Producing and Pitching: TheCreative Producer In The Real World (FILM 2030 L)
Term: 2023-24 Academic Year Spring
Description
Being a producer is a magical journey of discovery. Learning what stories are important to you, the best way to tell them, and why you must be the one to bring a story to life...these are the essential pillars of producing. A producer is the “visionary”—typically the one to initiate, develop, nurture, and shepherd a project, step-by-step, to its completion. The producer brings all of a project’s elements into existence and is the glue that holds them together. Taught through the lens of understanding what one or a small army of producers actually does, this course demystifies and explores the role of the producer on a feature or short film, documentary, television, animated, or digital project from the moment of creative inspiration through development, production, postproduction, and project delivery—defining what it means to “produce.” Led by an industry professional, this course takes a real-world look under the hood into the fundamentals of producing. In the first seven weeks, topi