TVRD-110 Introduction to Video Communication

This course will explore the ever increasing ways that video enhances personal communication in the modern world from students posting on social media to CEOs recording short communication pieces for company personnel. The emphasis will be on technical skills, artistic theories, and message formulation strategies necessary to create effective, memorable videos with familiar equipment including cell phones, palmcorders, and digital cameras. Techniques explored include acquisition, editing, exporting, sharing, posting, and other distribution methods.

Credits

3

Hours Weekly

3

Course Objectives

1. 1. Identify and apply critical theories and concepts related to timeless and contemporary issues of aesthetics, creativity, humanism, meaning, and/or invention in this evolving world where individuals communicate with video.
2. 2. Incorporate innovation, risk-taking, and creativity into analysis and problem solving in the creation of video communication strategies.
3. 3. Pose and address questions related to the confluence of creative and/or humanistic expression with social and cultural contexts, including video technologies created in response to evolving social need as well as perceived social need generated in response to new technologies.
4. 4. Assess, reflect on, and critically analyze the role of video-based communication in illuminating the human condition and/or search for meaning.
5. 5. Identify when and why to employ video in place of or to enhance alternative communication technologies.
6. 6. Make proficient use of a variety of common image-gathering technologies.
7. 7. Evaluate lighting conditions and apply appropriate existing, enhanced, and 3 point lighting techniques.
9. 9. Demonstrate basic editing in a digital environment.
10. 10. Apply various output and distribution technologies.

Course Objectives

1. 1. Identify and apply critical theories and concepts related to timeless and contemporary issues of aesthetics, creativity, humanism, meaning, and/or invention in this evolving world where individuals communicate with video.
2. 2. Incorporate innovation, risk-taking, and creativity into analysis and problem solving in the creation of video communication strategies.
3. 3. Pose and address questions related to the confluence of creative and/or humanistic expression with social and cultural contexts, including video technologies created in response to evolving social need as well as perceived social need generated in response to new technologies.
4. 4. Assess, reflect on, and critically analyze the role of video-based communication in illuminating the human condition and/or search for meaning.
5. 5. Identify when and why to employ video in place of or to enhance alternative communication technologies.
6. 6. Make proficient use of a variety of common image-gathering technologies.
7. 7. Evaluate lighting conditions and apply appropriate existing, enhanced, and 3 point lighting techniques.
9. 9. Demonstrate basic editing in a digital environment.
10. 10. Apply various output and distribution technologies.