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Campus Cut

'Campus Cut' is a column about film life at Columbia. Look out for it every other Thursday to get information on how to get into the Columbia film scene, rent free equipment, and show your films to an audience wider than your parents. Frances Bodomo—a senior and a film studies major—has done the grunt work so that you don't have to: from applying for Gatsby Grants to learning the hard way how to book spaces on campus and off, she's pretty much done it all and has her battle scars to prove it. This semester she'll be focusing on how to go from pre-production to production, and make a noteworthy short film without dishing out the dollars. Because, with the resources available to us as Columbians, it can be done!

Place, props, and the power of production

At the next level of filmmaking, there are two words you must keep in your breast pocket: production and design. This means everything from costumes, to set design, to props, to anything visual in your movie.

By Frances Bodomo | Oct 28 10:21 pm ET

At the next level of filmmaking, there are two words you must keep in your breast pocket: production and design. This means everything from costumes, to set design, to props, to anything visual in your movie.

Aspiring filmmakers: A case for classes

As someone who is one class away from her B.A. in film studies, and as someone who has made her fair share of student films, I can safely say that the thesis film program is an extremely useful complement to the art of filmmaking.

By Frances Bodomo | Oct 7 09:43 pm ET

As someone who is one class away from her B.A. in film studies, and as someone who has made her fair share of student films, I can safely say that the thesis film program is an extremely useful complement to the art of filmmaking.

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