Created
as an entry point for all incoming School of Cinematic Arts undergraduate
students, Reality Starts Here
combines conversations, panel discussions and workshops to chronicle
up-to-the-minute facets of an industry undergoing rapid transformation, with a
focus on existing and emerging paradigms of creative expression and their
relationship to the media-making process. Drawing on the rich and vibrant
community of talent in Los Angeles, the course is at once an opportunity for
students to engage with timely ideas and technologies, as well as a chance to
begin to hone one’s professional skills in preparation for a future role as a
writer, director, designer, theorist, animator, producer, historian or scholar.
Students
will emerge from the course with a broad and embodied understanding of
foundational ideas, practices and resources that they will encounter over the
duration of their career as students at SCA and beyond in an era of rapidly
changing media forms. Students will have
opportunities to meet a sampling of USC faculty from across the divisions.
Students will also leave the course with an enriched knowledge of one another:
by sharing both the process and end products of their individual creative
engagements, students will connect across divisional boundaries, discovering
productive overlaps and building the foundations for lasting collaborative
partnerships.
