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2013-2014 Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Television
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Bachelor of Arts
Minor
40-0404FS Advanced Television Production: On Location
2 Credits
40-1100 Sound for Cinema: Introduction
This introductory level course discusses theory and aesthetics of sound as it is used in film, & develops the workflows and vocabulary used for audio through all phases of production. Students record and edit audio to create stories that demonstrate the elements of a film soundtrack, including dialogue, sound effects, music, lull, and mix.
3 Credits
40-1101 The History of Television
Cultural history course examines not only the chronological development of television as a technology and an industry, but also explores also how television has become a part of our histories and, indeed, how TV has shaped history and our sense of it. Television is a primary source for the transmission of information, politics, entertainment, and our collective and dispersed cultures in the United States, surpassing even film and newspaper because of its combined accessibility and visual appeals. Since its arrival on the scene at the World’s Fair of 1939, TV has been the site through which we engage with any number of issues and events–from the most intimate to the most broadly social.
3 Credits
40-1103 Aesthetics and Storytelling
Course is the foundational course for future work in the TV Department. Whether students are aiming to be a director, writer, producer, or editor, the fundamentals of aesthetics in relation to TV are crucial to doing well in any of these areas. In this course we learn how to choose the right shots and how to construct a coherent sequence, as if we are constructing clear and understandable sentences (the sequence) out of the best words possible (the shot). To learn this skill, we at times break down things even further, focusing on the elements of shot construction (mise-en-scene, lighting, color, compositional balance and framing, perspective, etc.). Because these words and sequences are a specialized language, course will emphasize becoming proficient in terminology so that students can communicate with those whom they are trying to reach–from a crew they are a part of to a crew they are directing, and ultimately to the TV viewer who wants to hear their story. In Aesthetics II, we will expand on these ABC’s to help students develop their own voice as a storyteller.
3 Credits
40-1201 Speech:Communicating Message
Course includes effective presentation skills; the ability to persuade, motivate, inspire, teach, and react; and the ability to listen well. Television offers myriad examples of speakers. Course utilizes the medium for visual proof using cameras and microphones to videotape students for instant feedback, self-appraisal and motivation and employs a team approach for peer evaluation. This is a basic speech course incorporating skills of the media age: sound-bites, correct visual support, appropriate dress, body language and eye contact, speeches of persuasion, exposition demonstration, and motivation.
3 Credits
SP
40-1302 Television Arts: Production
Introductory class in the art of television production provides an overview, and basic, practical, hands-on experience in all aspects of today’s trends in the television industry. Although taught in a studio environment, this course will cover camera operation, sound, lighting, video transitions, and graphics as they relate to all forms of production. The final project for the class is the completion of three full productions created by students in the class.
4 Credits
40-1401 New Media Tools and Techniques in Contemporary Video Production
This class will introduce the new media tools and techniques often used in contemporary video production. Each week students will participate in hands-on demonstrations as new set of skills and tools will be discussed. Each week students will be assigned to complete a short 30-60 second video project utilizing the skills they learned in class. Students will be asked to experiment with various approaches to visual storytelling and think outside the traditional television formats.
3 Credits
40-1600 CVFX SUPERVISOR
This course focuses on the Visual Effects (CVFX) Supervisor as artistic author of visual effects, a key creative member of a film who manages the preparations and implementation of computer-generated imagery into a live action film.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2201 The Television Producer or 40-3423 Motion Graphics III
40-2100 Television Arts: Writing
Building on concepts and techniques introduced in Aesthetics and Storytelling, course allows students to explore basic methods of television writing for scripted and non-scripted formats. Students will develop craft skills basic to television writing: research, story structure, dialogue, and character development, all of which will prepare them for writing scenes and short scripts. Course will not only prepare the student to write full length scripts but will also help them grow as artists, learning to tell stories in a unique and personally meaningful way.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-1103 Aesthetics and Storytelling
40-2101 Post-Production Audio I
Entry-level Sound for Cinema course offers instruction and exploration into the methodology and skills training of sound design and mixing for cinema. Course includes an introduction to the Digital Audio Workstation for sound editing, enhancement and manipulation, andre-recording mixing of the various categories of cinema sound. Students work on a variety of cinema sound projects that mirror professional practice and foster development of the necessary skills to proceed through the Sound for Cinema pathway.
4 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-1103 Aesthetics and Storytelling and 40-2302 Production & Editing I
40-2102 Post-Production Audio II
Course explores the post-production techniques used in creating effective audio for film and video. Students develop aesthetic judgment by analyzing a variety of soundtracks and develop technical skills, including track building, ADR, Foley, and mixing, by employing these techniques in the design and creation of their own soundtracks.
4 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 43-2420 Audio for Visual Media I
40-2104 Music for Film & Video
Students are introduced to the language of film and how composers and music supervisors serve the needs of the frame while exploring the functions of the score and music licensing. Textural conceptualization and technology expanding emotional resonance are examined. Understanding the vocabulary of music, contemporary targeting issues impacting tone, voicing, spotting and the business of synchronization to picture are a vital component. Students develop musical application skills using analysis and creative projects to foster and enhance their understanding.
3 Credits
40-2106 The Art and Craft of Foley
This workshop course offers hands-on projects designed to prepare students to cue, perform, and edit Foley tracks as needed for film, animation, television, and games. Small class projects will include studio time for performing footsteps, props, and cloth for Foley. Final projects will require the cueing, shooting, and editing of Foley on student films.
