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The Motion/Picture/Video/ Theatre (MPVT) option in the School of Film & Photography is a comprehensive program encompassing film studies, technical skills, and production processes and provides a solid foundation for our students to achieve successful careers in the highly competitive film industry. Our students are exposed to a variety of courses ranging from theatre and production processes, acting, writing, editing, directing, cinematography, lighting, sound and production design. The final year of the program is capped off with an individual senior project that is approved and developed in consultation with a team of faculty advisors.
The curriculum begins with first-year foundation courses emphasizing
an understanding and analysis of motion pictures,
and
theatre and introduces students to the actual production
process. Students complete a series
of eight skills classes related to film and theatre
production. As this major is in high demand, the department implements a gate system (see MPVT
gate requirements below) in which only students who meet specific grade point averages in required courses are accepted into the program.
In the third year, students who qualify by attaining
a minimum average GPA in their MTA requirements in the
first two years build upon these basics in production
process workshops that are required of all students
in fiction, non-fiction, and stage. Additional course
work in advanced film studies as well as professional
practices courses and internship options compliment
the upper division requirements.
In the final year, student work on a capstone senior project that is
approved by the entire faculty and developed in consultation
with a team of faculty advisors assigned to the project
through a workshop process.
Fall 2008 Equipment Check Out Schedule.
MPVT Gate Requirements
The School of Film & Photography MPVT option will accept no more than 48 students into the sophomore year based in part on the students' GPA for the five required MTA freshman courses.
The MPVT gate GPA calculation is based solely on grades in MTA 101IA, MTA 102, MTA 103RA, MTA 104, and MTA 218D. In addition, to successfully pass through the gate, students must have completed 15 credits in the University core (including ENGL 121W and University Seminar) by the end of their freshman year. Admission to the sophomore year also requires submission of a portfolio. The portfolio will consist of one film selected from the individual projects shot in MTA 102 and a written statement. Candidates must submit a completed application form by April 30th for admission to the sophomore year the following fall semester. Portfolios are due on the last day of spring semester finals week. The department will notify students for the following semester on or before June 30th. When any of the five required first-year MTA courses have been attempted at MSU, a student's grade may change only by retaking that specific course in Media and Theatre Arts (i.e., no transfer credits or other substitutions for the specific course are permitted). In addition, admission to the upper division 300 and 400 level courses in Motion Picture/Video/Theatre requires a combined GPA of 3.0 in all departmental classes required at the 100 and 200 levels.
Transferring Students
For the Motion Picture/Video/Theatre option, there are
specific classes that are offered only in sequence.
Any prospective transfer student should send a list
of courses that he/she has completed elsewhere or is
in the process of completing, for evaluation by the
Department of Media and Theatre Arts well in advance
of registering at MSU.
Students who intend to transfer to MTA should seek
prior approval of credit taken elsewhere
in order to be certain that these credits will count
toward the degree in Motion Picture/Video/Theatre. In
no case may a class completed with a grade below "C"
elsewhere be applied toward the departmental requirements
for the degree in either Motion Picture/Video/Theatre
or Photography. In no case may a class completed with
a grade below "C" elsewhere be applied toward
the departmental requirements for the degree in either
Motion Picture/Video/Theatre.
Any class submitted by an entering student in the Motion
Picture/Video/Theatre option for transfer toward any
of the first-year requirements must be approved by a
MPVT professor of the course for which transfer credit
is sought and the MTA department chair on the basis
of a review of the syllabus of the course taken elsewhere.
A challenge exam may be required for any transfer credit
at the discretion of the course professor. All students
enrolled in Media and Theatre Arts will be assigned
an academic advisor.
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