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Participate in the casting, location scouting, pre-production tasks, and
principal photography of a short film from the page to the camera.
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Assume multiple roles and tasks during the production shoot under the
supervision of a professional director, a director of photography, an
award-winning screen writer - all accomplished producers.
- Work closely with the actors and leave the course with a fully edited DVD copy of the film, after its post-production edit, which will contain their own personal crew credit reflecting the work done on set and during production.
The workshop is by invitation only to thirty to thirty-five (30-35) select undergraduate and graduate level production, film and media studies, writing, editing, and sound design students of intermediate or advanced level. It is assumed that the experience level will vary amongst the crew and the course will give students the opportunity to assume roles on a production shoot for the first time. This is both a learning experience and a professional film shoot.
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Submit a statement describing your production experience, and provide a
sample of your work or of projects you have worked on.
- Send the materials listed in Step One and your completed Registration Form to the Summer Arts Registration Office by Monday, May 19, 2008.
Professor Michael Berlin
CSU Long Beach
coneyislnd@aol.com
562-985-1817
Undergraduate: MCJ 429, 3 units
Graduate: MCJ 629, 3 units
$50
Jack Anderson
A thirty-year Hollywood veteran, he was Director of Photography for Always Say Goodbye, first-prize winner at the first Hollywood Film Festival. He has been second-unit Director of Photography on Hook, Pretty Woman, Noises Off, Bird, Mad About You, and many other films. He has also worked on such films as To Live and Die in LA, Down by Law, The Long Riders, Oh God!, Broadcast News, Barfly, and Showgirls. His many television credits include Third Rock From the Sun, NewsRadio, Spin City, The Tracey Ullman Show, Buffalo Bill, Hill Street Blues, Quincy, and The Rockford Files. Short films he has shot have been prizewinners at many festivals, including The Los Angeles Short Film Festival, Crested Butte Reel Fest, East Lansing Film Festival, Instant Films, Waterfront Film Festival , and Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.
In addition to his work at CSU Long Beach, for four years Professor Anderson has been cinematographer-in-residence for the Summer Film Practicum at Grand Valley State University. He has taught in the Cinema Department at University of Southern California, the Theatre Department at Cornell University, and the Film Department at the State University of New York at Cortland. He has an AB and MA from Cornell University. He was a Cinematography Fellow at American Film Institute and is an alumnus of the Motion Picture Industry Training Program for Assistant Cameramen and is a member of the International Cinematographers Guild, IATSE Local 600.
A thirty-year Hollywood veteran, he was Director of Photography for Always Say Goodbye, first-prize winner at the first Hollywood Film Festival. He has been second-unit Director of Photography on Hook, Pretty Woman, Noises Off, Bird, Mad About You, and many other films. He has also worked on such films as To Live and Die in LA, Down by Law, The Long Riders, Oh God!, Broadcast News, Barfly, and Showgirls. His many television credits include Third Rock From the Sun, NewsRadio, Spin City, The Tracey Ullman Show, Buffalo Bill, Hill Street Blues, Quincy, and The Rockford Files. Short films he has shot have been prizewinners at many festivals, including The Los Angeles Short Film Festival, Crested Butte Reel Fest, East Lansing Film Festival, Instant Films, Waterfront Film Festival , and Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.
In addition to his work at CSU Long Beach, for four years Professor Anderson has been cinematographer-in-residence for the Summer Film Practicum at Grand Valley State University. He has taught in the Cinema Department at University of Southern California, the Theatre Department at Cornell University, and the Film Department at the State University of New York at Cortland. He has an AB and MA from Cornell University. He was a Cinematography Fellow at American Film Institute and is an alumnus of the Motion Picture Industry Training Program for Assistant Cameramen and is a member of the International Cinematographers Guild, IATSE Local 600.
Alan Jacobs
A founding trustee of the Sundance Institute, an original board member of the Independent Feature Project, and a former trustee of the American Film Institute. His independent film and video production company, The Film Foundry Inc., is a signatory at the Writers Guild of America.
