Student Organizations Quiet Corner Film Festival, Student Television Network, NFFTY, FILM PRODUCTION All American High School Film Festival ARTS & COMMUNICATION
CAREER PATHWAYS Updated 1/2020* Killingly High School Ms. Donna Grant, LMSW, Career Center Coordinator 860-779-6663 • [email protected] Killingly High School 226 Putnam Pike, Dayville, CT 06241 • www.killinglyschools.org Career Pathway: Film Production FILM PRODUCTION Career Cluster: Arts & Communication Students interested in the Film Production Pathway will have an To complete the Film Production Career Pathway, students must complete each of opportunity to submit their finished the five required courses within Section 1 and 1.5 credits from Section 2. films to Killingly’s own Quiet Corner To complete this Advanced Pathway, students must complete all required courses Film Festival where they will compete in section 1 and earn a total of 4 credits in Section 2. against other area high school filmmakers. The QCFF was created for the public exhibition of short films created by aspiring student filmmakers Section 1- Required Courses Credits Earned at KHS College Credits Earned who want to bring their imagination, Intro to Video Technology .5 vision and filmmaking skills to life. Advanced Video & Effects .5 Editing Occupations Related to the Film Film Production 1 Production Pathway: Producer, Director, Director of Photography, Digital Photography I .5 Cinematographer, Screenwriter, Graphic Design I .5 Camera Operator, Grip, Gaffer, Editor, (This requirement will be Field Recording Mixer, Re-recording PGR 1.8 – Job Shadow in Film implemented for all students Mixer, Film Editor, Production Designer, Production in the graduating class of 2021 Set Designer, Makeup Artist, Visual and beyond) Effects Artist, Music Supervisor, Section 2- Additional Courses Credits Earned at KHS Composer
Music Technology I .5 Units Covered: Basic Concepts & Music Technology II .5 Equipment, Film Theory: Montage, Theater Arts I .5 Mise en Scene, Kuleshov Effect, Preproduction: Genre, Story, Character, Theater Arts II .5 Script Writing, Production: Casting, Sociology .5 Location Scouting, Filming, Post Psychology .5 Production: A/V Syncing, Editing & Compositing, Audio Mixing, Graphics, Contemporary Issues .5 Distribution Creative Writing .5 Communications & Speech .5 Professional Organizations This Pathway Opens to You: Digital Photography II .5 SAG-AFTRA, Academy of Motion Graphic Design II .5 Picture Arts & Sciences, Writers Intro to Data Science .5 Guild of America, American Society of App Creators .5 Cinematographers
Film Production Teacher: Mr. Dan Durand, Room 1716 [email protected]