Program Overview

Creative Media Industries Institute

The Creative Media Industries Institute is a part of the College of Arts & Sciences at Georgia State University.

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About

The Creative Media Industries Institute has an advisory board, core facilities, and industry professionals. It also offers reservation requests, CMII policies, and a faculty and staff directory.

Academics

Undergraduate

• BA Game Design
• BS Game Development
• BIS Media Entrepreneurship

Graduate

• M.F.A., Digital Filmmaking, Virtual Production & Visual Effects Concentration
• Georgia Film Academy

Research

The institute conducts research in the following areas:

• Computer Graphics, Game Development & Data Visualization
• Realistic Digital Humans with Emotion & Empathic Responses
• Documentary Film & Social Issues
• Artists In Residence

Esports

The institute has an esports program.

Giving

The institute accepts donations.

Georgia Film Academy

About

The Georgia Film Academy was created by legislation supported by former Gov. Nathan Deal to make film and TV industry training available to every Georgia citizen. Georgia State is a core university partner of GFA training programs.

Courses

• GFA 1000 – Introduction to On-Set Film Production (6 hours): This course provides an introduction to the skills used in on-set film production.
• GFA 2000 – Georgia Film Academy Internship (6 hours): This course provides students with a practical experience as a two–day internship course.

Certification

The Georgia Film Academy On-Set Film Production Certificate was designed by Hollywood "insiders" and can prepare students to enter the workforce after a two-semester sequence. Upon completing this coursework, students will receive a Certificate in Film Production and Georgia Film Academy Certification and be placed in the GFA workforce database.

Work in Georgia's Film & TV Industry

The GFA curriculum starts with a two-course sequence, both of which generate six credit hours accepted by Georgia State degree programs in CMII and the School of Film, Media, and Theatre. The first course provides professional training for participants seeking jobs as production assistants. The second invites the most accomplished graduates of the first course into on-set internships. Other courses, including classes in lighting, set design, and other craft specializations, provide students with a basic level of on-set film production skills, knowledge of the film industry's standard organizational structure, professional equipment, and on-set procedures.

Upon completion of 18 GFA credit hours, a student will have earned a GFA certificate, which assists in earning union certification to work in the film and television production industry.

AVID Technology Certification

In 2019, GFA partnered with AVID to offer a series of courses that result in AVID technology certification, and those courses are also available to full-time GSU students.