Course emphasizes understanding the function of the score and how it relates to texture, color, and drama in music. Students explore their creativity using the tools available, work on projects of increasing complexity, and complete a score for their own film or video as a final project. Listening skills, music vocabulary, and business and legal aspects of the profession are also studied. Both linear and nonlinear systems are employed, teaching students proper applications. Outside projects as well as those created within the department give students hours of hands-on experience and exposure to a variety of techniques.
Students work in teams to complete class projects during additional weekly lab times.
I 3 cr Course serves as a general introduction to the optical printer and its capabilities, emphasizing the basic operation of a J-K printer. Exercises involve control of focal techniques, exposure, time manipulation, superimposition, fades and dissolves, high contrast processing, mattes and countermattes for wipes and insets, blow-up and reduction, color adjustment, combination, and isolation. Through practical hands-on application, students learn methodology of visual effects production. Students acquire general knowledge of a variety of skills needed to effectively produce and direct a visual effects sequence. Content addresses theory and application of color correction, image control, and manipulation techniques.