It also includes the history, styles, use and creative options of graphic design. This course is an introduction to animation, looking at both its history and application, spanning from the pioneering animation of the 1980s to present day virtual reality computer animation techniques. It gives students an opportunity to utilize newly acquired skills. The course emphasizes the importance of writing in video production and its contribution at many different levels, and develops the critical reading of film and video as organized in structured essays and reviews. This course continues to develop the skills of audio post-production for video first explored in VID 262.
Students use a computer to record, manipulate and desynchronize sound to picture.
Included are the skills of pitch shifting, Foley, time-stretching and digital mix automation. This course, looks at the role of the sound recordist in film and video production and examines how to record sound to picture. Microphone selection, boom swinging, stereo recording, live mixing and use of wireless microphones are all essential elements of the course. Included are the elements of distribution contracts, negotiating points and an exploration of the hierarchy of the integral, yet separate promotion and distribution businesses. This course is intended to raise the general level of knowledge and understanding of those without formal legal training with the law as it relates to video production.