University of North Alabama - Diorama Yearbook

“NextstoD... UNA partners with UCLA Film Festival toundtT George Lindsey and UNA Continuing Studies Director Dan Throgmorton announced at the 2004 festival an interesting opportunity for students who want to become movie stars or moguls when ihev grow up. Under a new inter-university partnership, UNA film students will soon be traveling to UCLA to study the entertainment industry and to get some real HolK ' wood experience. According to Throgmorton, film students will begin taking UNA prerequisite classes to kick off a certificate program offered by UCLA. The program will culminate with a 12-week summer internship in which the students will actually live on the LA campus. " Its [UCLA ' s] certificate programs in film, television and entertainment studies are the gold standard in the industry, bar none, " said Throgmorton, vvho used his former employment at the California university to help set up the prestigious partnership. " If they had had that when 1 wont lo school here, I would ha\e been the first one on the bus, " Lindsey said. Film students are required to take a mini- mum of five courses in the field of their choice: development, pre-production, production lor fi film and television and post-production for film television. In addition, UNA will offer elective classes in acting, cinematography, film history and appreciation, film theory and directing. Students participating in the certificate program will also take an online, industrv role- D.in Throgmorton playing game entitled " The Business of Hollywood, " which will help ease them into the demands of their internship. " It really immerses OLD FRIENDS. Lindsey and tmest Borgnine exchange greetings PAVING THE WAY. (nj;/i() Jane Kagon conducts a workshop. ”