CMNS 226-3
David Murphy and Steve
Kline Spring 2005
Email: davidcot@sfu.ca
Prerequisites: CMNS 110 and 130. Recommended: CMNS 220.
Overview:
This course introduces students to a variety of digital media communication technologies and techniques, including image and sound capturing and manipulation, Internet-based publishing and research, digitizing, editing and archiving. Design and management tasks involved in communicating using digital media are also introduced, including strategic and research planning, data integrity management, file structuring, packaging and work presentation.
This course provides a practical,
studio based learning experience introducing students to a variety of
approaches to media asset production and management. The course also introduces students to a
whole range of design and management tasks involved in media production
including network protocols, presentation techniques, audio and video capture
and editing, media compression and distribution methods.
The course will be divided into seminar and workshop
components. In the seminars, students
will be expected to analyze the different approaches to mediated social
communication appropriate to different kinds of communication problems and
situations. Discussion will be focused
on critical analysis of selected examples from the emerging field of video
production and design. In the workshop
component, students will be expected to gain technical knowledge and skills
required for digital media production including production planning, the use of
image and sound recording equipment, lighting, framing, digitizing, editing,
graphics, transitions, and presenting final productions.
To provide focus for development of these design and
technical perspectives all students will undertake five exercises, which
progressively demonstrate their understanding, skill and creative abilities and
will show and talk about their productions to the class.
Exercises:
- Web Image 10%
- Presentation Sequence 10%
- Narrative Sequence with
Sound 10%
- Mid Term Exam 10%
- Informative Visualization 20%
- Profile 20%
- Production Journals 10%
- Participation 10%
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).