College of the Redwoods
CURRICULUM PROPOSAL
1. Division/Center
2. Program and Course Number
3. Course Title
4.
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Advanced Film Style Field Television Production_
X New (If new, are you deleting a course?) Course to be deleted:_________________
_____ Change (Indicate current status and proposed changes on "Summary of Curriculum Changes" form)
_____ Check here if catalog description is being changed.
_____ Delete (Reason for deletion: ____________________________________________________)
5. Of what approved program is this course a part? __Radio/Television Broadcasting_________
(see list of approved programs and TOPS Codes)TOPS Code 0603.00
Is the course a "required course"?__No__ an "additional requirement"?_No__ (In a certificate or degree program)
6. Provide evidence that this course/revision is needed (purpose of proposal).
Today’s marketplace in the electronic mass communication field is extremely hands-on oriented in its hiring practices.
It is not enough for the potential job seeker to know how to use production equipment; he or she must be capable of
exhibiting a marketable proficiency with the equipment. This requires a great deal of time and practice. The presentation
of video and film is an art form, and those institutions and production houses hiring today are looking for individuals
whose resume tapes reflect an on-air quality and professionalism. This is a field that technologically is constantly
expanding and advancing into new applications. A second semester allows the additional application of concepts and
practice for a more professional/advanced skill level. This translates into a level of artistic proficiency that will greatly
advance our students’ marketability in the mass media market.
Film-style productions, unlike studio and on-line productions, use a single camera on location or in the field and
demand far greater attention to organizational and aesthetic considerations in all three stages of production.
Additional/extended exposure to these concerns is a must if students are to develop the necessary skill level to market
themselves.
Students desiring to enter this ever-expanding communications field must be well-versed and attentive to the
collaborative structure of integrating ideas with creative problem solving – an advanced skill level which can only be
achieved through extended practice.
7. Describe the students who will enroll (include estimated number).
Students seeking to advanced their skill level as a serious vocational priority in the film/television industry. (30)
8. Parallel courses--what is the relation of this course to existing courses
(modify/overlap/replace)?
RT 3 - Introduction to Film Style Field Television Production would be a prerequisite to this advanced course.
However, this course would differ in that it would be lab-only oriented for the purpose of advancing technique and skill
level.
9. Capital Outlay: Describe the equipment for this class.
Presently have: N/A Need to acquire: (include cost) Lowel Location Light Kit, Windscreen, for microphone and
additional video tapes: approximately $500.00
10. Staffing implications (Associate or Full-time faculty)
Associate or Full-time
Instructional Aide required? How many hours per week? ___No_________________________
11. Learning Resource Implications (new courses only)
Does the college have adequate learning resources to support the proposed course, or can the necessary resources be
acquired within the existing budget?
Yes ___X___ No ________
Please attach the "Learning Resource Supplement" to the Course Proposal form.
12. Facility Implications: (Unless otherwise stated, it is assumed this course can be offered
District-wide.)
Where Scheduled? Del Norte_When Scheduled? Semester(s) Fall or Spring____Day __X___ Evening ___X__
13. Special Fees None
14. Special Student Expenses (i.e., equipment, clothing, tools, etc.): None
15. Submitted by Tom P. Walradt
Tel. Ext. 2300
Date __6/18/03___
16. Submitting Dean/Campus V.P. _
______________________
Date _________________
17. Submitting Dept Chair (or equivalent) ________________________________ Date _________________
Approved by Curriculum Committee
9/12/03
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College of the Redwoods
COURSE OUTLINE
DATE __6/18/03__
PROGRAM AND COURSE NUMBER:
RT 4
FORMER NUMBER (If previously offered) ______________
COURSE TITLE
Advanced Film Style Field Television Production
I. CATALOG AND OUTLINE
1. CATALOG DESCRIPTION:
An advanced practice of the technical and aesthetic aspects of field production. Students will learn basic, single-camera
film-style production techniques including storyboarding, shot chart development, field lighting, sound capture, postediting considerations, problem-solving, and associated terminologies.
Note: This course is repeatable to a maximum of 2 enrollments.
2. COURSE OUTLINE:
% of Classroom Hours Spent on Each Topic
Screenplay treatment
Scouting techniques and concerns
The transfer of screenplay to storyboard and initial editing process
Shot chart assemblage and scheduling
Cast and crew considerations and auditions
5%
The rehearsal process
Advanced camera techniques
Shooting the production
Advanced post-editing process considerations and techniques
5%
10%
20%
10%
5%
10%
25%
10%
II. PREREQUISITES
Prerequisite?
