[ The Door Is Locked ]


When one first walks in, the room is dark and there are no windows. A large plant, specifically a six foot tall Palm Tree, is stuck on the right hand side just inside beside the door. It's leaves hang out, as if forbidding anyone tall to enter. You must Looking again, there is also another potted plant to your left, a Kentia Palm Mangrove. There is no way to enter without it brushing up against you. The darkness seemingly leaking out into the hallway as you enter.

On the board across from the door, even before you enter, it is written in white chalk, looming out of the pure darkness of the room:

"Welcome to the Black Box Studio.
There is enough BS here,
so any of your's will gladly be thrown out if need be.
-
Your Teacher."

Somehow the simple words crammed into those two sentences completely enforced themselves with a much deeper, darkening threat, despite the long, simple cursive the woman had used to write.

But after a while of your eyes adjusting, there are things you have overlooked upon entering. Shades and dark curtains cover where you believe to be windows. There is a large desk to your right, hidden at first behind the tree as you entered. There are filing cabinets behind the palm tree on your right, and a space where one could pass them behind the desk to an open wall-door. Inside is a small closed off room with a large glass window with shutters. Inside you can see the walls are all white, with a large green backdrop and several lights usually seen when photo-shooting with models. There is also another plant in that room. A Green Ficus Tree on the far wall in the corner next to one of those large modeling lights. Just outside the window there is a computer and several curious-looking Looking up from there


There is a piece of paper tacked up on a large old cork board next to the left side of the wall as you enter, partially hidden by the second potted plant you had already noticed, reading:


Course Overview

Film Study : Film Study is a course designed for the student who wishes to further develop his skills of perception and analysis of
the film medium. Students will view and discuss various types of film genres, film history and classics, and director styles. Students will
have the opportunity to work on original video projects on an independent basis. Students will be selected based on good attendance,
ability to work independently on projects, and on a demonstrated, serious interest in film and filmmaking.

Lessons Topics :
1. Becoming Acquainted
2. AFI Top 100 Films
3. To Kill A Mockingbird Unit: Film History, Film
Terminology

4. Film Types
5. A Study in Genre
6. Script Writing
7. Storyboards
8. Film Form
9. The Action Blockbuster
10. Citizen Kane
11. The Horror Genre
12. James Bond Unit
13. Dark Comedy
14. Science Fiction: Star Wars

Photography I : Photography I takes the student into a wide range of possibilities and discoveries in the word around them.
Capturing fantastic images and memories is the prime accomplishment. Working alone or in a group, students will be taking part in a wide range
of time-inducing work and study, learning exactly what captures most in a single picture while creating their own photo album.
Photography II : Photography II is a course designed for the student who has taken Photography (or is currently enrolled in photography)
and wants to pursue more advanced or creative photograph making projects. Students will work on an independent basis on their own original
album or framed collage while also serving as photograph-production support to other students and teachers.
Space is limited.

**Application and instructor signature required.


Other than that, there are also photo's, promotions for theater productions, movie posters, and many empty frames hanging on the walls.


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