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Unit of Study COM10112 - From Page to Production: Essential Screen Skills (2017)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Pre-requisites

    72 credit points in any SCU units

  • Enrolment information

    This unit will have a compulsory residential workshop at the Lismore campus for external students.

Unit description

Introduces students to the theory and practice of video production: research, scripting, budgeting, directing, producing, camera operating, sound design, editing and presenting. Students will design and shoot a short video in a given genre.

Unit content

  • Composition
  • Lighting
  • Sound
  • Camera-work
  • Production management
  • Editing
  • Sound-editing
  • Titles, colour grading and effects
  • Output

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Lismore Session 1 Session 1
Online Session 1 N/A

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 Understand and apply pre-production processes in planning, scripting and storyboarding digital video projects
2 Understand key crewing functions in a screen industry production context
3 Demonstrate proficiency in operating portable cameras, microphones, and lighting equipment in digital video production contexts
4 Actively participate as a team member in the development and production of digital video projects

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. Understand and apply pre-production processes in planning, scripting and storyboarding digital video projects
    • GA2:
    • GA4:
  2. Understand key crewing functions in a screen industry production context
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
  3. Demonstrate proficiency in operating portable cameras, microphones, and lighting equipment in digital video production contexts
    • GA2:
    • GA4:
  4. Actively participate as a team member in the development and production of digital video projects
    • GA6:

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.