SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION

CMNS 226-3

INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL VIDEO TECHNIQUES

Prerequisites:

CMNS 110 and 130. CMNS 220 strongly recommended.


Overview:

This course provides an entry level learning experience introducing students to a variety of approaches to non-broadcast applications of video including educational, documentary, advocacy, training, and community development. The course also introduces students to the whole range of design and management tasks involved in non-broadcast video production including proposal writing, pitching story boarding, scripting, shooting, digitizing, editing, packaging and presenting their work.

The course will be divided into seminar and workshop components. In the seminars, students will be expected to critically analyze the different approaches to solving social communication problems with video. Discussion will be focused on critical analysis of selected examples from the emerging field of non-broadcast video production. In the workshop component, students will be expected to gain technical knowledge and skills required for digital video production including production planning, the use of camera, sound, voice recording equipment, lighting and framing, digitizing raw footage, editing, graphics and transitions, and outputting your work.

To provide focus for development of these design and technical perspectives all students will undertake four exercises which progressively demonstrate their understanding, skill and creative abilities and will show and talk about their productions.

Exercises: (done in groups of two or three)
1) Story board
2) Video Profile
3) Double bias news story
4) Education Video

Evaluation:

4 exercises, each worth 20% of the grade 80%
Seminar Participation and Report 20%

The School expects that the grades awarded in this course will bear some reasonable relation to established university-wide practices with respect to both levels and distribution of grades. In addition, the School will follow Policy T10.02 with respect to “Intellectual Honest,” and Academic Discipline” (see the current Calendar, General Regulations Section).