Beginning with the development of script proposals from clients' and producers' ideas, the student advances to storyboards, schedules, legal requirements and budgets. Included are the practical skills of hiring a crew, purchasing insurance, obtaining releases and permissions, and working with rental houses. This course explores aspects of audio in video post-production, as well as introducing students to some of the applications of digital audio technology. Included are eight-track recording and mixing, signal processing, and synchronizing sound with video. Emphasis is placed on creating and recording sound effects, laying down tracks and mixing sound to picture.
Students learn to shoot out of sequence, organize their shoots, put together film and freelance.
This course examines the many technologies, which make up the television and video industries. Beginning with the basics of television and video cameras, discussions and lectures progress into the new technologies of HDTV, satellites and interactive computing. Emphasis is placed on the ways in which each area is linked with others and the social implications of each. This course examines the role of the producer and the director of a production, how each differs from the other, and where in the hierarchy of the production team each is placed. The course also examines the marketability of the script or screenplay, protecting ideas and obtaining an agent.