Earn your MFA in Production Design and take your filmmaking career to the next level. AFI Production Designers spend two years immersed in honing their craft, from designing and building innovative sets to learning cutting-edge technological tools that bring their vision to life. As part of the production design curriculum, AFI Production Designers collaborate on at least three narrative short films in their first year of courses and in their second year, they focus on designing a thesis film production and an original portfolio of design work which is displayed at the annual AFI Conservatory Production Design industry spotlight.
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THE AFI CINEMATOGRAPHY PROGRAM
“One of the great things about AFI was having teachers who were working in the industry. A connection with one of my teachers at AFI led to my first job as an art department assistant on MAD MEN. That was a well-oiled, exceptional art department. I learned a great deal – how the roles are supposed to interact and work with one another – and got into the union that way.”
-Erin Magill (AFI Class of 2012), Production Designer