Course Description
Design, production, and use of digital and analog video. Laboratory experiences with studio and portable cameras; editing and other equipment suitable for school use.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Graduate students taking this course will be responsible for locating, analyzing, and presenting research articles to the entire class. For each of the regularly required projects, they will be asked to include resources and references beyond those required for undergraduates. In addition, they will write a summary to accompany their final individual projects, drawing on specific theoretical perspectives to inform current uses and proposed activities related to their use of the educational video product.
Athena Title
Video Prod Teach Learn
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in EDIT 4500E or EDIT 6500E
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
1. Student will analyze communications and instructional needs; determine elements most appropriate to motion display and the associated advantages offered by video. 2. Student will be able to operate the portable and studio cameras, recorder-playback units, studio special effects generator, and the electronic editor. 3. Student will be able to describe and hookup proper connections between cameras, recorders, monitors, and other devices used in class demonstrations and laboratory practice. 4. Working in teams, the student will plan a 10 -15 minute instructional lesson for single camera assembly production. Group will write shooting script and narrative. 5. Working in teams, the student will plan and prepare needed graphics and titles for both single camera productions and revise visuals as needed for multiple-camera studio production. 6. Working in teams, the student will successfully tape the scripted lesson using camera assembly production techniques. 7. Working in teams, the student will successfully place an audio dub of the planned narration and music background on the camera assembly production tape. 8. Working in teams, the student will successfully transfer planned single camera production over to a multiple-camera studio production making use of the special effects generator capabilities. 9. Working in teams, the student will plan a second 10 -15 minute instructional lesson designed for single camera production but utilizing electronic editing techniques. 10. Working in teams, the student will successfully script, shoot, electronically edit, and audio dub their final production. 11. Student will critically analyze finished class productions and discuss their strengths and weaknesses.
Topical Outline
I. Introduction to Instructional Television A. History B. Purpopses C. Media literacy II. Basic TV equipment A. Studio cameras B. Lighting C. Staging III. Principles of TV Equipment A. Key definitions B. Implications IV. Production Planning and scripting A. Audience Analysis B. Reading Scripts C. Writing Scripts V. TV Graphics VI. Production Laboratory VII. TV Audio techniques VIII.Studio TV Production IX. Editing - Analog and Digital A. Planning Edited Production B. Production Laboratory XI. Evaluation