Motion Media: Movement & Motion
Video Production: Capture & Post-Production
Microcredential

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The microcredential will create an additional element of employability for individuals who pursue the this path. Students in this microcredential will have acquired skills in camera use, video-editing, and software use with Adobe Lightroom and Premiere. Opportunities for crossover include photography, graphic design, marketing where the skills acquired in the Capture and Editing microcredential would make those individuals more marketable. A student editing a video using prosfessional software

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Stackable

MVCC Microcredentials

Gain these in-demand skills

  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Lightroom
  • cinematography
  • digital photography
  • DSLR cameras
  • photography
  • storytelling
  • video editing
  • visual communication

Course List (4)

Introduction to Video Production VP101 3 cr.

This course covers the theory, role, scope, and practice of video editing and introduces the ways and means to edit video to communicate effectively with an audience. Emphasis is placed on formulating basic editing procedures with particular stress on understanding software abilities and limitations. It investigates approaches to shaping and formatting video content and communicating conceptual elements to an audience.

Cinematography VP102 3 cr.

This course covers the theory, role, scope, and practice of utilizing video as a means to tell stories and relay information to an audience. Emphasis is placed on advanced video editing procedures with particular stress advanced sound capture techniques. Emphasis is also placed on utilizing story boards as a means for ideation and revision. It further investigates approaches to shaping and formatting video and audio content and communicating conceptual elements to an audience. Prerequisite: VP101 Introduction to Video Production

Multimedia Photography PT106 3 cr.

This course introduces the techniques of multimedia production. The techniques of DSLR video production are explored and students shoot and edit video captured from HD DSLR cameras. Students produce videos focusing on technical skills and storytelling through multimedia elements. Prerequisite: PT207 Digital Photography 1: Camera and Editing

Digital Photography 1: Camera & Editing PT207 3 cr.

This course introduces techniques used to create, edit, and manipulate photographs through digital processes. Topics include image capture and input methods, workflow, editing in the digital darkroom, and output techniques for black and white as well as color images. Students operate a DSLR camera, and are introduced to Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop. Photographic composition and aesthetics, and their use as a form of visual communication, are emphasized.

 

Faculty

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Christine Miller, Professor