MMST12015  Digital Moviemaking

This course is both a practical introduction to digital video production and a critical examination of digital movies and the digital moviemaking “process”. Practical work focuses on script development, storyboarding, camera techniques, sound, digital video editing and exporting to a range of formats. In addition to these conceptual and technical skills, this course provides students with an analytical framework for exploring the creative and cultural significance of digital movies—mainstream and alternative, professional and amateur, off-line and online—as a form of communication. Assessment involves the creation and critique of a short digital movie. Distance education students who enrol in this course will need access to a video camera and video-editing software such as Adobe Premiere or Pinnacle Studio. Access to a multimedia computer with an Internet connection, audio capabilities, a CD-ROM drive and a Zip drive is also a requirement for this course. Students who enrol in this course are expected to have an understanding of the topics covered in COMM11005   Introduction to Communication & Culture.