MA Television Production

Television production provides students with the theoretical and practical background needed to become writers, directors and producers across platforms: from the established media industry to the evolving movement of independent television. We encourage our students to tell their own stories, develop their own audiences and to build their own networks. The program explores the larger social and cultural contexts which frame creative endeavors and emphasize critical analysis of media and history of visual storytelling. Our multi faceted curriculum exposes students to a wide range of existing genres of fiction and nonfiction storytelling as well as introduces them to new and evolving forms, such as virtual and transmedia storytelling. Students move seamlessly between single and multiple camera formats. They write, research, develop, direct and produce fiction and nonfiction narratives, comedy and drama pilots, documentaries and webisodes, and utilize our high definition television studio to create live-streaming internet broadcasts. Our incoming students bring to the classroom a wide range of ideas, skills and backgrounds. Many are experienced visual storytellers, others are writers and artists with little production experience. Together they are determined to find the appropriate artistic expression of their viewpoints and beliefs about the world.