2 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2102 Post-Production Audio II
40-2107 The Art and Craft of Automated Dialogue Replacement
This workshop course offers hands-on projects designed to prepare students to cue, perform, and edit Automated Dialogue Replacement tracks as needed for film, animation, television, and games. Small class projects will include studio time for recording principal performers and group ADR. Final projects will require the cueing, shooting, and editing of ADR on student films.
2 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2102 Post-Production Audio II
40-2201 The Television Producer
Course introduces the student to the duties of the television producer, focusing primarily on the producer’s role in creating differing types of programming. We will explore relationships with the production team, the director, writers, and the studio. Main goals include individual development in areas of problem solving, prioritization, team building, and scheduling for a successful project. The role of the producer in all phases of the production process will be emphasized.
3 Credits
WI
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-1302 Television Arts: Production and 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 40-1302 Television Arts: Production and 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 40-1302 Television Arts: Production and 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning or 40-1302 Television Arts: Production and 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II
40-2204 CVFX: Cinematography I
Course teaches students the methodology of visual effects production through practical, hands-on application. Students acquire general knowledge of a variety of skills needed to effectively produce and direct a visual effects sequence.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-1302 Television Arts: Production and 40-2302 Production & Editing I
40-2209 CVFX: Compositing I
Lectures and demonstrations, with supporting materials, along with weekly exercises to reinforce the ideas and principles put forth in these presentations, will guide students toward a solid fundamental understanding of the visual effects postproduction process via the compositing workflow. Students will be given the opportunity to show what they have learned by executing a basic final project at the end of the semester, with a subsequent critique by the class and individually with the instructor.
3 Credits
40-2301 Television Arts: Directing
Course builds on the production skills covered in Television Arts: Production and introduces the basic techniques of television directing. The course will focus on both multi-camera and single-camera directing techniques. Students will learn how to visualize and plan for a live, real-time scene, how to break down scenes for shooting out-of-order with a single camera, live switching techniques, storyboarding and visualization, camera and talent blocking, and working with actors. Students who complete this class will have experience in a variety of shooting styles found in television today.
4 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-1302 Television Arts: Production
40-2302 Production & Editing I
Practical, hands-on course helps students develop basic skills in field production and editing using DVCam field gear and Avid Express DV editing systems. Each student will learn and practice the fundamentals of field production in terms of conceptual development, planning and storyboarding, and finally editing and project management. Students will have the opportunity to put into practice the basic rules of visual composition, sequencing, and storytelling as learned in Aesthetics and Storytelling I, and successfully apply those concepts.
4 Credits
Requisites COREQUISITES: 40-1103 Aesthetics and Storytelling or 24-1510
40-2320 Lighting Topics: Talk Show
Course is designed to address special topics each semester that are of importance to students, but not necessarily worthy of an entire course. Topics will range from conceptual to technological and be completed in two to three intensive workshop days.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-1302 Television Arts: Production
40-2321 Technology Topics
Course is designed to address special topics each semester that are of importance to students, but not necessarily worthy of an entire course. Topics will range from conceptual to technological and be completed in two-three intensive workshop days.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-1302 Television Arts: Production
40-2322 Motion Graphics Photoshop Bootcamp
In this course students will learn fundamental skills in digital imaging through using Adobe Photoshop. Students will work on a combination of tutorials and creative projects to practice image capture, composition and output for print and for motion graphics. It is intended that students will take this class preceding or concurrently with Motion Graphics: Television and Film.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-1103 Aesthetics and Storytelling or 24-1710 Scrnwriting I: Writing the Short Film
40-2323 History of Motion Graphics
This course introduces students to Motion Graphics through a historical and cultural survey. The course will include early graphic animation, art based experimentation, technical milestones, historic and contemporary practitioners and inquiry into how we critically read this visual culture.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-3411 Motion Graphics I or 22-3447 Broadcast Design: Introduction
40-2330 Broadcast Law
Course concentrates on practical applications of broadcast law and examines various general principles that apply to the daily broadcast business. In addition to covering libel law and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), course encompasses issues related to radio employment contracts, trademarks, copyrights, the First Amendment, obscenity, and indecency.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-112
40-2401 Production and Editing II
Course helps students gain intermediate technical and aesthetic skills in field shooting and editing. Through a series of shooting and editing exercises, students will further develop skills introduced in Production & Editing. Topics include pre-production, planning, aesthetics, and idea development; intermediate shooting and lighting techniques; intermediate non-linear editing, titling, and effects; media management; basic color correction and use of video scopes; and shooting and editing styles and genres. These concepts will be implemented through a series of exercises culminating in the creation of an original student final video project.
4 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2302 Production & Editing I or 24-1010
40-2501 Video for Artists and Performers
Course is designed as an introductory course in the creative, aesthetic, and technical skills necessary to produce video. Students will plan, produce, and edit video as well as the integration of video into art making and performance. Students will work collaboratively on video installation, performance documentation projects. Students will be encouraged and assisted in expressing their artistic voice and exploring storytelling using digital video as a medium.
3 Credits
Requirements Sophomore status requird
40-2601 Creating the TV News Package
Course is designed to prepare a Broadcast Journalism student for shooting, interviewing, logging, and editing news package material. Hands-on/lecture course provides an opportunity for the future reporter and video journalist to practice with his or her own material in the production of news stories for television. Stand-ups, interviews, voice-overs, sound bites, cut-aways, writing to video, and the use of the television medium to tell the journalistic story are hallmarks of this course.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2622 Production and Aesthetics for Television News and 53-2310 Broadcast News Writing or 53-2310 Broadcast News Writing and 40-2302 Production & Editing I
40-2602J Television News Documentary, Concept to Broadcast
Course gives students the opportunity to explore single camera news documentary production, editing, and reporting. The students will be required to research and background on a topic of relevance and debate. They will have to prepare all the questions, as well as schedule and plan sit-down interviews with various experts and/or position people.
