Communication 3560 - 001
Video Production I Course Syllabus
Fall 2014
Class meeting: M, W / 10.45 AM – 12.40 PM LNCO 2750
Instructor: Penchan Phoborisut
Office Hours: after class and by appointment
Office: LNCO 2930
Email: penchan.phoborisut@utah.edu
(Email is the quickest way to reach the instructor. Do not send a private message on
Canvas)
Recommended Books:
Zettl, Herbert. Video Basics 7. (Seventh Edition) Wadsworth. 2013.
Mick Hurbis-Cherrier. Voice & Vision: A Creative Approach to Narrative Film and DV
Production. Focal Press. 2007.
Objectives:
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2)
3)
4)
To demonstrate fluency in video production terminology.
To apply visual communication and photography skills in video production properly.
To understand fundamentals of the production process.
To demonstrate knowledge of the production team and the duties and
responsibilities of each crew position.
5) To demonstrate knowledge of the aesthetics of video production.
6) To effectively produce, direct and edit a program from conception to completion.
Class Procedure:
This course consists of both individual and team projects. It requires commitment from
team members and extra hours beyond class time. Everyone is encouraged to have an
active role in each assignment. When selecting team members, try to find people who
share similar schedule or free time to work on the projects. Details of each assignment
can be found in this syllabus and Canvas.
Facility and Equipment
The department will provide HD cameras (primarily the Panasonic AG-HMC 80P). You
need to purchase an SD card. Make sure you look for an SDHC speed class 6 or
above (4-32 GB). SDXC Memory Cards CANNOT be used with this camera. You
may need to have an external hard drive to save your project files in case you want to
edit on multiple editing suites. The editing suites are available at the following locations:
Telecommunication Lab: www.communication.utah.edu
J. Willard Marriott Library – Student Computing Labs:
www.sci.utah.edu/mmc_sci/index.html
Since the equipment and facility are shared by other classes, students should plan your
production and check with the Telecomm Lab. It is important that students save their
projects properly into their hard drives, otherwise, it can be impossible to edit on
multiple editing suites.
Grading Scale
100-94 A
86-84 B
76-74 C
66-64 D
93-90 A-
83-80 B-
73-70 C-
63-60 D-
89-87 B+
79-77 C+
69-67 D+
59-0 E
Course Evaluation:
Professional Attitude
Quizzes
Midterm
In class exercises
Production Assignments
5%
11%
10%
14%
60%
Professional Attitude (5%)
Students are expected to come to class on time. In the professional world, you are
expected to complete and turn in your work on the due dates, check and return
equipment on time and treat the Telecom Lab staff with professional manner.
Quizzes (11%)
There are quizzes online or at the end of the class. These are easy multiple choices,
short answer or fill in the blank questions.
Camera Exercise Assignment (5%)
Students are to shoot the following shots and camera movements in the following order:
1. CU with proper head room and nose room, 2. ECU then zoom out to a bust shot
3. Frame a two-person shot, zoom in to CU of one of the two. 4. WS of a person walking
with proper lead room 5. Pan the person in shot no. 4. 6. Start from an object of your
attention and pan either left or right to another object and leave it on for at least 5
seconds before you stop recording 7. Tilt down and leave it on for at least 5 seconds, tilt
up again 8. Frame a shot with a foreground and a background 9. Frame a shot with
deep depth of field 10. Frame a shot with a shallow depth of field. Editing is not
required. Mark the beginning of each shot with a slate. (Download iSlate app if you have
an iPhone/iPod/iPad)
Video Postcard total 10%
This 60-second project portrays a place in a variety of shots (CU, MS, WS, etc.) or with
different camera movements, with or without people. The place can be a park, a
playground, a church, an amusement park, an art gallery, among others.
Video Postcard Production (9%)
Composition 3%
White balance 1%
Sequences
2%
Transition
1%
Music
1%
End credit
1%
Paper:
evaluation (1%) Evaluate your performance, your team members and
mention the problems that you face during the production and how you solve them. This
must be submitted on canvas.
