNST
Assistant Professor, Film and Moving Image;
B.A., Hampshire College; M.F.A. State
University of New York, Buffalo
DINA FIASCONARO
Assistant Professor, Film and Moving Image;
B.S., Syracuse University; M.F.A., Columbia
University
GREGORY T. KEPLINGER
Associate Professor of Film and Moving
Image; A.A., Montgomery College; B.S.,
Towson University; M.F.A., American
University