3 Credits
40-2621 On-Camera Talent
Course teaches the student the role of being on camera talent in a variety of different production situations. The varied roles of a live reporter, in a hard news deadline situation, the anchor’s roles on the news set, the host talent’s responsibility and interactions in the entertainment genres of talk, game, and magazine shows. The art of the interview, the how-to of writing scripts, researching guest, and formulating questions will also be included. The culmination of this class will be to conduct on camera interviews in Live, Pre-Taped, and location situations.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-1302 Television Arts: Production and 53-2310 Broadcast News Writing
40-2622 Production and Aesthetics for Television News
This class gives students a production course with a broadcast news focus. Students will learn aesthetics as it relates to television news and develop basic videography and editing skills for television news reporting.
4 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-1302 Television Arts: Production
40-2722 Screenwriting II: The Feature Film
Course trains students to produce longer and more complex screenplays and to facilitate a deeper understanding of the screenwriting process. To assist students in better developing character, story, and linear structure; to assist in developing systematic work habits to carry the student from Idea development through revisions to a completed script; and to provide students with the opportunity for consistent critique of their screenwriting.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2202
40-2788 Television Career Strategies
Course provides students with an overview of the marketplace and helps develop strategies for building a portfolio and resume videotape, refining interview techniques, and networking within the television business for employment opportunities. Class time is devoted to prioritizing and packaging personal data, creating resumes, and organizing videotape for the job search. Students will learn research and prospecting techniques from guest experts. Three hours of special editing time, for use during the summer months, will be granted to senior students who have passed this course.
1 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2302 Production & Editing I
40-2803 Culture, Race and Media
Course enables students to analyze subtle and subliminal messages about culture, race, ethnicity, gender, religion, class, and ability as presented to us through the media. The media–television, film, and print–has a pervasive influence upon how we view the world. Through open discussions of differences, research, and stimulating readings, we will learn who we are and why we view things the way we do. Expected outcomes include new insights into media influence and our responsibility as media makers, a research project, and self-examination of personal cultural and racial identity.
3 Credits
PL SS
Requirements 32 Completed Credit Hour
40-2806 Documentary Research and Writing
This course serves as a comprehensive overview of documentary research methods and approaches to pragmatic documentary writing. You will critically analyze and evaluate primary, secondary and tertiary sources and evidence; develop research protocols and methodology; and conduct primary research resulting in a working hypothesis leading to a proposal premise. You will synthesize research findings to draft various forms of documentary writing. Additionally, you will examine, understand and apply legal and ethical elements to documentary preproduction and preparation.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2100 and 40-2201
40-2920 Studies in Television
Course examines a specific topic within the field of television, rotating the topics on a regular basis to keep the course relevant to trends and issues within television and society. Today more than ever, TV is the primary storyteller in U.S. culture, and therefore the medium raises a constant stream of issues concerning everything from representation of groups to how parents raise their children. Classes focus on providing students with in-depth examinations of TV-related topics, with an overarching emphasis on the importance of approaching television and related issues from a variety of humanistic perspectives (philosophical, industrial, historiographical, etc.) so as to enrich and complicate our understanding of both the issue and TV.
3 Credits
Repeatable HU
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I and 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710 or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30
40-2921 Rock on Television
Course will study historic and revolutionary live performances on television. Television and rock music have exploded together in American pop culture. Using a rare video collection and a current textbook, Rock on Television will explore the role of television in promoting and changing rock music.
3 Credits
40-2923J Television Covers:
Course rotates topics that take an in-depth look at the television industry’s coverage of a particular issue, in dramas, documentary, news, and other forms of television programming.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I and 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710 or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30
40-3001 Transmedia Analysis: Games, Film and Television
Modern storytelling is not constrained to one medium. This course provides students with an opportunity to learn about the ways in which core narrative properties can be adapted to various media, specifically narrative games, television, and film. Through selected case studies, students will analyze the ways in which core narrative properties are defined, adapted, and transformed across media. This class is a prerequisite for the Semester in LA/Transmedia Production: Games, Film, and Television course.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 36-2800 Story Development for Interactive Media or 24-2710 Screenwriting II: The Feature Film or 40-3202 Writing for Television
40-3005C Transmedia Development: Game
This interdepartmental Semester in L.A. course brings students from various backgrounds together to develop their IP Bibles into material for the game industry. Each student will develop one piece of material, such as a short game or game sequence that incorporates at least one extensive dialogue tree and substantive narrative content.
3 Credits
Repeatable
40-3101 Emerging Media and Society
Course examines the role of emerging media related to the medium of television, considering the shifting impact of the internet and mobile media on how television is produced and consumed and understood. Students will examine issues that arise from the constantly shifting landscape of emerging media, including the role of industry and government, audience reception, social ethics, and creative production. Students discuss, debate, research, and write about current issues and topics of interest.
3 Credits
Requirements Junior Status or Above
40-3103 Advanced Location Sound Recording
This course applies principles of synchronous motion picture recording to advanced production. Students work on advanced projects on location with faculty supervision. Class sessions provide for discussions, exchange of experiences, and problem solving.
4 Credits
Repeatable
40-3122 Post-Production Audio III
Advanced level Sound for Cinema course designed to further student’s insight and experience into the art of preparing, mixing and re-recording sound tracks for film & video. Students work in collaborative environment to complete class projects that mirror professional industry cinema sound practice. Skills training and learning outcomes offered in this class represent the capstone in the Sound for Cinema pathway.