He received his BA (English Literature) and MFA (Film) from Columbia University in New York. As an independent documentary filmmaker in New York City, Professor Jacobs has produced, directed, and/or edited over 20 films for: NY Newsreel; National Endowment for the Arts; WNET and PBL (public television); Carnegie Foundation; Bank Street College of Education; Educational Alliance; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; United States Information Agency; and the U.S. Air Force. One Step Away was screened at the New York Film Festival. Alabama March and Rip-off at the Top were broadcast on WNET; Studs Terkel: At Home on the Air received a citation at the Chicago Film Festival. Wishes, Lies and Dreams received a citation from the White House Conference on Children, and Only the Beginning was selected Best Foreign Film at the Moscow Film Festival.
At the behest of the University Film Study Center and in collaboration with Steven Ujlaki, Professor Jacobs organized and directed at Brandeis University a four-day symposium on the American documentary. Transitioning to Los Angeles and the mainstream film and television industry, Professor Jacobs had a first look deal with Sydney Pollack to develop and produce moderately budgeted narrative feature films. The film that emerged, Running Out (with Walter Matthau and Ellen Burstyn), led to a long-term relationship with Hallmark Entertainment where as Senior Vice-President in charge of the Los Angeles office, Professor Jacobs set up, developed and produced many feature films for major network and cable television. Respective casts included: Richard Dean Anderson, Clint Black, Peter Coyote, Timothy Dalton, Blythe Danner, Lou Gossett, Joe Mantegna, Elizabeth McGovern, Kathleen Quinlan, Rick Schroder, Tom Sizemore, and Billy Zane.
Professor Jacobs is currently an advisor to all students at FEA at CSULB and is responsible for teaching classes in documentary production, advanced narrative production, screenwriting, and the history of European cinema. He continues to be actively involved in his own documentary production and in the development of feature films for television.
A founding trustee of the Sundance Institute, an original board member of the Independent Feature Project, and a former trustee of the American Film Institute. His independent film and video production company, The Film Foundry Inc., is a signatory at the Writers Guild of America.
He received his BA (English Literature) and MFA (Film) from Columbia University in New York. As an independent documentary filmmaker in New York City, Professor Jacobs has produced, directed, and/or edited over 20 films for: NY Newsreel; National Endowment for the Arts; WNET and PBL (public television); Carnegie Foundation; Bank Street College of Education; Educational Alliance; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; United States Information Agency; and the U.S. Air Force. One Step Away was screened at the New York Film Festival. Alabama March and Rip-off at the Top were broadcast on WNET; Studs Terkel: At Home on the Air received a citation at the Chicago Film Festival. Wishes, Lies and Dreams received a citation from the White House Conference on Children, and Only the Beginning was selected Best Foreign Film at the Moscow Film Festival.
At the behest of the University Film Study Center and in collaboration with Steven Ujlaki, Professor Jacobs organized and directed at Brandeis University a four-day symposium on the American documentary. Transitioning to Los Angeles and the mainstream film and television industry, Professor Jacobs had a first look deal with Sydney Pollack to develop and produce moderately budgeted narrative feature films. The film that emerged, Running Out (with Walter Matthau and Ellen Burstyn), led to a long-term relationship with Hallmark Entertainment where as Senior Vice-President in charge of the Los Angeles office, Professor Jacobs set up, developed and produced many feature films for major network and cable television. Respective casts included: Richard Dean Anderson, Clint Black, Peter Coyote, Timothy Dalton, Blythe Danner, Lou Gossett, Joe Mantegna, Elizabeth McGovern, Kathleen Quinlan, Rick Schroder, Tom Sizemore, and Billy Zane.
Professor Jacobs is currently an advisor to all students at FEA at CSULB and is responsible for teaching classes in documentary production, advanced narrative production, screenwriting, and the history of European cinema. He continues to be actively involved in his own documentary production and in the development of feature films for television.
Michael Berlin
Professor Berlin holds a BA, MA, and Ph.D., and is a screenwriter and playwright.. He has written, produced, or consulted on more than one hundred and fifty television episodes, for series ranging from Miami Vice, MacGyver, Hunter, Cagney and Lacey, Walker, Texas Ranger and Wolf to Spielberg's Earth 2, Sisters, Murder She Wrote, Diagnosis: Murder, The Commish, Pointman, Beauty & The Beast, The Exile, Earth: Final Conflict, The Outer Limits, and many others. He has written animated series, Bruno the Kid, produced House Calls, a reality series and created pilots for CBS, Vice Girls, and ABC Lorne and Max. The Outer Limits which he produced won the Cable Ace Award as best Dramatic Show on Cable in its first year on the air. His Movies of the Week include Mafia Vendetta for CBS, Escape from Wildcat Canyon for Showtime and Night Visions for Fox TV and Disney. His feature films include Anguish, winner of six European Film Awards, Breaking Point for Paramount and Republic Pictures and the Robo-Warrior series for Paramount Pictures. He has worked as a script doctor for Paramount, Fox, Imagine Entertainment, and Hearst Entertainment.