No
Yes
Corequisite?
No
X
Recommended Preparation?
No
X
RT 3_______
(course)
Yes _____________________
(course)
Yes _____________________
(course)
Rationale for Prerequisite, Corequisite, Recommended Preparation__This is an advanced course in television
production. Non-exposure to introductory level material would render a student totally unprepared for this course.
The terminologies and techniques incorporated in film style field television production is akin to a foreign language
to those who have not received introductory level exposure.
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III. OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENTS
1. COURSE OUTCOMES/OBJECTIVES:
List the primary instructional objectives of the class. Formulate some of them in terms of specific measurable
student accomplishments, e.g., specific knowledge and/or skills to be attained as a result of completing this course.
For degree-applicable courses, include objectives in the area of "critical thinking." Upon successful completion of
this course, the students will be able to:
1. Initiate and direct the entire production chain process of scripting, storyboarding, location scouting, shot
chart assembling and scheduling, auditioning and rehearsing cast and crew, shooting the production, and
post editing when putting together a single-camera film-style television narrative as practiced in
classroom exercises, individual video productions, homework assignments, quizzes, and tests
2. Routinely use basic film and television terminologies for camera usage, lighting equipment, audio
capture, directorial commands, and post-production insert and assemble editing as practiced in classroom
exercises, homework assignments, quizzes, and tests
3. Trouble-shoot camera, audio and lighting equipment problems inherent in single-camera field
productions as practiced in classroom exercises and individual video productions.
4. Initiate the integration of differing production scenario ideas of fellow students during all three phases of
production as practiced in classroom exercises, homework assignments, quizzes, and tests.
5. Define all roles (director, screenwriter, camera operator, sound man, grip, gaffer, talent, and post-editor)
as to how they inter-relate in the collaborative process of television production as practiced in classroom
exercises and incorporated in take home video projects.
6. Assemble a cohesive cast and crew through the process of producing individual classroom videos.
7. Justify appropriate styles and techniques incorporated in the rehearsal process as practiced in classroom
exercises and individual video projects.
8. Exhibit appropriate problem-solving skills within the framework of the collaborative creative process
during all three phases of production as demonstrated in classroom exercises and individual video
productions.
9. Identify post-editing techniques of transitions, superimpositions, titling, voice-over, and foley usage as
practiced in classroom exercises, and individual video projects.
2. COLLEGE LEVEL CRITICAL THINKING TASKS/ASSIGNMENTS:
Degree applicable courses must include critical thinking tasks/assignments. This section need not be completed for
non-credit courses. Describe how the course requires students to independently analyze, synthesize, explain, assess,
anticipate and/or define problems, formulate and assess solutions, apply principles to new situations, etc.
1. Students are required to formulate narrative possibilities within restricted time frames, and synthesize
them into coherent spatial, temporal, graphic, and rhythmic televised field productions.
2. Students are required to establish, assess, and determine strategies and goals for auditioning, assembling,
and maintaining an effective collaborative cast and crew.
3. Students are required to critique film and video clips produced by themselves, their fellow classmates,
and professional auteurs.
4. Students will frequently discover and have to develop on-the-spot strategies for unexpected equipment
failures, weather conditions, human frailties, and creative differences that accompany all productions.
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3. ASSESSMENT
Degree applicable courses must have a minimum of one response in category A, B, or C. If category A is not
checked, the department must explain why substantial writing assignments are an inappropriate basis for at least part
of the grade.
A. This course requires a minimum of two substantial (500 words each) written assignments which demonstrate
standard English usage (grammar, punctuation, and vocabulary) and proper paragraph and essay development. In
grading these assignments, instructors shall use, whenever possible, the English Department’s rubric for grading the
ENGL 150 exit essay. Substantial writing assignments, including:
__ essay exam(s)
__ term or other paper(s)
___ laboratory report(s)
__ written homework
__ reading report(s)
_X other (specify) Treatment and short screenplay
If the course is degree applicable, substantial writing assignments in this course are inappropriate because:
__ The course is primarily computational in nature.
__The course primarily involves skill demonstrations or problem solving.
__ Other rationale (explain) __________________________________
B.
__
__
__
Computational or Non-computational problem-solving demonstrations, including:
exam(s)
__ quizzes
X homework problems
laboratory report(s)
X field work
other (specify) _________________________________________
C.
Skill demonstrations, including:
X class performance(s)
X field work
__ other (specify) ______________________________________
__ performance exam(s)
D. Objective examinations, including:
X multiple choice
__ true/false
X matching items
__ completion
__ other (specify) ________________________________________
E.