4 Credits
40-3126 Sound Mixing for Cinema
Sound Mixing For Cinema explores the advanced processes used to create effective state-of-the-art cinema sound mixes. In this intensive, hands-on studio course, students will study the latest trends in soundtrack aesthetics & rerecording technology and employ these techniques in mixing soundtracks for a variety of cinema genres & media.
4 Credits
40-3202 Writing for Television
Scriptwriting course is for students who already have a basic understanding of story structure, dialog, and character development. In this class the student will learn to write full-length television scripts and will study the structure and conventions of writing the sitcom, sketch comedy, and hour-long dramatic scripts. Student work will be read aloud and workshopped, step by step, in a traditional writers table’ story conference procedure. Each student will leave the course with at least one full-length, polished script from one of the featured genres.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2100 Television Arts: Writing or 24-1710 Scrnwriting I: Writing the Short Film
40-3209 CVFX: Compositing II
This course teaches students the various analogue and digital techniques of compositing film elements of diverse origin, from film, electronic imaging systems, and computer-generated images, through lecture, demonstration, and hands-on practice.
3 Credits
40-3211 Independent Producer Workshop
Course is intended to hone specific producing skills. The focus will be on independently produced programs, covering a wide range of styles and genres. Independent video/television will be examined from a historical perspective to set the stage for the students’ own work. This work will culminate in a final project.
4 Credits
WI
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2201 The Television Producer and 40-2401 Production and Editing II
40-3212 Critical Studies: Television
Course seeks to master methods of analysis that get beneath TV: historic and industrial, auteurism and genre, semiotics and psychoanalysis, postmodern, and ideological. Television is the primary source for the transmission of information, politics, entertainment, and our collective and dispersed cultures in the United States, surpassing even film and newspaper because of its combined accessibility and visual appeals. Further, TV has for decades now shaped how we tell and understand stories about the worlds we live in and those we hope to live in, from notions of race and gender to presidents and child-rearing. In students’ aspirations to become professionals in the field of television, understanding how TV operates culturally and socially in a sophisticated manner will ultimately make them better creative artists, producers, managers, screenwriters, etc.! We work from the premise that there is no such thing as just TV, for certainly the industry wouldn’t survive if everyone really could care less about what they watch.
3 Credits
WI Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning or 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II
Requirements 32 Completed Credit Hour
40-3213 Studies in Television
Course examines a specific topic within the field of television, rotating the topics on a regular basis to keep the course relevant to trends and issues within television and society. Today more than ever, TV is the primary storyteller in U.S. culture, and therefore the medium raises a constant stream of issues concerning everything from representation of groups to how parents raise their children. Classes focus on providing students with in-depth examinations of TV-related topics, with an overarching emphasis on the importance of approaching television and related issues from a variety of humanistic perspectives (philosophical, industrial, historiographical, etc.) so as to enrich and complicate our understanding of both the issue and TV.
3 Credits
HU
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I and 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710 or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30
40-3220 Programming & Station Operations
Advanced television course requires that students serve as the Operations Department of Columbia College’s television station, Frequency Columbia. All aspects of maintaining and operating a broadcast facility including programming, scheduling, recruiting, commercial and product sales, distribution, production, and promotions will be included in the experience of this high-profile, high-demand project.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2201 The Television Producer and 40-2301 Television Arts: Directing
40-3221 Writing the Situation Comedy
Advanced level scriptwriting course teaches the skills needed to write the most popular form in television today, the situation comedy. The class will require the students to write two half-hour comedies, one based on an existing prime-time television series, the other based on an original pilot concept. The scripts will be read and reviewed, step by step, in a classic writer’s table story conference procedure. In addition, there will be lectures on the writing of both the established sitcom as well as the original pilot episode.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-3202 Writing for Television or 24-1710 Scrnwriting I: Writing the Short Film
40-3222 Master Workshop Narrative: Writing
Advanced workshop course requires that students serve as staff writers for the Columbia College television series, Windows. Windows is a half-hour show consisting of six short (five-minute) segments that share a common theme. For each of the six segments, all writers will submit individual first drafts; half of those will be chosen by the writers to go to a second draft. The second drafts will be pitched to the executive producer, who will choose one script to go to a polished final draft. All phases of individual and collaborative writing, from concept development to finished script, will be experienced in this intensive course.
4 Credits
WI Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-3202 Writing for Television and 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 40-3202 Writing for Television and 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 40-3202 Writing for Television and 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning or 40-3202 Writing for Television and 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II
40-3224 Producing the Television Magazine Segment
Course teaches pre-production, production, and post-production techniques in the completion of several entertainment magazine-style segments. From conception to completion, each student will gain experience in interviewing, writing, storytelling, scheduling, and developing an artistic approach to various profile pieces to be aired on Frequency TV. Working as a team member with videographers, studio crews, editors, graphic artists, and Frequency TV staff members, the student will gain invaluable experience in all facets of being a producer.
4 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2201 The Television Producer and 40-2401 Production and Editing II
40-3225J Master Workshop Narrative: Pre-Production
Course requires that students in this advanced producing workshop work on preproduction for the Television Department’s annual television pilot, to be produced in the Spring by the Master Workshop Narrative: Producing & Directing courses. Students will work on budgets, casting plans, location scouting, legal, script breakdowns, and other processes necessary to prepare for a major production of a television pilot. Students are highly encouraged to register for the Master Workshop Narrative: Producing course in the spring.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-1302 Television Arts: Production and 40-2201 The Television Producer
40-3226 Master Workshop Narrative: Producing
Advanced workshop course requires that students serve as producers and directors for a new Columbia College anthology fiction series. Students will have the opportunity to experience all phases of collaborative producing, from concept development throughout the finished program segments.
