Production Option - Film and Animation BFA Option


Production Option
Film and Animation BFA
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School of Film and Animation
Develop and refine your creative approach as you produce innovative and artistic cinema.
Overview
As a student in the production option within the film and animation BFA program, you will explore fictional, documentary and experimental live-action filmmaking. With insightful and accomplished faculty teaching in state-of-the-art facilities, students receive an unparalleled film education. This option is part of the Film and Animation BFA program.
This path focuses on production through visual and sound artistry utilizing hands-on experience with the camera, editing, and sound equipment. Students will understand the aesthetic principles of the art form and develop a range of technical skills while producing creative work from day one until graduation. Students also have access to labs and classrooms equipped with the latest software, technology, sound, and screening options to complete any project.
RIT offers more production experience than its peers and, as a result, draws students from all over the world. Students write scripts, recruit actors and crew, research documentary subjects, edit, mix soundtracks, live through critiques and screenings, and wait for the applause. This option requires many exercises and a minimum of three significant works, one of which is a year-long senior thesis. Students have been finalists in the Student Academy Awards while multiple production alumni have won Primetime Emmy Awards due in part to the extensive practical experience they received at RIT.
Graduates are qualified to begin careers in the industry or create their own independent productions. Work produced by students and alumni has been consistently honored with awards at international and national festivals.
A virtual career exploration event
50+ future-focused workshops for rising high school seniors to plan for college.
Industries
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Movies, TV, and Music -
Writing and Editing
Careers and Experiential Learning
Typical Job Titles
Agent | Chief Lighting Technician |
Creative Director | Director |
Documentary Filmmaker | Experimental Artist |
Producer | Production Manager |
Production Sound Mixer | Supervising Sound Editor |
Visual Effects Supervisor | Writer |
Salary and Career Information for Film and Animation BFA
Cooperative Education and Internships
What makes an RIT education exceptional? It’s the ability to complete with real, relevant career experience that sets you apart. In the College of Art and Design experiential learning includes cooperative education and internships, international experiences, multidisciplinary projects, industry partnerships, and more. Participating in these opportunities is not only possible at RIT, but passionately encouraged.
Cooperative education, internships, and other experiential learning opportunities are optional but strongly encouraged for students in the BFA in film and animation.
Creative Industry Day
RIT’s Office of Career Services and Cooperative Education hosts Creative Industry Day, which connects students majoring in art, design, film and animation, photography, and select computing majors with companies, organizations, creative agencies, design firms, and more. You'll be able to network with company representatives and interview directly for open co-op and permanent employment positions.
Featured Work
Sizzle Reel
A collection of student work from Rochester Institute of Technology's School of Film and Animation, which offers a BFA and MFA in Film and Animation and a BS in Motion Picture Science.
Documentary Film
Annika Servin
Annika Servin '18 (Film and Animation; Photojournalism) was a co-winner in the Documentary category of the 2019 CILECT North America Best Film Award competition for her thesis documentary film, ...
Optimal Filmmaking Setting
Students studying Production at RIT have access to well-equipped soundstages to shoot scenes for their films.
Featured Profiles
RIT, NTID team up to create pioneering film
Students Anna McClanahan (BFA) and Gabriel Ponte-Fleary (MFA) brought together the deaf/hard-of-hearing and hearing communities in creating their finalist film for a Coca-Cola-sponsored program.
Alumni Spotlight: Harlan Doolittle
As visual effects (VFX) and assistant editor with Ryan Murphy Productions, Harlan Doolittle ’14 has worked on The Prom, American Horror Story and much more.
Gold Standard in Previsualization
Chris Edwards '97 is the CEO and co-founder of THE THIRD FLOOR — an award-winning visualization studio that has done work on Game of Thrones, Star Wars, 19 Marvel films and much more.
Admission Requirements
This option is part of the Film and Animation BFA. Please visit the degree program page for admission requirements.
Learn about admissions, cost, and financial aid
Latest News
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April 29, 2022
Pioneering RIT and NTID collaboration garners the Coca-Cola Refreshing Films Grand Prize
Say Cheese, a pioneering, heartfelt film directed and produced by two RIT students, took home the top prize in the Coca-Cola Refreshing Films program announced during the final night of CinemaCon in Las Vegas late Thursday. The project featured the combined creative efforts of students, faculty, and staff in RIT’s School of Film and Animation and NTID.
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April 23, 2022
Three student teams push the boundaries to improve society in new competition
Three student teams showed what technology, the arts, and design means at RIT. They designed technology to help astronauts keep physically fit in space, incorporated virtual reality to enhance signing and captioning support for the Deaf, and built a modern sculpture of the human body made of computers.
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April 21, 2022
Production student exhibits video installation at Ann Arbor Film Festival
Alexandra McDonald ’22 showcased her experimental film, "Amalgamate," at the Academy Award-qualifying festival, and is set to also display it at Imagine RIT: Creativity and Innovation Festival April 23.