Advanced Production and Distribution

This capstone unit integrates advanced on-set techniques, post-production workflows, and distribution strategies to take a project from storyboard to deliverable. Students will synthesize creative and technical decisions—camera, lens, lighting, sound, editing, DCP delivery, festival strategy, campaign development, and archiving—building on prior units to produce professional-ready media and preservation plans.

Learning Objectives

• Analyze genre, tone, mise-en-scène, location, and production-design choices to create a complete pre-production package (storyboards, shot lists, and production notes) that maintains continuity and screen direction
• Apply technical criteria to select cameras, lenses, lighting setups, microphones, and on-set sound procedures (levels, room tone, and pickup patterns) and implement those choices on a mock or real set to meet specified image and audio quality targets
• Demonstrate professional post-production workflows by performing continuity and montage editing, sound editing and design, and cutting-room procedures, and produce a final master formatted for digital cinema delivery (including DCP) that meets distribution specifications
• Evaluate festival and independent distribution options, build a campaign roadmap with supporting creatives, and develop archiving and backup protocols to ensure long-term preservation and readiness for release