4 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2201 The Television Producer and 40-2301 Television Arts: Directing and 40-2401 Production and Editing II
40-3227 Decision Makers in Media
Course studies television broadcasting’s structure and all of the issues affecting the decision-making process. Students will consider the human and economic factors governing decision making in all phases of television operations. Lectures and field trips will focus on situations that influence management decisions, including research, programming, advertising sales, rating systems, and management styles with emphasis on decisions in day-to-day operations at the top levels of management. Cross-listed with Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management 28-4670 Decision Making: The Television Industry.
3 Credits
Requirements 32 Completed Credit Hour
40-3230 Master Workshop Sketch Comedy: Writing
This advanced course is designed to teach the skills needed to write proficiently within the popular television genre of sketch comedy. Course will require students to create and write original sketches and commercial parodies. The sketch ideas will be pitched, improvised, drafted, read, reviewed, and revised step by step, in a classic writer’s table story conference procedure before moving on to the rehearsal and production process. Students will collaborate closely with the students and instructors of the Production and Producing courses. The end product of this collaboration, Out on a Limb or FreqOut will be aired live on Frequency TV.
4 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-3202 Writing for Television and 40-2100 Television Arts: Writing
40-3231 Writing for Television Genre
Course is an advanced level writing class with much time devoted to the development of analytic skills. The class will be broken up into two parts. The first will be an investigation of a variety of analytic methods. The second half will be spent examining a variety of genres and writing a series of outlines and script excerpts. The topics would include action/adventure, melodrama, drama, comedy, mystery, and science fiction. Each would be examined with examples drawn from both current and past television programming. The class would conclude with the completion of a full-length script.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2202 or 24-1710 Scrnwriting I: Writing the Short Film
40-3232 Television Program Development
Course requires that students work with their colleagues and the instructor to enhance their skills in storytelling and in pitching their baby to industry executives from cable to network to public and independent services. Television program development is a creative and intense process that takes you from the germ of a story idea to a fully thought out series or program. It takes practice, and blood, sweat, and tears–and thankfully can be highly rewarding on a variety of levels!
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2100 Television Arts: Writing and 40-2201 The Television Producer
Requirements 3.0 GPA required and 64 Completed Credit Hour
40-3233J Creating the Cooking Show Bible
This course introduces the student to the duties and responsibilities of the producer of the Cooking Show, focusing primarily on the producer’s role in creating a cooking show for television or internet. We will explore relationships with the production team, the director, writers and the audience. Main goals include individual development in areas of problem solving, prioritization, team building, budgeting, and scheduling for a successful project. Special emphasis will be placed on understanding the role of the culinary producer. The role of the Producer in all phases of the production process will be emphasized.
2 Credits
40-3234 Developing the Reality Show
Course is designed to introduce the student to the creative and business aspects of designing an original reality show pilot. Students will be required to pitch and develop an original reality show from idea to finished treatment with budget, locations, and a sample episode that includes tasks and games. Students would also be required to put together story lines for 13 additional episodes to illustrate the season progression of the show. Students will leave the class with a fully developed reality show ready to pitch and submit to buyers.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2201 The Television Producer and 40-1103 Aesthetics and Storytelling
40-3236 Video for Internet and Mobile TV
Course will look at the emergence of various technologies (iPods, phones, Web) into the culture. The class includes both an examination of aesthetic issues and the technology involved in both producing and preparing media for this emerging market.
3 Credits
Requirements 30 Completed credit hour
40-3237 Writing for Internet and Mobile TV
Writing course focuses on short-form videos that have developed due to the growth of a variety of distribution avenues. iPods, cell phones, You Tube, and My Space have created the opportunity for a variety of programming that are both an extension of existing television programs as well as new story telling forms that blur traditional lines. Students will analyze, develop, and write scripts appropriate for this emerging media.
2 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2100 Television Arts: Writing or 40-3202 Writing for Television or 40-2202 or 24-1710 Scrnwriting I: Writing the Short Film
40-3238 Script Analysis:
Course is a special topics class that examines the script of one episode of a television series from a variety of perspectives including historical, cultural, and textural. Each episode will be viewed, the script read, and then critiqued using a variety of different approaches. The class will conclude with each student writing an analysis from one of the approaches utilized during the class. Course is appropriate for students in all concentrations.
1 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2100 Television Arts: Writing or 24-2700 Script Analysis
40-3239 Producing for the Master Workshops
In this advanced workshop, students will serve as producers for one or more of the Television Department’s advanced television programs. Students will have the opportunity to experience all phases of collaborative producing, from concept development through finished program. Students may work in one or more of a number of genres, including sketch comedy, live music, or other entertainment / informational programming.
4 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2201 The Television Producer and 40-2301 Television Arts: Directing and 40-2401 Production and Editing II
40-3240 Web Series Producer
This class will cover the responsibilities of a web series producer with focus on launching, distributing, and growing a loyal audience of internet and mobile viewers. Each student will be responsible for building an online presence for and launching of a completed web show. Students in the Web Series Producer course will have an option to collaborate with students in Video for Internet and Mobile TV course and help develop an audience for content created in that class.
