Project Bluelight is a professional motion picture production company within the School of Cinematic Arts where students get hands-on experience in motion picture production. Project Bluelight was founded in 2004 as a professional, educational, and community outreach program with a dual goal of creating high-quality independent films and providing an intensive, practical, film production experience for DePaul students.
Virtual Production
In a virtual production environment at DePaul Cinespace Studios, SCA students and faculty are embracing cutting-edge technology to combine on-set performances and virtual computer graphics live on camera in real-time. Virtual production techniques are revolutionizing film production methods and are rapidly being adopted across the professional industry.
Brian Andrews taught a Project Bluelight course with film production, 3D animation, and game students to create experimental projects for the stage, and the technology was used to create special effects for another Project Bluelight, Shayna Connelly’s The Tensile Strength of Air.
Read more about how DePaul students and faculty are using this emerging technology.
The pilot is now streaming on The Roku Channel.
Inferno
(2020)
Director: Wendy Roderweiss
The pilot for the dark comedy Inferno was directed by Wendy Roderweiss and crewed by School of Cinematic Arts students as part of a Project Bluelight in 2019.
In the show, a mistake leaves an altruistic law school grad desperate for a job and he interviews at a firm of morally depraved divorce lawyers. Ultimately, he must decide if he’s willing to sacrifice every principle he lives by in order to save his future.
Read an interview with Roderweiss where she gives a behind-the-scenes look at the Project Bluelight course that empowered 26 DePaul students to shape the project and gain professional experience to launch their careers.