SAE Institute Opens Digital Film Program in the Heart of Hollywood
Worldwide media institution draws from local Hollywood directors, producers and screenwriters to offer the Digital Film Production Diploma at the Los Angeles campus. Shooting begins January 2009.

LOS ANGELES, CA, November 17, 2008 /24-7PressRelease/ -- At 6565 Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood, California you'll find SAE Institute in an glass front building lined with palm trees and students. Just one of over 50 locations around the world SAE-LA has situated itself within the local music and film industries by drawing talent directly from the industry and using that talent to shape its students to be exactly the kind of working professionals that the local market demands.

"Opening a film program in Hollywood is a pretty serious thing." Admits the Course Coordinator for Digital Film, D.A. Strawder, "This is where it all happens! Some days, literally on this street and in the building it happens where students have to walk around location shoots on their way into class. Then as graduates they walk out these doors with their Diploma in one hand and their reel in the other, and are immediately in the most competitive film and television markets in the world. Just like our audio engineering programs, when we staff our film faculty it's all about finding people who are doing this for a living, and are excited enough about what they do to share it with our students."

Instructors sharing their experience goes well beyond lecture and homework. Following SAE Institute's long tradition of individual, hands-on training that is facilitated by having a large number smaller campuses, the Digital Film Production (DFP) curriculum is project-based. Students shoot, edit, produce and direct multiple projects, all of which are screened in the SAE-LA dubbing stage for students and faculty. Hollywood screenwriters lead monthly writer's room for all the student projects, cinematographers train and certify students on various cameras, and each student is issued their own Apple MacBook Pro with Final Cut Studio, so when editing either in class or working on their projects it's all designed to give them the most realistic experience possible.

Class size is limited to thirty students for the nine-month program. Similar to how film is taught at sister campuses in Australia, Germany, the UAE, and the UK, students are able to focus their training by taking different tasks within production teams during their larger projects. Moreover, SAE Institute in Los Angeles has given is Audio Technology Program a strong post production focus, so film students work closely with audio students during the scoring, ADR, foley and mixing sessions.

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