Video Development & Production Field Skills: Intensive is an online production course for beginning and intermediate students, looking to practice essential skills to create and record short videos. In development sessions, students will practice essential writing and communication skills as they develop a short, interview-based documentary or fiction project. Activities may include screening and analyzing films, writing a short project idea and script, developing interview questions and techniques, and creating storyboards.
In production sessions, students will learn or hone technical skills using camera, sound, and lighting in non-fiction and fiction exercises. Students will gain proficiency in HD video cameras, deepen foundations in cinematography (image design and frame composition), and practice recording with sound and lighting equipment on a few production setups.
By the end of the intensive course students will have gained practical experience with production activities and terminology used in standard video settings. Students will also have critical and analytical skills to review films and their own work with attention to conceptual and technical components.
No knowledge of video is required, but those with prior video experience or who already have ideas they would like to develop, are encouraged to take the course, which will be adapted for various levels. This two-week intensive course is a perfect opportunity for Evergreen students and community members to learn new skills that can support a current video project or the development of a new project for use in a future course, parallel ILC, or outside work.
As an online offering, this course is fully remote and features: workshops, hands-on exercises (during class and on your own), live zoom classes, asynchronous (pre-recorded) lessons, and screenings.
Variable Credit includes 8-credits or 4-credits options. 8-CREDIT students will complete production assignments and can plan for 35-40 hours of course time each week between online classes, asynchronous lessons, homework, and assignments to complete outside of class; 4-CREDIT students can plan for 20+ hours of course time each week between online classes and asynchronous lessons, with additional homework/assignments to complete outside of class. Full attendance is required to earn full credit. You CANNOT be enrolled in another class or have schedule conflicts during class meetings if you plan to earn full credit.
All students will need a high-speed computer with a camera, microphone, and internet connection to attend classes and complete assignments. A $50 user fee will allow 8-credit regional students to check out media equipment and use facilities on the Olympia campus. This fee will not be refunded for remote students who will need to provide their own recording equipment (a microphone, a camera and/or smartphone, and a computer robust enough to run editing software for the production assignments). Adobe software tools for editing may be provided by the College to all students if there are college licenses remaining. Students who are interested in completing production exercises on campus may have the option to do so depending on summer staffing and facility hours.
The class meets Tuesday-Thursday in weeks 4 and 5 the following dates and times (NOTE: 4 and 8 credit sessions):
Tues, July 18: 9-1PM 4 and 8 credit students, 2-4PM 8 credit students only
Wed, July 19: 9-4PM 8 credit students only
Thu, July 20: 9-1PM 4 and 8 credit students, 2-4PM 8 credit students only
Tue, July 25: 9-1PM 4 and 8 credit students, 2-4PM 8 credit students only
Wed, July 26: 9-2PM 8 credit students only
Thu, July 27: 9-1PM 4 and 8 credit students, 2-4PM 8 credit students
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Academic Details
Media, communications, film/video
Students can take the course for 4 or 8 credits. 8 credits students meet for longer days and have additional assignments.
$80 fee covers required media fee ($50) and program reader ($30).