Foundations of Media Design

Catalog description

This course provides a broad and rigorous orientation for all areas of media production. It begins with an activity-based study of the psychological and physiological bases for production/perception and the development of vocabularies for further work. Through the interplay between assignments in pre-production planning, design, photography, audio, film and video, students explore the underlying processes and principles of media making. Participants in the course become involved in readings, lectures, designing storyboards, viewing films and videotapes. Production experiences in sound, slide photography, multi-image, video and film animation are assigned.