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  • 3.00 Credits

    This course combines commercial, documentary and fine art photography in the creation of successful protraits. Historic and contemporary portrait styles and techniques will be discussed and demonstrated. Assignments will instruct students in the technical elements of portraiture including camera lighting, background, and posing. Prerequisite: ARTM3300
  • 3.00 Credits

    Students enrolled in Documentary Photography will learn the history and practice of visual story telling. In consultation with faculty, students will develop their own research topic based on interests and project viability. In-class critiques will not only address student's photographic work, but also discuss issues of social and ethical concern. Prerequisite: ARTM2005 or ARTM3300
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course explores the role of photojournalism in the newsgathering and news reporting processes, and the activity of a photojournalist in fulfilling that role. Students will learn to originate single pictures and multiple image stories covering news, sports, and features. Aspects of journalism such as the generation of story ideas, research, and visual execution will be addressed, as well as legal and ethical issues that affect photojournalists. Students will also develop writing skills in developing photo captions and generating text to support photo essays. Prerequisite: ARTM2005 or ARTM2020
  • 3.00 Credits

    In Commercial Photography I students will be introduced to lighting, composition, and specialized camera techniques used in commercial photography, press photography, and photojournalism. Students will work within the studio and on-location with artificial lighting both tungsten and strobe. Relevant topics will aso be discussed, including shooting glass, metal, and other challenging materials, as well as the demands of working on location. Prerequisite: ARTM3310
  • 3.00 Credits

    In this course, students will learn to create unique and compelling photographs while traveling outside of the United States on a faculty-led excursion. Students will learn about photographing landscapes, nature, and people while engaging with the culture, history, and heritage of another country.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course examines a major aesthetic or other theoretical issue, trend or film or video maker in great depth. It will investigate the aesthetic and cultural issues, making connections to film theory, related media and cultural analysis, and historical overview. The subject matter will be different each time this course is taught, enabling students to take this course several times with the permission of the instructor, providing the subject is not one being repeated. 3 credits Prerequisite: ARTM3880
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will expose students to all aspects of sound design for video productions from a theoretical and practical perspective. Through hands-on exercises students will learn how to create a successful soundtrack for a project using elements like voice-over, music, and sound effects to help tell the story. At the same time, students will engage in the analysis of sound for films and video to gain a historical and conceptual perspective on the importance of soundtracks when working on an audiovisual piece. Students will be responsible for acquiring, editing, improving, processing, mixing, and synchronizing sound for production and post-production assignments. Prerequisite: ARTM2430
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will familiarize students to most aspects of video post-production, including advanced editing concepts and techniques, sound design, title/credit creation, and final output. Students will develop advanced editing skills using Final Cut Pro and Avid systems, while also discussing various stylistic and aesthetic approaches to post-production and montage. Preparing movies for various distribution outlets will also be addressed. We will use iDVD to put final projects on disc, learning how to create basic interfaces for digital video discs. The class will be studio based, and footage for most assignments will be provided. Prerequisite: ARTM2430
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course is designed to prepare students to enhance their craft of lighting for video. In order to understand the technical, aesthetic and compositional aspects of lighting for video and electronic media, students participate in a variety of lighting and shooting environments. The course examines light sources, lighting styles and the application of tools for achieving desired objectives. The course analyses the evolution of lighting styles in fiction and non-fiction film, commercials and music videos. Prerequisite: ARTM2430
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will emphasize the relationship between graphic design and the moving image and sound environment. Through guided in class exercises and individual assignments students will learn how to bring their still graphics and photographic images alive through the use of Adobe After Effects and Final Cut Express. Basics of keyframe animation will also be addressed through the combination of graphics created in Adobe Photoshop and animated using editing software. This class will be studio based. Students will be responsible for the creation of all the graphics used in individual assignments. Prerequisite: ARTM2020
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