COMMUNICATION
COMM-550
Financing and Marketing Independent Productions (3)
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate
(FM, MS) The non-theatrical film, television, and video industries are multifaceted, dynamic, and enormously complex. This course teaches film and video producers how to finance and market their productions. The course examines different financing and cost recoupment mechanisms that programmers use in building their programming lineup. The focus is on contract production, co-production and production acquisition as typical deal structures used by major programmers. Usually offered every fall. Prerequisite: minimum 2.5 GPA.