The Making Of

The Storytelling and Film Senior Experience is work-based learning in action. Students step into real production roles, collaborate within professional workflows, and work alongside faculty and industry mentors to create a finished film project.
 

The Making Of mini documentary captures this process as it unfolds, showing how students apply classroom learning, develop career ready skills, and navigate the realities of collaborative creative work.

Creative work rarely happens in isolation. Filmmaking is a collaborative process that requires communication, adaptability, leadership, and problem solving.
 

By focusing on the behind the scenes experience, this mini documentary makes student learning visible. It shows how students work in teams under real deadlines, communicate across roles, respond to unexpected challenges, and reflect on their growth throughout the process.

Through this process, students develop both creative expertise and career ready skills, including:
 

• Managing projects and meeting production deadlines

• Communicating effectively across creative and technical teams

• Solving problems under real world constraints

• Collaborating with shared responsibility and accountability

• Adapting to feedback and evolving project needs

• Developing confidence in professional settings

Student reflections are at the heart of the documentary. Short interviews capture their experiences in their own words, including how they navigate collaboration, leadership, and decision making throughout the production process.​

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Faculty and industry mentors reflect on how the course supports high impact learning by combining disciplinary rigor with professional practice. Their insights highlight student growth in resilience, communication, and creative problem solving, as well as the value of mentorship and guided reflection.