UVU’s Digital Cinema Production program gives students the opportunity to make multiple projects each semester. As they advance in the program, their work becomes more advanced, and the expectations for quality and technical skill increase. Each graduating senior is required to participate in a Senior Capstone Project that is expected to be at a professional quality level. Advanced student projects are often accepted into competitive film festivals and other competitions throughout the world and function as a “calling card” for future professional opportunities. Capstone Projects can be a narrative short film, a documentary or other non-fiction film, or a feature-length screenplay.
Senior Capstone Feature Screenplay Table Read
Each year professional actors participate in a table read of excerpts from feature length screenplays written by graduating seniors. Watch actors such as Debra Jo Rupp (That 70s Show), Brian Dietzen (NCIS), Kevin Rankin (Justified, Breaking Bad), and others participate in our annual event on April 29, 2020 (Left to Right, top to bottom: Jill Farley, Kevin Rankin, UVU Professor Duane Andersen, Terryn Westbrook, Kristin Slaysman, UVU Professor Alex Nibley, Brian Dietzen, Bob Turton, Mark David Christenson, Debra Jo Rupp).
“There continues to be more kids work with us from UVU than I'd say all of the other colleges combined.”
— T. C. Christensen (Director, Producer, Cinematographer)
Senior Digital Cinema Production students spend the last year working on their capstone project, which is a culmination of all of the work they have done to this point in their academic career.
Marie
Buskers
The Villa
Mend
This Is How We Roll
“UVU gave me the direction I needed to go out and produce my first feature film, which happened to be a box office success.”
— Jake Van Wagoner, Impractical Jokers Producer
Talk to one of our advisors to find out how to become a Digital Cinema Production student.
