Video Production (VDP301)
Vietnamese title: Sản xuất Video
Credits: 3

Description:
This practicum course is designed to give students the opportunity to apply theoretical knowledge learned before to actual multimedia production situations. This course incorporates in its approach a combination of applied media aesthetics theory and hands-on production experience in video production. Students will gain a foundation for understanding media production theory, facilitating video production processes as well as creating and evaluating media products relating to a particular issue set by the course lecturer. A component of the course will permit the introduction of current topics such as media issues, professional video production techniques, changing media technology, and job market information. In addition, the course will also introduce some applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the video production process, allowing students to explore and utilize these advanced technologies to enhance the efficiency and quality of their media products.
As a student of the class, you will sample a variety of production work through active team participation. Based on the quality of the video, your product might be published on FPT’s media platforms.

Learning outcomes:
Explain fundamental video production principles and techniques by describing the stages of production (pre-production, production, and post-production) and the functions of key roles within a production crew.
Analyze the impact of scriptwriting, visual elements, and audio elements on storytelling by identifying key techniques in scripting, camera work, lighting, sound, and editing that enhance narrative flow and audience engagement.
Apply technical skills in operating video production equipment, including cameras, lighting systems, and audio devices, to capture high-quality footage.
Edit video and audio content proficiently using industry-standard software, focusing on continuity, pacing, transitions, and the integration of visual and sound effects to strengthen storytelling.
Use AI tools to enhance production efficiency and optimize workflow in tasks such as content planning, editing support, asset generation, and post-production enhancement.
Demonstrate effective teamwork and communication skills by collaborating within a production team, coordinating tasks, sharing responsibilities, and managing conflicts professionally.
Exhibit professional responsibility and ethical standards in video production by respecting copyright, privacy, and cultural sensitivity throughout all stages of content creation and distribution.

Student tasks:
- Attend at least 80% of contact hours to be eligible for the final examination
- Actively participate in class activities
- Fulfill tasks given by the instructor after class
- Use personal laptops in class only for learning purposes
- Read the textbook in advance
- Access the course website (www.cms.fpt.edu.vn) for up-to-date course materials, online support from the instructor and classmates, and practice activities or assessments.

Tools:
Education Tools:
- One green screen filming Studio
- Studio lamps
- 5 Desktop Computers
- 2 Wireless Microphone
- 2 Cameras
- Tripods, Gimbal

Materials:
description: Video Production Handbook
author: Gerald Millerson and Jim Owens
publisher: Focal Press
published_date: 2008
edition: Fourth Edition
isbn: ASIN:B00DT6B8PI
note: Link: https://library.books24x7.com/toc.aspx?bookid=32249
description: Filmmaking in Action
author: Adam Leipzig, Barry Weiss, Michael Goldman
publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
published_date: 2015
edition: First Edition
isbn: 978-0312616991
description: In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing
author: Walter Murch
publisher: Silman-James Press
published_date: 2001
edition: Second Edition
isbn: 978-1879505629

Assessments:
category: Assignment 1
type: on-going
weight: 10.0
duration: in class and homework
question_type: CLO1, CLO2, CLO3
no_question: Short written response
knowledge_and_skill: 1
grading_guide: Test the knowledge that students obtained in the delivered chapters (Chapter 1 – Chapter 8).
note: - Students are able to describe the complete video production process through specific steps.
- Students are able to identify the positions in a video production crew and the roles and responsibilities of each position.
category: Assignment 2
type: on-going
weight: 15.0
duration: in class and homework
question_type: CLO1, CLO2, CLO3, CLO5
no_question: Short written response
knowledge_and_skill: 1
grading_guide: Test the students' skills in scriptwriting and developing content for video products.
note: - Students are able to write video scripts that progress from a broad overview to specific details.
- Students can use AI tools to generate script ideas and then develop them into complete video storylines during class.
- Students must submit an AI usage report that includes information about any AI-generated footage along with the specific prompts used.
category: Assignment 3
type: on-going
weight: 25.0
duration: in class and homework
question_type: CLO1, CLO2, CLO3, CLO5, CLO6
knowledge_and_skill: 1
grading_guide: Evaluate the students' skills in project planning and analyzing the factors required for preparing the project's filming.
note: - Student groups develop detailed plans for film production projects.
- Students can use AI tools to assist in laying out and suggesting content for production documents, then modify these elements to suit the project.
- Students must submit an AI usage report that includes information about any AI-generated footage along with the specific prompts used.
category: Group Final Presentation
type: on-going
weight: 40.0
duration: in class and homework
question_type: CLO1-CLO7
no_question: Group Project
knowledge_and_skill: 1
grading_guide: Evaluate the entire video production process of the student group throughout the semester and the results achieved.
note: - Student groups present a comprehensive report on the video production process undertaken during the semester.
- Students are recommended to use AI tools to help enhance project performance.
- Students must submit an AI usage report that includes information about any AI-generated footage along with the specific prompts used.
category: Participation
type: on-going
weight: 10.0
duration: in class
question_type: CLO6, CLO7
grading_guide: Assess student participation over the duration of the program, focusing on attendance and contributions during lectures.