3 Credits
Requirements 30 Completed credit hour
40-3241 Writing the Television Pilot: Hour Drama
Writing the Television Pilot: Hour Drama is an advanced level writing class devoted to the development and writing of an original hour-long TV pilot script. The first part of the class will be spent examining the unique qualities and responsibilities of a TV pilot: to introduce plot, story, character, relationships and mystery. The second half of the class will be spent pitching ideas, developing, work shopping, and table reading multiple drafts the student’s original pilot script. The class would conclude with the completion of a full-length pilot script for an hour-long television drama.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-3202 Writing for Television or 24-1710 Scrnwriting I: Writing the Short Film
40-3242 Branded Entertainment Practicum
In this cross-disciplinary course, students will gain an invaluable production,branding and social media strategy experience, in addition to working on a real client project. They will partner with a local small business owner and develop, produce and launch an online branded entertainment video series. The semester will start with an overview of best practices in branded entertainment in the digital age. Successful projects will be screened and discussed. All students will research local businesses and brainstorm how an online video series could help them find the right audience, energize customers or create a conversation surrounding their product or service. One local business will be selected and the class as a group will partner with the owner in creating a branded entertainment online video series. Through a series of brainstorming sessions and pitches students and the business owner will develop a show idea, and a social media strategy for its distribution. In the second half of the semester students will work on pre-production, production, post-production and distribution of a 3-part branded online video series.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2201 The Television Producer and 40-2401 Production and Editing II
40-3310J Television Equipment Practicum
Course provides students with intensive, hands-on practice with the central pieces of production equipment found in the control room: the video switcher and audio console. Students will gain valuable insight into the operation of these devices, as well as greater understanding of the roles of the operators within the context of production.
1 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2301
40-3311 Advanced Lighting and Camera
Lighting and camera course is required for students in both the Production and Post-Production/Effects concentrations. Focusing on advanced techniques for lighting and camera operations, students will further develop their understanding and skills gained in the basic core courses. Hands-on work as well as a deeper understanding of the principles and concepts that guide these production techniques will be the hallmark of this upper-level course.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-1302 Television Arts: Production and 40-2302 Production & Editing I
40-3312 Master Workshop Sketch Comedy: Directing & Production
Advanced course further develops directing skills specifically for live performance, utilizing larger studio facilities and creating more sophisticated productions. The students will be required to produce and direct variety show productions that approach professional broadcast and commercial levels.
4 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2401 Production and Editing II and 40-2301 Television Arts: Directing
40-3314 Directing and Production: Narrative
Advanced course further develops directing skills specifically in dramatic performance, utilizing larger studio facilities, and will be co-taught with a Theater/Music Department offering. The combined classes will examine the complex orchestration required to capture the theatrical performance using the sophisticated technology of television. Student directors will become acquainted with the special rigors and disciplines of performing as well as the creative challenge it creates.
4 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2301 Television Arts: Directing
40-3315 Directing and Production: Television Magazine Segment
Course explores approaches to directing for expanding magazine/interview-based styles of television programming and work as crew on a wide variety of both field and studio productions. Students will interact with producers, shooters, and editors enrolled in other Television Department courses to create program segments, both single and multiple camera, for Frequency TV.
4 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2301 Television Arts: Directing
40-3316 Remote Television Production
Course teaches students to adapt their knowledge of both studio and field production, utilizing a mobile remote production truck to shoot on location at a variety of events in and around Chicago. Sports, news, and production for the Television Department’s own cable programs are researched, produced, and directed by students. Productions include music, performance, and selected scenes from departmental drama or sketch comedy. Emphasis is placed upon pre-planning, meeting deadlines, survey of locations, and performance of a wide range of crew duties, including directing.
4 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2301 Television Arts: Directing
40-3317 Directing and Production: Live Broadcast
Course requires that students serve as the technical/production arm for NEWSBEAT, a twice-weekly newscast produced for and broadcast live throughout the campus of Columbia College. All aspects of the studio production, including directing, audio, camera, switching, graphics, and videotape, will be emphasized and further developed as part of the deadline-oriented, fast-paced learning experience.
4 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2301 Television Arts: Directing
40-3318 Directing and Production: Special Projects
Advanced class teaches students studio and field production skills in a topics-specific setting. Students gain directing experience in one or more of the following contexts: multiple camera studio production, single camera field directing, remote multi-camera directing, music programming, or specialty television production. The course will culminate in the creation of an advanced-level television program in conjunction with other disciplines and departments. Emphasis is placed upon pre-planning, meeting deadlines, and performance of a wide range of crew duties, including directing.
4 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2301 Television Arts: Directing
40-3319 Directing the Webisode
Course will focus on all aspects of directing and production as they pertain specifically to the webisodic series. The internet and mobile modes of distribution have created a space for a new form of episodic content: The Webisode. Students will work in all areas of directing and production to shoot a complete, 9-episode, original web series written in the Writing For Internet and Mobile TV class. The series will consist of short form, 3-minute episodes with directing and production needs unique to the emerging genre. Students will work collaboratively as a production company through all aspects of pre-production and production. The result will be a fully realized webisodic series.
4 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2301 Television Arts: Directing and 40-2401 Production and Editing II
40-3321 Advanced Control Room Techniques
Equipment operation course focuses on the Studio A control room, building on the skills gained in the Television Equipment Practicum. Students will spend a significant portion of the class time working with the production switcher and the digital video effects system. Course is an advanced elective in both the Production and Post-Production concentrations.
2 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2301 Television Arts: Directing
40-3324 Experimental Video Workshop
Advanced-level production course explores experimental video (and mixed media work that utilizes video) as an art form. This will include videotape, digital multimedia, Web art, and other convergences of art and technology. Each student will produce (from conception to post-production) an original, genre-defying digital video program or installation.
4 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-3412A Experimental Production and Editing or or 40-3412C Documentary Production and Editing or 40-3412
40-3325 Master Workshop Narrative: Directing & Production
In this advanced workshop, students will serve as directors and crew for the Television Department’s anthology drama series. Students will work with actors and producers to shoot a half-hour long dramatic program. All phases of single camera location shotting will be covered, including directing, staging, lighting, sound, and camera.
