FACULTY – FILM & STORYTELLING
Steven Jacobson
Mr. Steven Jacobson, film studies teacher at New Roads School, is a USC School of Cinematic Arts graduate and member of the Directors Guild of America, and brings extensive film industry experience to his role as an educator at New Roads School in Santa Monica. An accomplished director, he helmed Center Stage: Turn It Up and served as Second Unit Director on Dreamgirls.
Passionate about cinematic storytelling, he currently teaches film production, theory, and screenwriting to middle and high school students, inspiring the next generation of filmmakers. Steven has also worked as a filmmaking and screenwriting coach for elementary school students, film festival programmer, screenplay dialect researcher, and editor of film-related books.
YEAR 3
My Courses
Film Production
Do you love movies and want to make your own? This course gives you the opportunity to bring your ideas to life in the form of exciting and dynamic short films. Students work collaboratively as part of a film crew while developing, shooting, and editing short narrative films. Each student takes on a variety of responsibilities in turn, gaining experience writing scripts. operating a camera, acting, and directing, with the course culminating in a screening of the finished movies. Skills refined along the way will include screenwriting, shot design/storyboarding, the essentials of post-production, and the art of successful collaboration and teamwork.
The Reach Broadcast
Students enrolled in this course produce the offical broadcast of Reach Academy, a news and variety show designed to capture the excitement of the Reach experience. Students will write, host, and star in segments ranging from news updates and human interest stories to comedy skits and commercial parodies. The finished broadcasts will be screened for the entire Reach community to enjoy. Students will learn interviewing skills and camera and editing techniques, and will use a green screen to create shot composites and effects.