Entertainment courses

Considering the lucrative field of TV commercials or seeking to improve your confidence in personal or business communications? In this course, participants take part in simulated, recorded auditions for both "slice of life" dialogue and "spokesperson"…

Learn to get comfortable in front of the lens. Exercises begin with on-camera interviews so students can view their screen images in playback. Instruction focuses on understanding technical and emotional adjustments required for working in front of the camera…

Gain acting tools and techniques to help you create true-to-life characters with emotional depth. In this workshop, you learn how to draw emotional material from an array of tools that are both external and internal to the actor. Those tools include sense…

In this introduction to acting, learn fundamental performance techniques and exercises, including relaxation, concentration, sense memory, emotional recall, improvisation, character tasks and text analysis. You then apply these techniques by rehearsing and…

This course explores the sports documentary and docu-series space through both a creative and commercial lens. Students will examine how powerful sports storytelling is developed, financed, produced, and distributed, while also understanding the real business…

Social Media Video Strategy is an 11-week course focused on creating structured short-form vertical video for platforms such as TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts. Students examine how media has evolved from print and broadcast to algorithm-driven…

This course examines the creative, financial, logistical, and legal realities of filming on location from the perspective of the independent producer. While the primary focus is on location-based production, students will analyze how location decisions…