When there is no professional set to use for learning, Gay said, that can lead student filmmakers to take on too many roles in filmmaking or cut corners in production and not produce the best possible movie. “The impetus behind this program is that we’ve been offering filmmaking for a long time and our students are making solid films, but what we found when we visited our student sets is that they don’t look like professional sets,” said Andrew Gay, principal architect of “The Crew Experience” and associate professor and chair of communication, media and cinema at SOU. The university recently announced the launch of “The Crew Experience,” a 12-credit, one-term course that makes for a film and media program unlike any other in the Pacific Northwest. SOU course focuses lens on real-world filmmaking with experienced mentors and top-of-the-line equipmentįilm students at Southern Oregon University are dusting off their camera lenses - after a two-year pandemic delay - in a new course that teaches how to professionally shoot movies.
