Your lights, your camera, your action
Make your own films in the film studio stocked with cameras, lighting equipment, sound equipment, and post-production editing labs to bring your vision to life.
The Chandler Senior Experience
Drawing on expertise not only in film studies, but also the departments of anthropology, education, gender studies, history, languages, music, and studio art, your Senior Experiences may be research-based or involve the production of film, video or animation.
Recent Senior Experiences include:
- Toothsome Pleasures: Vampires, Sexual Deviance, Gender Play (research paper and presentation)
- I See My Ancestors in My Face (video installation)
- Never Stop Remembering Magic (film experience)
Film Studies Outcomes
Opportunities to work in the film industry or bring your knowledge of visual culture to other fields abound no matter your path through the film studies program.
Current Film Student?
Find resources for navigating the Hurvis Center, film equipment reservations, and more!
On Any Given Day...
...discover an array of opportunities that await you at Lawrence University.
Lawrence alumna, Molly Preston '10, returns to Appleton to film a coming-of-age comedy that she wrote and is directing.
Senior Experience in Virtual Reality
Christopher Gore-Gammon '17 showcases new opportunities for students to explore VR production at Lawrence.
Explore gender and intersectional identities in video games from an advanced and in-depth level. Analyze literature, multiple video games, and meta-cultural content while exploring the topics of gender and other forms of identity. Produce your own media content and share your findings with the gaming community.