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CLASSES & PROGRAMS
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Cinematography/Videography
In a hands-on approach, Cinematography majors are taught to visualize a movie while working with the Director and Art Department provoke an emotional response of the audience – the essence of why people go to see films.
At CFS you will get your hands on a wide variety of cameras including motion picture film and the Red 4K camera system. By working with other disciplines, a Cinematography major explores a wide range of filmmaking gaining skills in dramatic narrative, documentary filmmaking and the latest in green-screen effects photography.
Cinematography/Videography Faculty Scott VanOrdstrand
Scott has over 15 years in news/reality television having spent 8 years with local newscasts, 2 additional years shooting for network shows including ABC News, 20/20, NBC News, Dateline, RTL (German network) Magazin das Explosiv, various corporate shoots and national cable network shows. He has worked in several markets including Alaska, Seattle, Virginia and Colorado in a variety of Environments including subzero weather while shooting the Iditarod Sled Dog race in Alaska.
Recently he spent four years shooting for Spirit of Colorado for Rocky Mountain PBS, a Heartland Regional Emmy Award winning show, as well as working on Emmy award winning specials for RMPBS including Trains of the American West, Ski: A Century of Colorado Skiing and most recently Jewel of the Rockies a documentary on the history of the Air Force Academy. Scott is the recipient of seven Heartland Regional Emmys. He also has various National Press Photographers Association awards including several 1st Place quarterly clip contests and local press photographer awards.
Currently, Scott is the Technology Manager for the Colorado Film School. Additionally, Scott has been called upon to teach several courses on the technical aspects of film, high-definition video, and lighting. Additionally, he provides support for the digital television broadcast infrastructure at CFS.
In his current position, Scott has been DP and Associate Producer on several client projects for the school including promotion videos for the Community College of Aurora Foundation, Martin Luther King Early College and the Colorado Film School's very own promo video. During his career, Scott has been called upon to be a DP, camera operator, producer, director, and technical expert in use of various video and film equipment. He has even been a casting director!
Scott is a Denver native having earned a degree in Television Production Management from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Tony Pfau
He carries with him the philosophy that “there isn’t anything anyone can think up that we can’t get to the screen, we’re in a figure it out business.”
During the last 3 decades, he has logged well over 1500 professional shooting days, has managed millions of dollars in production. He has produced tricky, if not seemingly impossible projects, that went off without a hitch. Working with Ginsburg Productions in the 80’s, he developed some of the first live action VR hybrids, before it was easy.
He has shot through out the USA and Canada doing features, national commercials, numerous corporate communications, documentaries, music videos, festival shorts and more. The low budget indie mode is no stranger either. He has tremendous experience working with aerial camera systems and production.
He has worked on the following studio pictures shot in Colorado in various departments; “Switchback”, “Catch and Release”, “Imagine That”, “Asteroid”, “Three Ninjas at Magic Mountain”. He has other independent film credits for, “Fast Food Nation’ and “Moosie”, “Fairy Fort”, “Death of a Romance”, NBC’s Olympics promo “Frozen Joe”.
Among his awards, he has a CINE Golden Eagle, BPAA Gold Key, Herme's Gold (DIR/DP), a Telly, numerous Alfie awards, a Flame award, National Cable Broadcasters Award (DIR/DP). He was listed in the Who's Who in Entertainment in 1987.
He has lived and worked in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and Austin Texas, and now resides back in Colorado happily married and has a real estate business as well.
His production company AVPfilms LLC has been in business since 1986. (formerly AVP Production) Demos of his work can be seen at www.avpfilms.net.
He is currently developing independent ventures and sharing his experience teaching the film production classes at Colorado Film School.
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Tony Pfau is a respected member of Colorado’s film community and an award winning film producer -director – DP. Just like many, he started out being named, “don’t touch that!”, but, having been mentored by some of the best in the business, he evolved and developed a strong production background and found himself doing big projects early in his career.
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