Continuity Project total 15%
This 3-minute project focuses on how you present your ideas with continuity without
dialogue. Each sequence must be shot with continuity in mind.
Continuity Project (9%)
Continuity sequence
4%
Shots and composition
3%
White balance
1%
Music
1%
Papers: 6%
-Storyboard 3% Present your storyboard in class.
-Shooting script or Breakdown 1% This is a shot list that you prepare
before the shooting day. Make enough copies for all your team members to
communicate the shooting plan for the day.
-Remote survey 1% List locations where you will shoot your project and
clear permission in advance. If there are limitations and challenges of each location,
state how you will get around those challenges. If not, state why these locations are
good for your production.
-Evaluation 1% Each team member must submit an individual evaluation
of one's role and contribution to the project and evaluate other team members. This
must be submitted on canvas.
Video Magazine Project total 15%
Video Magazine Project (10%)
Content
2%
B-rolls (variety & quality) 2%
Audio (clean & balanced) 2%
Editing (sequence)
2%
Lighting (well-lit)
2%
Papers (5%)
-Proposal (2%) Explore the possibility of a topic that appeals to college
students or people your age. It can be a student who starts his own brand of jeans and
selling them online or an owner of a fish spa, an avid snowboarder, among others. Set
up the interview with a meaningful background and present the subject with appropriate
b-rolls.
-Light plan 1% Draw a floor plan of the location where you are going to
shoot your projects. Indicate the spots where you are going to put lights and camera to
achieve what effect.
-Sound recording plan (1%) State your choice of microphone and audio
equipment and reasons why you decide to use this equipment.
-Evaluation (1%) Each team member must submit an individual evaluation
of one's role and contribution to the project and evaluate other team members. This
must be submitted on canvas.
Studio Production total 15%
Record an introduction to your video magazine project in the studio. You
should come up with the title of the show and a brief introduction of the video magazine
you will introduce. In this project, we will have to pool resource. Two groups must be
working together to complete this studio project. You might have one or two hosts of the
show and introduce two video magazine projects. Bring the graphic, or your video
magazine project. Everyone must be present on the shooting days.
Producing (8%)
Planning
2%
Aesthetic
2%
Managing the studio recording 1%
Working as a team
1%
Working as crew (6%)
Show up on all production days. 1% for each day you show up.
Evaluation (1%)
Extra Credit: It will be announced in class.
Production Agreement:
No real guns and firearms are allowed in filming your class projects.
Submission of Assignments
We submit all projects on YouTube. Username: comm3560u@gmail.com.
Password will be announced in class/on Canvas.
EMAIL POLICY
This is an upper level course. We will work as colleagues in a production
environment, and you are expected to address each other and the instructor in a
professional manner. This includes writing professional emails with an informative
subject line containing the class (COMM 3560) and a topic, a proper greeting including
the name of the person addressed (e.g. Hello Penchan), and a proper closing/signature
including your own full name (Thanks, Joe Smith). Spellcheck your emails! Emails that
do not include greetings/closings will not receive a response.
Disability Accommodation Policy
The University of Utah seeks to provide equal access to its programs, services,
and activities for people with disabilities. If you need accommodation in this class,
reasonable prior notice must be given to the Center for Disability Services, 162 Olpin
Union Bldg, 801-581-5020 (V/TDD), http://disability.utah.edu/. CDS will work with you
and the instructor to make arrangements for accommodations. All written information in
this course can be made available in an alternative format with prior notification to the
Center for Disability Services.
