PRODUCTION INFO FOR WPTV
During their first year, WPTV students produce a variety of short films in a collaborative environment. Under traditional circumstances, WPTV students use SFTV provided camera, sound, and lighting and grip equipment to produce multiple short films while rotating through the roles of writer-producer, director, cinematographer, sound mixer, grip, and gaffer, and script supervisor/editor on each other’s projects. When remote, students explore visual storytelling and all production and post-production roles by producing several short films with equipment, performers, and crew available where they live.
To prepare for the third-year thesis project, WPTV students should participate in the production scheduling meeting managed by Production Administration on the first Friday of each semester. Students state their preferred production dates during the upcoming semester to get a sense of overall equipment needs at these meetings. The priority window for WPTV thesis productions typically starts the week after Thanksgiving during Fall Semester and continues through the second full week of February during Spring Semester. WPTV theses use cameras available for advanced projects at SFTV. WPTV students may select whichever production dates they prefer but are not guaranteed a specific camera regardless of chosen week.
Equipment access is dependent on the class you are in and a lottery system. Most thesis shoots happen on weekends, and camera and equipment lotteries happen Thursdays two weeks before the shooting weekend.