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Film & TV Academy

The Viking Film and TV Academy is a four-year program designed to give students passionate about the entertainment industry a cutting edge in the college admissions process, internships, and careers. 

The first year of this course focuses on an essential aspect of making films...storytelling! We start with the basics of screenwriting: idea generation, structure, exposition, scene propulsion, character building, dialogue and rewriting. Students create one original film and one television script logline, then workshop the ideas into a treatment (2-4 pgs.). The goal of the course is to successfully pitch their movies and TV shows to the group. The students accepted to the program will have an excellent opportunity to develop their artistic, critical literacy, and career skills, which will build a foundation for eventually sharpening their skills as film directors, cinematographers, editors, gaffers, grips, boom operators, sound designers, screenwriters, and production assistants.