The primary goal of this course is to familiarize students with dramatic film production from interpreting the screenplay through shooting, editing, and post-production. The relationship of these activities to aesthetic development being the fundament of the course, and the basis of its connection to Film Studies. Film-Video 301 or equivalent experience with video production and permission of instructor. Laboratory fee required. It aims to help students realize their own voices in independent videomaking within the historical context of Video Art.
Evaluation is based on projects, reading and writing assignment, and class participation.
Computer Animation I. Film-Video 200. Laboratory fee required. This animation course will investigate and exercise the basic concepts of Macromedia Director. Fundamentals of the perception of motion over time, rotoscoping, storyboarding, and final output options of finished animations. Students should have a basic working knowledge of Macintosh illustration and paint programs.