COMM 354 - Digital Cinema

This course helps students become familiar with narrative film as a form of art, storytelling, and communication. It provides theoretical and practical foundations of cinema including ontological position, narrative construction, directing and audio-visual aesthetics. Digital film technology will be utilized as students will engage in narrative film projects. Through a broad survey of films and employed aesthetics students will learn to appreciate and practice cinematic expressions of human conditions. Camera and lens technology, cinematography, lighting, sound, compositing, and editing will be practiced at a higher level during production practices. Students can develop their own stories and audio-visual plans to produce short films.

Credits: 3
Terms Offered: Spring