Schedule:
session: Chapter 1: Overview of Video Production

1.1 What is video production?
1.2 Defining the new media
1.3 Understanding the field of video production
1.4 Remember the purpose
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materials: VDP301_Phần 2
session: Chapter 1: Overview of Video Production

1.5 Is there a right way?
1.6 The production approach
1.7 Equipment
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session: Chapter 1: Overview of Video Production

1.8 It's dessigned for you
1.9 Learning bassics
1.10 What equipment is needed?
1.11 Equipment performance
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session: Chapter 3: Organizing the Production

3.1 Art conceals craft
3.2 Shot selection
3.3 The problem of familiarity
3.4 The problem of quality
3.5 The problem of "bigger and better
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session: Chapter 3: Organizing the Production
THE PRODUCTION PROCESS

3.7 Start with an idea (concept)
3.8 Goals and objectives
3.9 Target audience
3.10 Research
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session: 3.11 Convering the subject
3.12 Production methods
3.13 The empirical approach
3.14 The planned approach
3.15 Storyboards
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session: Chapter 3: Organizing the Production

3.16 Why plan?
3.17 The three stages of production
3.18 Coverage
3.19 Building an outline
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session: Chapter 3: Organizing the Production

3.20 Broad treatment
3.21 Production research
3.22 Remote survey
3.23 Freedom to plan
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session: Chapter 3: Organizing the Production

3.24 Single camera shooting
3.25 Multicamera shooting
3.26 Copyright
3.27 Contracts
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session: Chapter 2: Production Crew

2.1 Production Crew Size
VIDEO PRODUCTION CREW JOB DESCRIPTIONS...

2.2 Producer
2.3 Assistant Producer or Associate Producer
2.4 Director
2.5 Assistant Director or Associate Director
2.6 Production Assistant
2.7 Floor Manager or Stage Manager
2.8 Technical Director or Vision Mixer
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session: Chapter 2: Production Crew

2.9 Makeup Artist
2.10 Graphic Designer/Operator
2.11 Lighting Director/Vision Supervisor
2.12 Videographer/Camera Operator/Photographer
2.13 Camera Assistant
2.14 Audio Mixer/Sound Mixer/Sound Supervisor
2.15 Boom Operator or Audio Assistant
2.16 Engineer
2.17 Writer
2.18 Editor
2.19 Set Designer
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session: Chapter 2: Production Crew

2.20 Freelance Crew
2.21 Below-the-Line/Above-the-Line
2.22 The structure of a video production crew
2.23 What do you wear?
2.24 What do you bring with you?
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session: Assignment 1
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session: Chapter 05: Writing for Video

5.1 The script's purpose
5.2 The outline script
5.3 Basic script formats
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session: Chapter 05: Writing for video

5.4 The full script
5.5 The drama script
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session: SUGGESTIONS ON SCRIPTWRITING

5.6 Visual storytelling
5.7 Style
5.8 Script processes
5.9 Scriptwriting basics
5.10 Use AI tools to suggest screenplay ideas.
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session: 5.10 Script questions
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session: Writing Script for Student Group
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session: Assignment 2
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session: Chapter 4: Production Techniques

4.1 Single- and multicamera production
4.2 Multicamera ISO
4.3 Multicamera production without a switcher
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session: Chapter 4: Production Techniques

4.4 The illusion of reality
4.5 The camera's role
4.6 The camera as an obsever
4.7 The persuasive camera
4.8 How do you visualize something that does not exist?
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session: Chapter 06: The Directing

6.1 The director
6.2 Selective techniques
6.3 Communication
6.4 Guiding the viewer through the scene
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session: Chapter 06: The Directing

6.5 Organizing the angles
6.6 Visual variety
6.7 Focusing audience attention
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session: Chapter 06: The Directing

6.8 Shooting controlled action
6.9 Segmented shooting with a single camera
6.10 Multicamera techniques
6.11 Directing talent
6.12 Use AI tools to suggest making storyboard
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session: Assignment 3 - Presentation
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session: Assignment 3 - Presentation
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session: Chapter 07: The Camera

7.1 A variety of cameras
7.2 Cameracraft
CAMERA FEATURES
7.3 Main camera features
7.4 Lenses
7.5 Focal length and lens angle
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session: Chapter 07: The Camera

7.6 The prime lens or fexed lens
7.7 The zooom lens
7.8 The aperture of the lens
7.9 Lens accessories
7.10 The image sensor
7.11 Gain: Sensor sensitivity
7.12 The viewfinder
7.13 Audio
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session: Chapter 07: The Camera
CONTROLLING THE CAMERA

7.14 Handling the camera
7.15 Supporting the camera
7.16 Handheld cameras
7.17 The pan head
7.18 Using a tripod
7.19 The monopod
7.20 Jib arms
7.21 Camera slider
7.22 Specialty camera mounts
7.23 Camera care
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session: Chapter 08: Using the Camera

8.1 Just point and shoot
8.2 Shooting for the screen
8.3 What Is the best shot?
8.4 Why move the camera?
8.5 Focusing
8.6 Depth of field
8.7 Using focus to communicate
8.8 Focus issues?
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session: Chapter 08: Using the Camera
EXPOSURE