4 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2301 Television Arts: Directing and 40-2401 Production and Editing II
40-3327 Fictional Documentary
Advanced video production workshop course explores the line that separates documentary and narrative media. Students in the class will examine the works of documentarians who are using fictional elements and narrative techniques in their work to call into question concepts of truth and reality and to expand the definition of documentary. Concepts covered include narrative shooting and editing techniques, research, scripting, recreations, and working with actors and subjects. Each student will produce a video project that has factual and fictional elements and that challenges the traditional definition of documentary.
4 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-3412A Experimental Production and Editing or 40-3412B Narrative Production and Editing or 40-3412C Documentary Production and Editing
40-3328 The Documentary Production Team
This course functions as a production company with students developing and producing segments for a single film. The idea for the film is collaboration between the team and Columbia’s Critical Encounters initiative. The team decides on division of labor, ownership and general company policies. Additional topics include advanced proposal writing and grant application as well as narration and script writing. Students will produce collateral materials including publicity, study guides and DVD extras. The team is responsible for meeting stringent deliverable guidelines.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-3412C Documentary Production and Editing
Requirements Permission of Instructor
40-3330 Community Media: Mentoring Through Sports
In this service learning course, columbia students will act as mentors/supervising crew for high school students from local community media non-profit Free Spirit Media on a variety of sport-related multicamera productions. Columbia Television students and students from FSM will work as a team in scouting, planning and executing live-to-tape sports events. Advanced television students will use their experience to help train FSM students in the use of the multicamera School of Media Arts production truck and will gain experience in creating sports programming. They will also interact with members of various Chicago neighborhoods and gain experience in working in a non-profit community media environment.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2301 Television Arts: Directing
40-3340 Documenting Social Injustice
Course enables students to become familiar with the range of diversity issues–race, ethnicity, gender, religion, class, etc.–through extensive readings and videos. Social justice education is both a process and a goal and involves students who have a sense of their own agency as well as a sense of social responsibility toward others and society as a whole. Class tours several sites of ethnic art, activism, and social justice. Students work in teams on documenting their impressions and comparing the classroom with the experiential with help from experts in the field.
3 Credits
SS
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2803 Culture, Race and Media or 40-2302 Production & Editing I or 40-2622 Production and Aesthetics for Television News or 24-2803 Culture, Race and Media or 54-2990 Culture, Race and Media or 46-1100 Introduction to Cultural Studies
40-3402 PostProduction Bootcamp: Avid Techniques
This postproduction course is designed to give students in the Postproduction & Effects concentration an intensive workshop exploring the tools, editing processes and workflow of the Avid editing system. Through a series of demonstrations and editing assignments, students will learn the complete process of finishing a television program, from initial input of materials to the final output of deliverables. The course is specifically meant for students who come from other editing platforms (such as Final Cut Pro) who already have a good baseline for postproduction techniques, but need to launch themselves into Avid-specific tools and techniques.
2 Credits
40-3403 Creating the Online Learning Video
Creating the Online Learning Video is a 4-credit production and editing course that teaches students how to create high-quality video tutorials with accompanying online training tools. Students will partner with Columbia College instructors who want to develop online tutorial content for their courses and work with the instructor to create a video tutorial for one unit (several lectures) of the course, using the lynda.com production model.
4 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2401 Production and Editing II
40-3411 Motion Graphics I
Course enables students to develop a command of several methods of producing graphics specifically designed for television. Through a series of lectures and assignments, students will produce examples of various forms of television graphics. Planning, storyboarding, and designing images as well as the aesthetic issues of 2-D design for television will be addressed. Students will become competent in designing still images, sequencing images, compositing images, and producing motion graphics for television. The final production of the assignments will be integrated into a program and output to tape.
4 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2302 Production & Editing I or 24-1020 Production II or 36-1300 Digital Image Design or 22-1320 Design Lab
40-3412A Experimental Production and Editing
Course is an advanced level production class in which students create an original, individually conceived piece of video art. The course is an introduction to the history of experimental video and video artists, as well as project development, production, and editing techniques that are specific to experimental video. Students learn advanced techniques of shooting and editing including non-traditional camera techniques, audio and microphone techniques, field lighting, graphics and effects integration, and integration of other art media. Students also learn how to develop voice and point of view and are highly encouraged to produce an original work that defies standard television genres and conventions. Editing is accomplished using a non-linear editing workstation.
4 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2100 Television Arts: Writing and 40-2401 Production and Editing II
40-3412B Narrative Production and Editing
Course is an advanced level production class in which students create an original, individually conceived narrative work. Course looks at the various types of narrative genre, as well as project development, production, and editing techniques that are specific to narrative television. Students learn advanced techniques of shooting and editing including camera techniques and setups, audio and microphone techniques, field lighting, narrative story structure, script breakdown techniques, and storyboarding. Students also learn how to develop voice and point-of-view as well as understand how to work within the various narrative contexts. Editing is accomplished using a non-linear editing workstation.
4 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2100 Television Arts: Writing and 40-2401 Production and Editing II
40-3412C Documentary Production and Editing
Course is an advanced level production class in which students create an original, individually conceived documentary video. Course is an introduction to documentary theory and history, as well as project development, production, and editing techniques that are specific to television documentary. Students learn advanced techniques of shooting and editing including hand-held camera, audio and microphone techniques, field lighting, interviewing techniques, and documentary story structure. Students also learn how to develop voice and point-of-view as well as understand how to work within the various documentary genres.
