Media practice cultivates understanding and proficiency with design and production. This curriculum is practice based, allowing students to conceive real projects, develop individual design approaches, and utilize the technical tools to create them. These courses present media production formats as tools of communication (means to the end of creating aural and visual messages) rather than promoting the mastery of particular equipment and software as sufficient ends in themselves.
Instruction in Media Practice courses frames the necessary technical training within a larger context of design and production conceptualization and research. It also promotes a cross-platform or comparative approach: students discover how processes and tools translate within and between media formats. Students achieve understanding of and proficiency with the aesthetic and technical capabilities of each production medium, explore the interrelationships and interdependencies between them, and create work from start to finish.
Beyond the practice courses, Media Project courses provide more experiences and challenges, requiring students who've attained a level of proficiency in a particular production format to apply their skills and aesthetics to create more complex media messages.
Shooting and recording is done on supplied cameras, microphones, and audio recorders. Digital image production and all post-production is done on supplied digital editing workstations with current and appropriate software. In-class listening/viewing, analysis and critique, and assigned readings provide support and context for production work.
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