Professor Berlin has co-written the book and the lyrics for a theatrical musical with Patti LaBelle attached to star. He recently sold his script, In My Father's House, a true story to Blackfire Films and he is attached to Executive Produce the film project. He is the film curator at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, has consulted with The Newport Beach Film Festival, The Orange County Museum of Art, and The Orange County Performing Arts Center and is the founder of The Jewish Film Festival of Orange County now entering its 15th year. He won the Distinguished Professor Award in 2005 for his class at UC Irvine's Extension, Sneak Previews with Michael Berlin which annually sells out its 350 seats.
Professor Berlin, a Phi Delta Kappa from Columbia University (1973), has been an active member of the Writers Guild of America since 1985, serving on the Credits Committee and as a reader for the Emmy Award considerations. Dr. Berlin was the Dean of Academic Affairs at The College for Developmental Studies in Los Angeles; he has taught at NYU, Ramapo College, Montclair State College, UCLA and Mills College of Education. He worked as a therapist and counselor in New York for many years, and his greatest accomplishments were serving as Director of NYC's Death & Dying Resource Team and then doing the original research for the first Hospice Program in the United States located in the Bronx, New York. Professor Berlin regularly teaches our courses in Media Writing, Short Script and Advanced Screenwriting, Adaptation, Diverse Media: Writing and Production, Television Program Symposium, American Film Genres, and Film & Culture.
Professor Berlin holds a BA, MA, and Ph.D., and is a screenwriter and playwright.. He has written, produced, or consulted on more than one hundred and fifty television episodes, for series ranging from Miami Vice, MacGyver, Hunter, Cagney and Lacey, Walker, Texas Ranger and Wolf to Spielberg's Earth 2, Sisters, Murder She Wrote, Diagnosis: Murder, The Commish, Pointman, Beauty & The Beast, The Exile, Earth: Final Conflict, The Outer Limits, and many others. He has written animated series, Bruno the Kid, produced House Calls, a reality series and created pilots for CBS, Vice Girls, and ABC Lorne and Max. The Outer Limits which he produced won the Cable Ace Award as best Dramatic Show on Cable in its first year on the air. His Movies of the Week include Mafia Vendetta for CBS, Escape from Wildcat Canyon for Showtime and Night Visions for Fox TV and Disney. His feature films include Anguish, winner of six European Film Awards, Breaking Point for Paramount and Republic Pictures and the Robo-Warrior series for Paramount Pictures. He has worked as a script doctor for Paramount, Fox, Imagine Entertainment, and Hearst Entertainment.
Professor Berlin has co-written the book and the lyrics for a theatrical musical with Patti LaBelle attached to star. He recently sold his script, In My Father's House, a true story to Blackfire Films and he is attached to Executive Produce the film project. He is the film curator at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, has consulted with The Newport Beach Film Festival, The Orange County Museum of Art, and The Orange County Performing Arts Center and is the founder of The Jewish Film Festival of Orange County now entering its 15th year. He won the Distinguished Professor Award in 2005 for his class at UC Irvine's Extension, Sneak Previews with Michael Berlin which annually sells out its 350 seats.
Professor Berlin, a Phi Delta Kappa from Columbia University (1973), has been an active member of the Writers Guild of America since 1985, serving on the Credits Committee and as a reader for the Emmy Award considerations. Dr. Berlin was the Dean of Academic Affairs at The College for Developmental Studies in Los Angeles; he has taught at NYU, Ramapo College, Montclair State College, UCLA and Mills College of Education. He worked as a therapist and counselor in New York for many years, and his greatest accomplishments were serving as Director of NYC's Death & Dying Resource Team and then doing the original research for the first Hospice Program in the United States located in the Bronx, New York. Professor Berlin regularly teaches our courses in Media Writing, Short Script and Advanced Screenwriting, Adaptation, Diverse Media: Writing and Production, Television Program Symposium, American Film Genres, and Film & Culture.