8.9 What is "Exposure"
8.10 Underexposure and overexposure
8.11 Automatic exposure
8.12 Exposure: Graduated filters
8.13 Crossing the line
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session: Chapter 08: Using the Camera
THE MOVING CAMERA

8.14 Following moving subjects
8.15 Framing movement
CAMERA MOVES
8.16 Moving camera mounts
8.17 Walking
8.18 Shooting from vehicles
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session: Chapter 08: Using the Camera
THE BASICS OF SHOOTING

8.19 Selecting the right shots
8.20 Persuasive shots
COMPOSING PICTURES
8.21 Composition rules and guidelines
8.22 Shots that are different
8.23 Watch the background
8.24 The rule of thirds
8.25 Shooting from different angles
8.26 Showing scale
8.27 Framing the subject
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session: Chapter 08: Using the Camera
COMPOSING PICTURES

8.28 Leading lines
8.29 Headroom
8.30 Changing the perspective
8.31 Distortions
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session: Chapter 08: Using the Camera
LENS FILTERS
8.32 What does a filter do?
ANTICIPATING EDITING
8.33 Continuity
8.34 Shooting to improve editing
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session: Chapter 09: Shooting People and Objects
SHOOTING PEOPLE

9.1 The single person
9.2 Arranging people shots
9.3 Effective shots
9.4 Selecting the right shot
9.5 Single-camera interviews
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session: Chapter 09: Shooting People and Objects

9.6 Editing continuous interviews
9.7 Shooting groups
9.8 Car interviews
9.9 Walking interviews
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session: Chapter 09: Shooting People and Objects
SHOOTING INSTRUCTIONAL PRODUCTIONS

9.10 Typical instructional productions
9.11 Approaches to instruction
9.12 Advance planning
9.13 Creating the instructional program
9.14 Shooting objects
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session: Chapter 10: Working with the Talent

10.1 Talent
10.2 Talent and production styles
10.3 The interview: Go beyond the obvious
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session: Chapter 10: Working with the Talent

10.4 Selecting talent
10.5 Inexperienced talent
THE ACTOR’S CRAFT
10.6 The host
10.7 The off-camera host
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session: Chapter 10: Working with the Talent

10.8 Presenting the information
10.9 Importance of people in the scene
10.10 Safety
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session: Chapter 12: Lighting for Video

12.1 Lighting the scene
12.2 Lighting options
12.3 Existing light
12.4 The camera does not compensate
12.5 The key factors
12.6 If there is not enough light
12.7 If there is too much light
12.8 The LED light
12.9 The spotlight (hard light)
12.10 The floodlight (soft light)
12.11 Lighting contrast
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session: Chapter 12: Lighting for Video

12.12 Three-point lighting
12.13 Colour temperature compensation
12.14 Shooting in daylight
12.15 Using reflectors
12.16 Bounce light
LIGHTWEIGHT LIGHT SUPPORTS
12.17 Grip clamps
12.18 Light stands
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session: Chapter 12: Lighting for Video
LIGHTING INSTRUMENTS

12.19 Camera light
12.20 Soft light panel
12.21 Cyc lights
12.22 Fresnel spotlights
12.23 Small portable spotlights
12.24 Flexible mat lighting
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session: Chapter 13: The Background

13.1 The importance of the background
13.2 Real and unreal backgrounds
13.3 Set components
13.4 The neutral background
13.5 Economical sets
13.6 Semipermanent sets
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session: Chapter 13: The Background

13.7 Chroma-key sets
13.8 Virtual sets
13.9 Outside/back-lot sets
13.10 The location
13.11 Watch the background
13.12 Foreground pieces
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session: Chapter 13: The Background

13.13 Versions of “Reality”
13.14 What can we do about the background?
13.15 Rearranging the background
13.16 Partial settings
13.17 Typical examples of partial settings
13.18 Facing reality
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session: Chapter 15: Recording for Video
THE VIDEO IMAGE

15.1 High-definition television (HDTV or HD)
15.2 4K Television
15.3 8K Television
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session: Chapter 15: Recording for Video
VIDEO RECORDING MEDIA

15.4 Videotape
15.5 Flash memory
15.6 Hard disk drive (HDD) (Internal hard
drive)
15.7 External camera hard drives
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session: Chapter 15: Recording for Video

15.8 Hard drive server recorders
15.9 XDCAM Disk
15.10 Recording media care
15.11 Video recording suggestion
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session: Production
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session: Production
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session: Production
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session: Chapter 16: Editing

16.1 Editing goals
16.2 Shooting order versus running order
16.3 Editing video and audio
16.4 Logging
16.5 An overview of the nonlinear process
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session: Chapter 16 Editing

16.6 Editing equipment
16.7 Organization
EDITING THE PROJECT
16.8 Editing begins
16.9 Selecting the shots
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session: Chapter 16 Editing

16.10 The Order of shots
16.11 Where should the edits be made?
16.12 Transitions
16.13 Continuity
16.14 Good editing techniques
16.15 Anticipating editing
16.16 Use AI tools to optimize footages
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session: Group Final Presentation
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session: Group Final Presentation
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