Production Aesthetics

The Department of Television and Radio offers courses in the field of production aesthetics. These courses are designed to provide students with an understanding of all major elements of film and television program production aesthetics (story, camera, light, sound and editing) from a technical, as well as an ideological, point of view. In addition to lectures and demonstrations of specific techniques and in-class scene analysis, students learn how all of these elements work together to send messages that underscore a film or program's main idea and objective. Through exploring the relationship between ethics and aesthetics, students are able to analyze issues and controversies from ethical, legal and social perspectives and how to successfully navigate those roads while producing their own work.