Franklin & Marshall College

Video production courses at Franklin & Marshall College offer a range of approaches and modes, from documentary to experimental to narrative.  Students make films in the classroom setting, as well as in advanced independent studies.    

Production courses enable students to fully comprehend the form via practical exercises and final projects.  Students from across campus, such as Anthropology, Economics, English and Art History majors, enroll in video production courses to elaborate their course of study.  

Please visit our YouTube Channel to view examples of student work.  

2012 Cell Phone Video Contest Winners

In February 2012, F&M students were given 48 hours to write, shoot, and edit a short film using their cell phone cameras. Forced to creatively incorporate a prop (red balloon), reference (Benjamin Franklin), and line (Cool Hand Luke's "What we've got here is [a] failure to communicate"), the winning students work can be found below.  You can see all submitted films here. Read more about the contest on our Blog!

1st Place - Thomas Dolan, Marco Santana, Amir Ouazzani

2nd Place - Mike DiAntonio. Lydia Olson, Brandon Cunningham

3rd Place - Saif Uddin, Jess Cadorette, Daniyal Chowdhury

Fall 2011 Student Film Festival

In September 2011, the best student works from the 2010-11 academic year were screened.  Here are some exemplary films.  You can see all festival films here.  

Natural Path - by Jonathan Cruz [Experimental Documentary]

A Payphone - by Jaclyn Anderson [Experimental]

Bright Eyes: Gold Mine Gutted - by Liz Meley [Music Video]

Spring 2011 Student Film Festival

In January 2011, the best student works from the Fall 2010 semester were screened.  Here are some exemplary films.  You can see all festival films here.  

FLUTTER - by Sid Ganji, Shai Ahmed, and Shaishab Ahmed [Narrative]

THE BUMP CLUB - by Jesse Hope  [Experimental]

 
ARNOLD - Dabney Rice, Tracy Hahn, and Matt Tomlinson [Narrative]