Other (specify) Class participation
NOTE: A course grade may not be based solely on attendance.
IV. TEXTS AND MATERIALS
APPROPRIATE TEXTS AND MATERIALS:
(Indicate textbooks that may be required or recommended, including alternate texts that may be used.)
Text(s)
Title: Single-Camera Video production
X
Required
Edition: Second
______
Alternate
Author: Robert Musburger
______ Recommended
Publisher: Focal Press
Date Published: January 1999
(Additional required, alternate, or recommended texts should be listed on a separate sheet and attached.)
For degree applicable courses the adopted texts have been certified to be college-level:
___X___ Yes. Basis for determination:
___X___ is used by two or more four-year colleges or universities (certified by the Division Dean or Center
Dean)
Texas A&M, Texas
Cal State Hayward, California
OR
______ has been certified by the LAC as being of college level using the Coleman and Dale-Chall
Readability Index Scale.
______ No
Request for Exception Attached.
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REQUIRED READING, WRITING, AND OTHER OUTSIDE OF CLASS ASSIGNMENTS:
Over a 16-week presentation of the course, 3+ hours per week are required for each unit of credit. ALL Degree
Applicable Credit classes must treat subject matter with a scope and intensity which require the student to study outside
of class. Two hours of independent work done out of class are required for each hour of lecture. Lab and activity classes
must also require some outside of class work. Outside of the regular class time the students in this class do the following:
X Study
X Answer questions
X Skill practice
X Required reading
X Problem solving activity or exercise
X__Written work (essays/compositions/report/analysis/research)
X Journal (reaction and evaluation of class, done on a continuing basis throughout the semester)
X__ Observation of or participation in an activity related to course content (e.g., play, museum, concert,
debate, meeting, etc.)
X Other (specify) Storyboarding, rehearsing, video shooting and editing.
V. TECHNICAL INFORMATION
1. Contact Hours: (1 unit lec = 18 hrs, 1 unit lab = 54 hours)
Lecture: ______ TOTAL HOURS
Lab:
_162___ TOTAL HOURS
5. Recommended Maximum Class Size 30
6. Transferability X
CSU X UC
List two UC/CSU campuses with similar courses
(include course #s) U.C.L.A. 175A-175B.
Undergraduate Film Production.
UC Santa Cruz 20P. Introduction to Production
Technique.
UC Riverside FVC OO4 Introduction to Video Art
__________________________________________________
Articulation with UC requested __
7. Grading Standard
______Letter Grade Only
______CR/NC Only
X Grade-CR/NC Option
Grade-CR/NC Option Criteria:
______Introductory
X 1st course in sequence
______Exploratory
(Use Request for Exception sheet to justify
more-than-minimum required hours.)
Lecture Units _____
Lab Units 3.0
or
Variable Unit Range ______
2. TLUs __9.0__ (12 hr lec or 18 hr lab = 1 TLU)
3.
Does course fulfill a General Education
requirement? (For existing courses only;
for new courses, use GE Application Form)
______Yes
X No
If yes, in what G.E. area?
AA/AS Area ________
CSU/GE Area ________
IGETC Area _________
8. Is course repeatable X
Yes ______ No
If so, repeatable to a maximum of:
2 Total Enrollments
6 Total Units
(Use Request for Exception sheet to justify repeatability.)
4. Method of Instruction:
_____ Lecture
__X__ Lab
Lecture/Lab
_____ Independent Study
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Course Classification __I____
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REQUEST FOR EXCEPTION
This form may be used to provide justification for
1.
2.
3.
making a course repeatable
requiring more than the minimum number of contact hours
utilizing non-college level texts for degree applicable course
To request an exception, provide the following information:
_________ RT 4_______________________
Department and Course No
._________ Film Style Field Television Production __
Course Title
NATURE OF THE EXCEPTION REQUESTED AND RATIONALE:
1.
making a course repeatable
Today’s marketplace in the electronic mass communication field is extremely hands-on oriented in its hiring
practices. It is not enough for the potential job seeker to know how to use production equipment; he or she must be
capable of exhibiting a marketable proficiency with the equipment. This requires a great deal of time and practice.
The presentation of video and film is an art form and those institutions and production houses hiring today are
looking for individuals whose resume tape reflects an exposure to such nuances that are considered of on-air quality
and professionalism. This is a field that technologically is constantly expanding and advancing into new
applications. A second semester allows the additional application of concepts and practice for a more
professional/advanced skill level.
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