Content Accommodation
The University recognizes that students’ sincerely-held core beliefs might make it
difficult for students to fulfill some requirements of some courses or majors. It is the
student’s obligation to determine, before the last day to drop courses without penalty,
when course requirements conflict with the student’s sincerely-held core beliefs.
http://admin.utah.edu/facdev/pdf/accommodations-policy-background.pdf
Class Attendance
The University expects regular attendance at all class meetings. You are not
automatically dropped from your classes if you do not attend. You must officially
drop your classes by the published deadline in the academic calendar to avoid a "W" on
your record. Here are useful links:
Academic Integrity: http://www.regulations.utah.edu/academics/6-400.html
Attendance: http://registrar.utah.edu/handbook/attend.php
Withdrawals: http://registrar.utah.edu/handbook/withdrawal.php
Incompletes: http://registrar.utah.edu/handbook/incomplete.php
Fall 2014 calendar: http://registrar.utah.edu/academic-calendars/fall2014.php
If you have to be absent from class to participate in officially sanctioned
University activities (e.g. band, debate, student government, intercollegiate athletics),
religious obligations, email me.
Calendar
Date
Mon, Aug 25
Wed, Aug 27
Mon, Sept 1
Wed, Sept 3
Chapter
Lecture
Mon, Sept 8
Zettl 6
Wed, Sept 10
Zettl 5
Course Overview
Production Team
Labor Day: No class
Image Formation & Digital
Video, Video Camera
Looking through the
Viewfinder
Operating the Camera
Mon, Sept 15
Zettl 12
Video Recording
Zettl 2
Zettl 3, 4
Wed, Sept 17
Premiere Pro Practice
Mon, Sept 22
Premiere Pro/Edit your
postcard project
Wed, Sept 24
Mon, Sept 29
Zettl 13
Screening Video Postcard
Continuity Storytelling
Continuity Shooting in
Activities (points)
Online syllabus quiz (1%)
Online Discussion (1%)
Video Post Card Project
assigned, Group Quiz (3%)
Bring SD card
Camera Exercise (5%)
Bring SD card
Shooting in sequence (2%)
Bring hard disk & SD card
with footage (1%)
Bring hard disk & SD card
with your project’s footage to
edit in class
DUE: Video Postcard Project
(10%)
Continuity Project assigned
Merge groups
Continuity Shooting in
sequence
Editing continuity sequence
Wed, Oct 1
Mon, Oct 6
Continuity Storyboard
Workshop
Midterm Examination
Wed, Oct 8
(10%)
sequence (2%)
Edit the footage from Monday
(2%)
DUE: Storyboard (2%)
(due end of class)
DUE: on canvas, submit
files in pdf, doc or xls (3%)
Preproduction: Remote
survey, storyboard,
breakdown
Mon, Oct 13
Wed, Oct 15
Mon, Oct 20
Fall Break
Fall Break
Shooting for Continuity
Wed, Oct 22
Editing Day
Mon, Oct 27
Screening: Continuity
Wed, Oct 29
Zettl 8
Mon, Nov 3
Wed, Nov 5
Mon, Nov 10
Wed, Nov 12
Mon, Nov 17
Wed, Nov 19
Mon, Nov 24
Wed, Nov 26
Mon, Dec 1
Light, Color, and Lighting
Video Magazine Proposal
Presentation
Zettl 7
Zettl 14
Audio and Sound Control/
Interview Technique
Editing Audio
Screening Video Postcard
Projects/
Studio Production
Environment
Studio Production Demo
Studio Production Planning
Group 1
Studio Practice
Group 1
Live on Tape Studio
Production Group 1
Studio Production Planning
Online quiz on Continuity
(1%)
You must have footage to
work in class. (2%)
DUE: Continuity Project
(15%)
Video Magazine Project
assigned
Set up three point lighting
(2%)
DUE: Video Magazine
Proposal (2%)
In class practice: three point
lighting for Interview set up
(2%)
Group quiz (3%)
DUE: Video Magazine Project
Sign up for positions
Practice (2%)
Online quiz studio production
(1%)
In class participation (1%)
In class participation (1%)
In class participation (1%)
In class participation (1%)
Wed, Dec 3
Mon, Dec 8
Wed, Dec 10
for Group 2
Studio Practice
Group 2
Live on Tape Studio
Production Group 2
Final Presentation
In class participation (1%)
In class participation (1%)