CI 5552 (Graduate) CI 3532 (Undergraduate)

Advanced Video Production

Spring 2008

Instructor:                           Joe Murphy            

Office:                                213A EDH

Phone:                                262-2298

Office Hours:                     Mon.& Wed., 1:00-3:00; Tues.-11:00-2:00, Thurs.-11:00-12:30 or by appointment                                    

Email:                                [email protected]

Course Web Address: http://faculty.rcoe.appstate.edu/murphyjr/advancedvideo/advvideo.htm

CREDIT HOURS:   3                                Rm. 113A EDH                               Tues.-Thurs.   2:00-3:15 pm

Course Description:

This class will give students the opportunity to engage in the professional video production process as they create a video program for a client or for their portfolio. Students will learn skills in pre-production planning, production and post-production editing, and they will learn to operate and maintain professional quality equipment.   Additionally, as they act as crew on one another's projects and critique one another's work, students will learn to be a part of a video production team.

Course Objectives:

After completing this course, students will be able to:

   * plan and create videotapes which communicate specific, identified messages to particular audiences

   * utilize visual and audio technology in a technically competent and creative way

   * successful operate and maintain a variety of video cameras and recorders, microphones and mixers

   * use non-linear video editing software and hardware with skill and elegance

   * act as a member of a video production team

   * constructively critique other's creative work

Projects and Grading:

1. Fifteen second creative introduction to the science education series, Human Wonder Research. Each student will be responsible for creating an eye catching introduction that both summarizes what the viewer is about to see and makes them want to see it. Intro must be exactly 15 seconds long and must include music, sound effects, voice and visuals as well as a title graphic. (10% of final grade).

2. Production equipment test. Each student will be expected to properly set up on a tripod one of the six three chip cameras the department owns and connect microphones, headphones and a monitor to record talking. Lights and/or reflectors for an interview must also be set up. (10% of final grade).

3. Post-production test. Each student will be expected to create a folder on the computer, set the scratch disk in Final Cut Pro to capture footage to that folder and save the project in that folder. The student will then log and capture five different shots and edit a sequence of five shots onto a time line, set the audio levels manually, add a graphic ID in lower third of one visual, add an insert visual to one shot, put music and narration under one or more shots with audio levels adjusted accordingly. Add a special effect to one of the shots. Save the whole thing and then export the video so it can be burned to DVD and/or put on the web. (10% of final grade).

4. Treatment, script and shooting plan for final video. (10% of final grade).

5. Working on the planning, shooting and editing of at least two Human Wonder Research videos. (20% of final grade).

6. Radio documentary. Each person will interview at least ten people and create a five minute radio documentary on the assigned science topic. Each person in the class will have a different basic science question to ask their subjects for their documentary. Documentary must have narration and music/sound effects. (10% of final grade).

7. Final video. Each person will create a short (5-10 min.) video on a topic selected and approved ahead of time and then shot and edited according to stated deadlines. The bulk of the video should be shot in March and then edited in April. (20% of final grade).

8. Class attendance and participation. There are no readings and no written tests in this class. All of the learning happens as a result of class demos and class projects undertaken with the other people in this is small class. Since so much of the learning occurs by successfully working with other students during class time and outside of class on projects that are difficult if not impossible to make up, every student will be expected to actively attend class every day and arrive on time. (10% of final grade).