Writing and Producing Web Video
This course is offered in collaboration with the School of Continuing Education. You will be redirected to the SCE website to proceed with registration. Current Columbia students can go directly to SSOL to register.
FILM 4033Q
3 Points
3 Points
Session II: July 8 - Aug 16
M, T, W: 7:30 - 10 pm
Instructor: Frank Chindamo
More content is viewed on the web than in movie theaters and on televisions combined. Webisodes are the world’s fastest-growing art form. Billions of dollars are being made through web video, it is the easiest form of cinematic arts to produce, and yet it is the least studied thus far.
What is a web series, or more importantly what can your web series be? With the guidance of renowned web video instructor Frank Chindamo, as well as weekly discussions and meetings with established creators, students will explore the art and business of this emerging formThree aspects will be emphasized:
Writing a webisode series script: Students will learn what makes a viable and potentially profitable web series and script one of their own.
Learning from New Media experts and YouTube personalities: Students will meet industry pros and hear what they did right – and wrong. Learn from their mistakes as well as victories.
Producing a web video series: Students will produce a web series, using the principles learned to know what can make it successful.
The goal of the course is for each student to leave the classroom with a web series, a set of short scripts, or at the very least, outlines for an immediately producible web-series. Additional course work includes basic production, weekly viewings and analysis of successful web series.
Admissions
While there are no formal prerequisites to the course, priority will be given to students who have completed the Television Writing Intensive.
Tuition & Fees
Columbia's standard tuition rate for 2013 is $1,454 per point. This is a 3-credit course, so the total tuition is $4,362. For more information, please visit http://ce.columbia.edu/summer/tuition-and-fees.
Materials Fee: $30
Please note that this fee is in addition to the tuition rate and standard enrollment fees for the course. For more information, please see School of Continuing Education Summer Sessions Tuition & Fees.
Watch Adjunct Professor Frank Chindamo's new web series Ms. Right:
About the Instructor
Frank Chindamo has been an Adjunct Professor at USC, Chapman University and UCLA. He literally created the study of web video in 2004. His students include three of YouTube’s most-viewed, including Freddie Wong, Kickstarter world record holder and YouTube top- ten star with over 2 million subscribers, and 5 Second Films. Chindamo co-wrote the e-book on Internet Stardom, now a textbook at USC and Chapman.
In 2010, Chindamo produced a video for TED with Titanic and Avatar producer Jon Landau. He has a long track record of writing/producing short comedic and advertainment videos for the web and TV networks worldwide, including HBO, Showtime, CBS, PBS, Fox, MyNetworks, the BBC, CBC, Playboy, MTV and Comedy Central. This year he is producing AlrightTV’s Mr. Right series with numerous YouTube stars including Totally Sketch, Glozell, and HotForWords. His work includes the multi-award nominated series Mr. Wrong, and the Web TV show, "Upwardly Mobile: The Pursuit of App-iness."
Chindamo’s mobile video company Fun Little Movies currently hosts a top-deck channel of comedy videos on Sprint phones. FLM was the first U.S. company to produce comedic films for mobile phones worldwide, and launched on Sprint TV in 2004. By 2007, he was nominated by Ernst & Young for Entrepreneur of the Year.
FLM has been featured in Forbes Magazine, The L.A. Times, The New York Times, USA Today, The New York Post, the BBC, Washington Post, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, AdAge, Mashable, CBS and Wired Magazine.
They have won over 30 awards for their work. In Feb. 2009, they took the Grand Prize at Mobile Content World in Barcelona at the MoFilm awards, given by Kevin Spacey.
Chindamo received his Film BFA from NYU and his Screenwriting & Producing MFA from Columbia University.
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Columbia University School of the Arts offers MFA degrees in Film, Theatre Arts, Visual Arts, and Writing, an MA degree in Film Studies, a joint JD/MFA degree in Theatre Management & Producing, and a PhD degree in Theatre History, Literature, and Theory.
Columbia University School of the Arts offers MFA degrees in Film, Theatre Arts, Visual Arts, and Writing, an MA degree in Film Studies, a joint JD/MFA degree in Theatre Management & Producing, and a PhD degree in Theatre History, Literature, and Theory.