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Advanced Film Production I is the title of a Film Studies course usually taught during the Fall semester at Minnesota State University Moorhead. The course is designed to help students become comfortable working with 16mm film stock, and how to work creatively and critically with the medium. The class is typically followed by Advanced Film Production II during Spring semester.

Greg Carlson created the course in the Fall of 2000, and continued teaching it until the Fall of 2002. He originally designed the course as a 16mm group-project oriented production class. In the initial incarnation of the course, projects were created using the motif of the Seven Deadly Sins, with a group of two or three students assigned to each sin.

Following Carlson's departure for Concordia College, the 2003 Fall semster was taught by Chris Meissner. The Seven Deadly Sins concept was retired in favor of an anthology movie in six parts using a metaphor exploring parts of the human body.

The course has changed since it's inception and is currently being taught by Tom Brandau. In the fall of 2007 the class was structured so that students only shot only on black and white film stock saving the shooting of color film stock for Advanced Film Production II. The class projects included: a short partner project, which was edited both digitally and on a traditional flatbed editor, a group exercise involving the entire class, and a longer final partnered project, where the pairs would be creatively responsible for all phases of production.

Advanced Film Production I Class by Year[]

Spring of 2007[]

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Spring of 2001[]

Spring of 2000[]


MSUM Advanced Film Production I Projects[]

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