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Curriculum

Program Overview
The Film & Television Conservatory is open to students in grades 9 - 12. We offer courses in film and television production, including courses in screenwriting, audio design, film production management, editing, film history, critical studies, directing, documentary filmmaking, television broadcasting, experimental film and cinematography. Students are placed in courses according to their year of entry into the program, which is designed to lead students toward the production of a Senior Project film (similar to a college thesis film) that represents the student’s best work and the culmination of their training.

Inter-department collaboration is highly valued and each semester our students work collaboratively with other conservatories to produce their films. Our students are also encouraged to take elective courses in other arts areas of interest to them (including photography, advanced screenwriting, graphic design, and animation to name a few) as these opportunities become available to them.

Special Events and Programs
For the past year two years, Film & Television students have screened their work at our bi-annual student film festival, hosted by Chapman University at the Marion Knott Studios’ Folino Theatre. This festival draws hundreds of conservatory friends and family each semester and is open to the public.

Film & Television also produces, in conjunction with Student Leadership, OCHSA’s daily news series, Art Attack, which broadcasts announcements to the entire school over closed-circuit television.

Guest artists and master classes with industry professionals, as well as industry field trips, also enhance our students’ learning experience. In addition, opportunities for our students to film in the community are made available through the conservatory director as they arise and through school community outreach programs.

Aaron Orullian has continued to work on independent features and short films while mentoring his students on film production and screenwriting. He has judged the American Screenwriters Association annual script contest and assisted the Newport Beach and Sundance Film Festivals. Aaron Orullian was a finalist for the Sundance Writers Workshop in 2004 and has won other awards for screenwriting and short fiction. In 2007, he was one of twenty art teachers nationwide to win the prestigious Surdna Arts Teachers Fellowship which enabled him to make a short film with his students as well as attend the Toronto Film Festival. Aaron Orullian became Director of Film and Television in the fall of 2007.

Michael Gene Brown
Michael Gene Brown holds an MFA in Film and Television from Chapman University. Brown produced and directed his first feature film, Slammed, which is traveling the festival circuit. He has directed numerous short films, music videos and commercials. Additionally, he has designed the production of several independent feature films currently being broadcast on cable television. Brown has been a proud member of the Film and Television Conservatory faculty since 2003, teaching Experimental Film, Documentary, Film Production I and Senior Project.

Ted Leib
Ted Leib is an actor, writer and director. He earned his M.A. in television, film and new media from San Diego State University (SDSU) in 1999. Upon earning his degree, he taught 16mm filmmaking at SDSU for a year and a half before relocating to Orange County. In addition to teaching at OCHSA since 2003, Ted does freelance video and audio production as well as e-Learning development. In addition to directing, Ted also has performed on stages throughout Orange County.

John Hall
John Hall earned a bachelor of fine arts in film production with an emphasis in cinematography from Chapman University. During his studies at Chapman, Hall founded the Chapman Cinematographer's Association and was appointed to the Kodak Student Advisory Council by the Chapman School of Film and Television faculty.

Prior to completing his degree, Hall accumulated eight years of professional experience in the film industry, primarily as a camera assistant and cinematographer. Hall worked on more than 50 projects as a camera assistant including feature films, commercials and music videos. He worked under critically-acclaimed cinematographers including Andrzej Sekula (Pulp Fiction, American Psycho), Dave Klein (Chasing Amy, Mall Rats), Chris Duddy (Titanic, Sum of all Fears) and Stefan Von Bjorn (Paycheck, Lethal Weapon 4). Additionally, Hall served as a member of the International Cinematographers Guild, Local 600. He has also served as the photographer for 25 shorts films and 13 independent feature films.

Other faculty members for Spring 2008 include: Steven Townsend, Yvette Marthell, Adam Roth