20 courses with the subject MSP, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
MSP 107INTRODUCTION TO VIDEO PRODUCTION AND2
LITERACY........................................................................ Students are introduced to the theory and operation of digital cameras, elementary lighting and basic audio equipment, common professional video production, and filmmaking. After instructors explain the theory of production equipment, students complete assignments in basic equipment operation. The fundamentals of visual storytelling are emphasized. Through demonstrations and hands-on experience, students apply the basics of lighting, exposure, composition, sequencing, and non-linear editing techniques used by professionals in visual narrative storytelling. Students will develop and apply production skills to capture quality images and sound using digital video equipment. Using these skills, they learn to tell stories using video and sound. Projects developed are distributed over student and other community-based media. This course is subject to a course fee. Search Keyword: Communication Prerequisites: MSP 111 - Mass Media and Society with a minimum grade of C, OR SRT 104 - Introduction to Sound Recording Technology with a minimum grade of C, OR THA 105 Acting I with a minimum grade of C
MSP 125 or MSP 126 - Introduction to Broadcast Writing or Introduction to Scriptwriting..............................................................................................
MSP 125INTRODUCTION TO WRITING FOR BROADCAST NEWS2
This course explores the theory and practice to give students a foundation in the principles and practice of broadcast news reporting and writing. The course teaches students to organize, research, and write coherent news stories for broadcast using a variety of professional news styles. Students analyze written formats and styles used in radio and television newsrooms, choose sound bites, write broadcast news copy, and are introduced to professional information-gathering and interviewing techniques. Students write voiceovers and anchor readers and field packages. This course is subject to a course fee. Search Keyword: Communication Prerequisites:
Students analyze narrative scriptwriting for film and television . Emphasis is placed on the pitch, treatment, and professional formatting . Students apply the foundations of scriptwriting to original and adapted material. Students are encouraged to develop a unique voice by researching, writing, and editing preparatory, and marketing material for completed scripts. Students write scripts to form for film and television that are also used in advertising, public relations, gaming, animation, and narrative drama. This course is subject to a course fee. Search Keyword: Communication
This course introduces the basic building blocks of electronic journalism. It builds on basic broadcast writing skills and explains how professionals in mass media tell stories using digital technology. Students explore the reporter's role and the technology involved in news reporting. Students will apply their skills and develop stories, edit words, and produce both the pictures and sound as they prepare their stories and news packages for electronic distribution to a diverse audience over college, student, and community-based media. Students gain a clear understanding of the principles and professional practices of television news production and learn to critically evaluate the ethics and controversies in unbiased storytelling. This course is subject to a course fee. Search Keyword: Communication .. 4-2-6 MSP 270 LIVE PRODUCTION WORKSHOP III................................... 1-0-2 Students in this course will gain immediate supervisory-level hands-on experience producing media content for public distribution. Students will use professional equipment and software to supervise the production of newscasts; news and human interest reporter packages; narrative stories; and live and recorded event broadcasts. Students will also learn professional procedures, standards, and practices of media industries. This course is subject to a course fee. Search Keyword: Communication Prerequisites:
Students in this course will gain immediate entry-level hands-on experience producing media content for public distribution. Students will use professional equipment and software to assist in the writing and production of audio and video newscasts; news and human interest reporter packages; narrative stories; and live and recorded event broadcasts. Students will also learn professional procedures, standards, and practices of media industries. This course is subject to a course fee. Search Keyword: Communication
Students in this course will gain immediate mid-level hands-on experience producing media content for public distribution. Students will use professional equipment and software to assist in the writing and production of newscasts; news and human interest reporter packages; narrative stories; and live and recorded event broadcasts. Students will also learn professional procedures, standards, and practices of media industries. This course is subject to a course fee. Search Keyword: Communication Prerequisites:
Students explore the theory and practice of narrative video as an art form, entertainment medium, and a creative communication tool. Students learn about film structure as it relates to story development. Students explore camera features and increase their understanding of lighting, and editing techniques. Students assume below the line roles on a film crew. They collaborate to produce and distribute narrative projects for a diverse audience over student, college and community media. This course is subject to a course fee. Search Keyword: Communication
This course introduces students to the history, ideas, and vocabulary of cinema from the beginning of the film industry until the end of World War II. Students learn about the various cinematic styles, genres, and techniques used in filmmaking as an art form. Students view, analyze, and critique films from the beginning of the film industry until the end of WW II. The goal of this course is to teach students how to think and write about early cinema from a historical, cultural, and aesthetic perspective. This course is subject to a course fee. Search Keyword: Communication Corequisites:
This course will teach students how to research, analyze, and critique contemporary cinema. Students examine significant aesthetic developments in narrative, documentary, and experimental film history since WWII to gain a better understanding of the artistic, social, economic, and technological developments that helped create specific film movements inside and outside of the Hollywood studio system. The course focuses on individual films and filmmakers of the period. This course is subject to a course fee. Search Keyword: Communication Corequisites:
This class builds on scriptwriting skills introduced in MSP 126 as students develop an increased ability to present their ideas using a variety of methods and techniques of scriptwriting. Students analyze film and television scripts, styles and genres, and develop their understanding of audience as they work to find a writing voice. Students create a treatment, character bible, and script. They explore copyright, registration, employment, and guild issues and are introduced to the business of scriptwriting. During the workshop students read their work and listen to comments and critiques from their peers and faculty. This course is subject to a course fee. Search Keyword: Communication Prerequisites:
The popular arts of "the movies" is a carefully prepared constructions of sights and sounds. This course focuses on learning to get more enjoyment and meaning from these products of the image industries. The course examines how meaning is created and communicated through film. Basic concepts and techniques in constructing and interrelating visual and aural images will be discussed in light of film and video technology and techniques. This course is subject to a course fee. Search Keyword: Communication
In this survey course students analyze current issues in mass media by examining existing communications technologies, programming, and business models. They explore current issues related to cable TV, emerging technologies, interactive and satellite technologies, the Internet, fiber-optics, digital audio and video, HDTV, and nanotechnology. Students research topics of interest, analyze personal and business uses of emerging technologies, and examine their implications for the audience, users, producers, and distributors. Search Keyword: Communication Prerequisites:
This course reinforces basic video and film production skills, while the student is introduced to more advanced video and film production techniques. Emphasis is placed on the procedures and processes of preparing for and carrying out a documentary or narrative shoot. Students act as producers-directors. They pitch stories, write treatments and scripts, evaluate the role of the director and producer, produce a one-minute, three- minute, and five-minute project, and submit production books for review. Students individually produce these projects using professional production equipment and techniques. They are faculty and peer reviewed, evaluated, and presented as productions ready for distribution over various student, College, and community-based media. This course is subject to a course fee. Search Keyword: Communication Prerequisites:
Students assume individual roles on a film crew; analyze the theory and practice of narrative video as an art form, entertainment medium, and a creative communication tool; learn about film structure as it relates to story development; use advanced camera features and increase their understanding of more advanced lighting and editing techniques; and collaborate to produce and distribute narrative projects for a diverse audience over student, College, and community-based media. This course is subject to a course fee. Search Keyword: Communication
Students develop a critical understanding of the processes, aesthetics and technical theory involved in non-linear editing for narrative filmmaking and news production. Students examine diverse editing styles and ideas through reading and close analysis of a variety of TV and film examples. They learn new skills and editing techniques by working as the assigned editor on individual student and College-based projects. Students apply their understanding of editing workflow, sound design, screen direction, continuity, and pacing to projects distributed to student, College and community based media. This course is subject to a course fee. Search Keyword: Communication
