1. To produce and direct quality
dramatic video productions with a realistic understanding of resources,
capabilities and goals.
2. To gain experience in the planning and
execution of professional video production.
3. To function in a crew position contributing
as a team member to the completion of projects.
4. To understand the pre-production, production
and post-production processes in video production.
5. To engage in critical self-evaluation
as it applies to one's work on one's own project as well as one's work
on other projects.
1. Each student will complete assigned
camera and editing exercises.
2. Each student will produce a video shot
and edited in camera and a production report.
3. Each student will participate in various
crew positions on other students' projects.
4. Each student will hand in a finished
final video project and completed production report.
5. Each student will complete the four production/editing
assignments as part of a two person team (teams will be set up at the start
of the quarter).
6. Each student will take the final exam.
7. Each student team will manage their own
screening and critique sessions in front of the class for each completed
project.
NOTE: Students are expected to demonstrate a positive
and healthy attitude at all times. Students must demonstrate a willingness
to accept criticism as part of the ongoing creative production process.
1. Productions: Students, in two person
teams, must plan and shoot two projects during time scheduled, utilizing
as crew the members of the class. The first is a project of no more than
180 seconds in length to be edited in camera. The second is to be no longer
than 180 seconds and is to be edited from no more than twenty minutes of
raw material (these may be shot on any format and edited on campus in either
S-VHS or VHS). In addition, each team will be responsible for completing
an assigned camera and editing exercises.
2. Scheduling: Students will be scheduled
for editing and shooting on all projects. While equipment (S-VHS camcorders,
tripods and lights) may be checked out during the assigned production weeks
the professor strongly advises you to have outside access to a camera.
NOTE:
you will be held financially responsible for any missing or damaged equipment.
Each team is entitled to no more than 8 hours of editing time per project.
3. Crewing: All students are required to
seek out crew positions on other 401 student projects and all student projects
are required to have at least one non-team crew member. Crew credit is
limited to three extra people in the field and one extra in the editing
room. Students will receive points for each position served on another
student's project. These points may not total more than 10 points toward
the student's final score and will be based on a curve of overall participation
in the class.
4. Production Reports: All students are
required to complete a Production Report (see attached question form) and
hand it in one week following each of their finished projects. These
reports must be typed (double-spaced) and presented in a report cover.
WARNING: Treat these assignments seriously -- they count for a significant
percentage of your grade and should be considered as important as term
papers (reports of less than five pages will receive reduced credit).
5. Tape: All students are expected to purchase
video tape for their projects. All projects must be handed in, on the final
day, at the end of the quarter, on clearly labeled T-120 cassettes. Both
cassette and cassette case must have a clearly and cleanly typewritten
label with the following information indicating:
1) Project title, Date of completion;
2) Project length, Number of audio tracks (1 or 2); and
3) Name(s) of director/producer.
On this tape the students will provide finished copies of all their
projects with the standard pre-roll of bars/tone, slate (CG) and beep count
(10-3 sec). At the conclusion each tape the student will record "copyright
1999 CSULA" and a complete list of credits. These tapes (due at the final
class meeting) will be kept on file for 1 year after the completion of
the course after which time the student may reclaim it.
6. Team Work: Students are expected
to work on all of their assigned projects as part of a two person team.
Responsibilities must be shared. All creative and personal differences
must be worked out amicably outside of class. Problems and conflict between
team partners have no place in the classroom, these issues and your ability
to deal positively with them is a measure of your maturity and professionalism.
If these problems intrude into the classroom environment it will be weighed
against your final grade.
7. Critique Sessions: Each team will present
their completed projects to the class at critique sessions on days assigned
by the professor. You are expected to be on time at the beginning of class
on your assigned screening day (lateness will carry a penalty to be levied
against your score on that project). All students are expected to display
an open and positive attitude at these sessions, to participate fully and
welcome criticism from their classmates and professor.
8. Required Reading: Herbert Zettl,
Television Production Handbook, Wadsworth Publishing Company, Belmont,
CA 1997, Sixth Edition.
