Media Arts ProductionBA

Turn your ideas into something tangible. Write, shoot, edit, produce, and collaborate across film, television, audio, and emerging media.

Media Arts Production is for students who want to understand how media gets made—and make it themselves.

You’ll study the creative, technical, and critical sides of production, building skills across cinematography, editing, sound, screenwriting, studio production, animation, documentary, narrative film, and emerging media.

Your first two years give you a foundation in media history, criticism, theory, and production. From there, you’ll move into intermediate and advanced courses that help you sharpen your craft, explore different forms, and define the kind of maker you want to become.

In your junior and senior years, you’ll take more advanced courses, deepen your creative practice, and develop a distinct artistic perspective. You can apply to spend a semester at Emerson Los Angeles (ELA), studying and networking with entertainment industry professionals. By the time you graduate, you’ll have a body of work, industry connections, and experience collaborating across the many roles that bring media projects to life.

Media production is collaborative by nature. At Emerson, you’ll find classmates, crews, campus organizations, and creative communities that help you make more work—and make the work better.

On campus, students produce and screen projects through organizations and festivals including Frames Per Second, Women in Motion, Emerson Film Festival, and It’s All True Documentary Film Festival. You can also build experience through roles with Media Technologies and Production, including the Equipment Distribution Center and Emerson Productions.

Off campus, Boston gives you even more places to learn, watch, listen, intern, and create—with film festivals, theatres, television and radio stations, museums, galleries, and a creative community just beyond Emerson’s doors.

Emerson College’s state-of-the-art Los Angeles campus on Sunset Boulevard serves as our home on the West Coast.

Undergraduate students spend a full fall or spring semester taking classes in the heart of Hollywood and participating in a semester-long internship at a site related to their field of study. They start building a professional network through engagements with industry leaders both on and off campus, and alumni often return back to LA for jobs right out of graduation.

Our Undergraduate Admission team is here to find the path that fits your goals, answer your questions, and prepare you for a life in the creative world. Learn more about applying to Emerson on our Application Process page.