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Film & Media—Production Concentration
Film & Media—Production Concentration, Film & Media—Studies Concentration, Applied Film and Media Major, Minor
Degree Overview
The end. As the credits roll, you blink back into reality and stretch out of your seat. For two hours, you’ve walked in someone else’s shoes.
To create that immersive experience requires visionaries whose technical skill matches their storytelling drive. It requires you.
At Calvin, you’ll have the opportunity to do real filmmaking, gaining practical experience in directing, acting, editing, and more. In media production classes, you'll learn how to guide an idea to its full expression. You'll learn what separates a merely good screenplay from a world-changing one and how to manage cameras and audio tools to best tell a story. When you graduate, you’ll have all the skills and experience you need to make your mark.
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Film & Media—Production Concentration
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What can you do with a major in film and media studies?
As a CAS major you have the opportunity study audio/visual media and how it communicates in film, television, radio, new media platforms, advertising, and other digital media arts. The rise of online video hosting services, podcasts, independent film studios, video advertising, and other digital media production centers is making these creative and technical skills more relevant every day.
- The film industry is one of the largest players in the global entertainment field and its value is growing by the billions every year. Film majors go on to produce big budget movies, compelling social justice documentaries, influential advertisements, and countless other multimedia ventures. Jump-start your career by working with filmmakers in Grand Rapids, collaborating on projects with your professors, or even completing an internship in Los Angeles.
- As new web companies are beginning to produce high-quality television content to compete with cable company giants, television studios are evolving to keep up. Use your production skills to break into this rapidly developing field.
- Other institutions like youth ministry, nonprofits, and eCommerce sites need creative individuals who know how to use digital media to reach a diverse array of audiences.
Here are just a few of the careers you could consider:
- film maker
- producer
- director
- editor
- cinematographer
- critic sound technician
- screenwriter
- film and media analyst
- educator
- media/web producer
See job placement rates for Calvin grads.
Film & Media—Studies Concentration
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Careers
What can you do with a major in film and media studies?
As a CAS major you have the opportunity study audio/visual media and how it communicates in film, television, radio, new media platforms, advertising and other digital media arts. The rise of online video hosting services, podcasts, independent film studios, video advertising, and other digital media production centers is making these creative and technical skills more relevant every day.
- The film industry is one of the largest players in the global entertainment field and its value is growing by the billions every year. Film majors go on to produce big budget movies, compelling social justice documentaries, influential advertisements, and countless other multimedia ventures. Jump-start your career by working with filmmakers in Grand Rapids, collaborating on projects with your professors, or even completing an internship in Los Angeles.
- As new web companies are beginning to produce high-quality television content to compete with cable company giants, television studios are evolving to keep up. Use your production skills to break into this rapidly developing field.
- Other institutions like youth ministry, nonprofits, and eCommerce sites need creative individuals who know how to use digital media to reach a diverse array of audiences.
Here are just a few of the careers you could consider:
- film maker
- producer
- director
- editor
- cinematographer
- critic sound technician
- screenwriter
- film and media analyst
- educator
- media/web producer
See job placement rates for Calvin grads.
Applied Film and Media Major
Minor
Advisor
Samuel Smartt
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- samuel.smartt@calvin.edu
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Showcase your skills
Share your creativity with Calvin’s supportive film community. The Calvin Media Showcase screens the best work made by film and media majors each semester.


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