Film & Video Production
The film and video production program is centered around the craft of storytelling using industry-standard methods of television and motion picture production. Throughout the course of study, students learn all aspects of creating a movie from start to finish: ideation, writing a screenplay, preproduction planning, cinematography and audio recording, directing actors, editing, sound mixing and scoring, color correction, and distribution. Students have opportunities to work both individually and as a group and are encouraged to produce films for entry into film festivals.
Creativity abounds in Blair's centrally located Chiang-Elghanayan Center for Innovation and Collaboration, where students can leverage state-of-the-art video and audio production equipment in the building’s media lab and recording studio, complete with a built-in green screen and automated light grid.
Festival Success
Students submit their films and videos to more than 10 nationwide festivals each year, in addition to Blair's annual student film festival. Below is a list of recent laurels awarded to Blair's student videographers.
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5 years from water
Directed and edited by Thao Nguyen '21
Cinematography by Gator Hopkins '21 & Aniketh Bandi '22
Video coming soon.
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Airstream
Directed by Gabi Bernstein '21
Cinematography by Chris Tung '22
Edited by Committee.
Video coming soon.
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Squashed
Directed by Youssif Mostafa '22
Cinematography by DB Won '22 & Shea Garvie '23
Edited by Committee.
Video coming soon.
Music Video
By Thao Nguyen '21
"Vienna" by Billy Joel
2020 Blair Film Festival Winner
Real
By Thao Nguyen '21 & Gator Hopkins '21
1st Place, 2020 HMS Games (Team Kelley)
Ice Breakers Commercial
Group Project
Music Video
By Gator Hopkins '21
"Marlboro Nights" by Lonely God
2nd Place, 2020 Blair Film Festival
Smartwater Commercial
Group Project
2019 Blair Film Festival Award Winner
Philly
Group Project
Produced during the Spring Art Trip to Philadelphia
Additional Award-Winning Student Films
Music Video
By Thao Nguyen '21
"Vienna" by Billy Joel
2020 Blair Film Festival Winner
Music Video
By Gator Hopkins '21
"Marlboro Nights" by Lonely God
2nd Place, 2020 Blair Film Festival
Real
By Thao Nguyen '21 & Gator Hopkins '21
1st Place, 2020 HMS Games (Team Kelley)
Smartwater Commercial
Group Project
2019 Blair Film Festival Award Winner
Ice Breakers Commercial
Group Project
Philly
Group Project
Produced during the Spring Art Trip to Philadelphia