Week 2: Casting

Character Identity and Diversity The casting process draws talent from around and beyond the greater Philadelphia area. As student-producers expand their production teams by casting actors, paying attention to character identity and diversity in many forms helps to guide the process. Here, author Jahz Branch discusses her team’s casting process and the article The Racial… Continue Reading Week 2: Casting

Week 1: Narrative Strategies

How does narrative work? Our Producing and Directing semester begins with evaluating scripts. Are they unique? Are they complete? Are they producible? As student-producers are choosing scripts to revise and ultimately produce, understanding how narrative projects work is essential. Here, author Danny Vagnoni responds to the article Emotional Curves and Linear Narratives by Patrick Keating.… Continue Reading Week 1: Narrative Strategies

Welcome!

Welcome to our Critical-Creative Blog! Our goal is to reflect on our creative production decisions through critical lenses provided by media scholarship. Blog entries will be posted about various aspects of narrative television/media production as we move through the stages of preproduction, production and postproduction. Fall, 2022: Our semester starts with a focus on pitching… Continue Reading Welcome!