The B.F.A. is the Park School’s degree for students who
want to develop expertise across a range of media, including film,
photography, video, and fine arts. Today’s digital media
environment often requires professionals to be skilled in multiple
mediums. Photographers may be asked by an assignment editor to
record video on a digital SLR. Filmmakers’ productions may be
bound for theatrical distribution, the home screen, or the
internet.
Beginning freshman year, you'll take classes in photography and
film production (bring your own digital SLR camera and light
meter), and you'll spend time in the darkroom or at a video editing
station. You'll also venture into the television studios for video
production classes and trek over to the art studio for lessons in
2-D design or drawing.
The B.F.A. program will test your ability to juggle projects, meet
tight deadlines, and manage your creative energies. The goal is to
provide you with the skills and background you need to expand and
express your creative vision, and develop career skills in multiple
visual media.
In this program, you’ll have the opportunity to travel across
the country or around the world to get hands-on experience. Our Los
Angeles program arranges internships at film studios, production
and post-production companies, providing a network of real industry
contacts that will help you after graduation. Students in the Photo
Italy course travel to Italy for several weeks of hands-on
photography in the summer, and other students have studied abroad
across the globe.
Recent graduates are working in art and production at companies
like Bull Moose Pictures LLC and R/GA advertising agency in New
York City.