4 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2100 Television Arts: Writing and 40-2401 Production and Editing II
40-3421 Advanced Post Production Workshop
Course is designed for advanced level post-production students and addresses new technologies and procedures used in professional post environments. Students will use Avid Media Composer to learn advanced editing and effects techniques; project management strategies in a cross-platform environment; and advanced color correction strategies. Course will also include advanced concepts of digital production and broadcast and High Definition TV standards. All footage will be provided by the instructor to achieve class goals.
4 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2401 Production and Editing II and 40-3402 PostProduction Bootcamp: Avid Techniques
40-3422 Motion Graphics II
Course enables students to develop a command of graphic design through compositing images for video and television. Through a series of exercises and experiments with PhotoShop and AfterEffects, students learn methods of translating concepts into motion graphics. Television and movies special effects are deconstructed and analyzed. Motion graphics are translated into Quicktime movies for integration into television, Web, DVD, and film productions.
4 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-3411 Motion Graphics I or 24-4420 Motion Graphics I or 22-3447 Broadcast Design: Introduction
40-3423 Motion Graphics III
Students in this course complete a series of projects modeled upon current professional practices while refining design and research skills. Student projects include a team-based client work, an independent textual interpretation or research-inspired animation, and additional short animations. The team-based projects will include interaction with the client/s. Research, ideation, prototyping, production and evaluation will be a collective and collaborative process. Students develop a portfolio-based web site that includes video samples, a personal statement and resume.
4 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-3422 Motion Graphics II or 24-4421 Motion Graphics II
40-3424 Advanced Post-Production: Finishing the Television Program
Course addresses a broad range of advanced post-production techniques necessary to finish a television program. Demands of the current production industry require that an editor knows how to do more than simply edit. As the tools become increasingly sophisticated and powerful, today’s editor needs a variety of skills to take advantage of the features found in nonlinear editing systems. Students will finish an online edit of a television program, including graphics, title design, effects compositing, audio mixing, and sweetening.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-3412
40-3424D Advanced Post-Production: Prime Time
Course addresses post-production issues relating to editing comedy projects as well as the departmental show. The student will learn to work with a team, i.e., a producer, a director, and a writer, in a post-production atmosphere. Emphasis will be on producing finished videotape, with the content to be determined by the editor client relationship and weekly edit sessions with deadlines. Practical tutorials will focus on advanced editing techniques, styles, and strategies for editing on a non-linear system. Classroom time is spent working with your assigned team to edit and review the edit. Critical skills will be developed through in-class critiques. Critique will take place while the student’s work is on the non-linear system so that we may take advantage of the non-linear system’s unique capabilities for multiple versions of the edit in order to develop individual style of editing.
4 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-3411 Motion Graphics I and 40-3402 PostProduction Bootcamp: Avid Techniques or 40-3411 Motion Graphics I and 40-3402 PostProduction Bootcamp: Avid Techniques
40-3424J Advanced Post-Prod:Finishing the TV Program
Course addresses a broad range of advanced post-production techniques necessary to finish a television program. Demands of the current production industry require that an editor knows how to do more than simply ‘edit.’As the tools become increasingly sophisticated and powerful, today’s editor needs a variety of skills to take advantage of the features found in non-linear editing systems. Students will finish an online edit of a television program, including graphics, title design, effects compositing, audio mixing, and sweetening.
2 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-3411 Motion Graphics I and 40-3412B Narrative Production and Editing or 40-3412C Documentary Production and Editing
40-3425 Introduction to 3D for Motion Graphics
4 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 24-4421 Motion Graphics II or 40-3422 Motion Graphics II
40-3427J Motion Graphics and Color: Correction and Grading
Course goal is to teach students how the use of color through color grading, correction, and vignetting can effect the perception of film and video content. Students will consider these aesthetic concerns while learning to perform color correction and grading of film/video projects using Apple’s Color. The course emphasizes creativity and storytelling through manipulating and creating unique visuals that can be applied to later work in motion graphics and final post production.
1 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-3411 Motion Graphics I or 24-4420 Motion Graphics I
40-3428 Motion Graphics: Flash & AfterEffects for TV/Video
Course enables students to develop a command of several methods of producing graphics specifically designed for television and video using Flash and AfterEffects software. Planning, storyboarding, and designing images as well as the aesthetic issues of 2-D animation for television and video will be addressed. Lectures and in-class assignments will address graphics design, visual storytelling, sequencing images, exporting Flash for television, and video. The final product will be the creation of a project for incorporation into video, Web, or DVD.
4 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-3411 Motion Graphics I
40-3430 ePortfolio for Media Arts
Course will teach students to represent their work most effectively on the Internet using appropriate media combinations. Documentation and porfolio sites become works of their own as they reconstruct and annotate pieces in other media such as performances and installations. Course is for intermediate to advanced students in any media. Previous Web design and construction experience is not required. Experienced Web designers can take their work to the next level, incorporating animation, interactivity, and multiple media.
3 Credits
Repeatable
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-3411 Motion Graphics I
Requirements 32 Completed Credit Hour
40-3512 DVD Design and Production I
Course introduces the sciences of storytelling and interface design, along with supporting software, to enable students to achieve a basic level of competency in interactive DVD design. Course emphasizes learning the foundations of professional craftsmanship in authoring interactive productions. The goal of the course is to learn the craft of designing a dynamic interactive experience. Fundamental principles of interface design, graphics, and motion menus in the production of a DVD are addressed using flow charting software as well as PhotoShop, AfterEffects, Final Cut Pro, and DVD Studio Pro. A new set of interdisciplinary skills will be formulated to participate in the rapidly expanding DVD industry.
3 Credits
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 40-2401 Production and Editing II and 40-3411 Motion Graphics I
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