Media Production for Professional Writers

Catalog description

As the production of new media is made more accessible through a plethora of new and emerging communication technologies, writers must understand how to structure and guide the “production of messaging” while carefully considering the impact on target audiences. In this course, we focus on the intersection of writing, media production, and creative cultures. Merging discussions of theory with applied practice, students gain experience producing content across a range of media deliverables. From conceptualizing, scripting/storyboarding, capturing, editing, and showcasing, students engage in assignments that focus on text and image in digital contexts, aural presentations, and short video production. Students will also consume and review a range of media assets as a way to continually inform their content creation practices. Students work to unpack the dynamism and complexity of the numerous spaces, contexts, and formats that shape language, storytelling, representation, identity, and meaning-making. Embracing a workshop model, students will post work-in-progress drafts and give peer feedback across the semester. It is understood that students will enroll in the course with varying degrees of media making experience. All students will be encouraged to experiment with new tools and apply writing and communication acumen to multimodal media projects.