Film and Video Arts Learning Goals

Students who major in film and video arts can expect to achieve the following learning goals:

Production
- Express appreciation of the aesthetic and artistic value of both the still and moving image and engage in critical thinking and discourse through lectures and critiques
- Demonstrate proficiency in camera use and editing techniques
- Demonstrate knowledge and proficiency in camera use and editing techniques such as exposure and formal composition
- Demonstrate sound techniques and editing
Upper Level Production
- Demonstrate proficiency in digital editing software programs
- Demonstrate proficiency with lighting techniques and editing techniques
- Critical thinking and an ability to engage in the discourse of photography, digital video, digital filmmaking, and motion graphic projects to gauge proficiency and improvement
- Organize and produce a film
Research Skills
- Demonstrate basic research skills to write a paper and literacy in the discipline of film and video
Treatments and Storyboard
- Basic skills to write a treatment for a film or video
- Basic skills to create a storyboard for a film or video
Critical Discourse and Critical Thinking
- Critical thinking and defense of projects and thesis in a written, oral, and visual format
- Organize a paper, formulate and sustain an argument related to film theory