Computer Graphics Technology - CGT 168

Course Description

This course provides the student a working knowledge of storyboarding. It integrates creative expressions, emotional impressions and production processes into a cohesive conclusion. It provides the student an opportunity to expand a creative understanding of audio, cinematography, lighting and staging. Storyboarding is a basic need for the student pursuing careers in multimedia, interactive and performance arts.

Prerequisites

(A requirement that must be completed before taking this course.)

Course Competencies

Upon successful completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• Demonstrate working knowledge of basic pre-production and production skills.
• Integrate creative and technically superior media into a linear and nonlinear production method.
• Provide clearly defined pre-production tasks required for the development of all media.
• Analyze the emotional needs and basic technical requirements of set lighting and pre-production requirements.
• Demonstrate pre-production storyboarding skills relating to camera movement and placement plus shot list development.
• Establish the pre-production blocking using the storyboard process.
• Determine the best use of audio based on the psychological implications of its use and Foley techniques.
• Implement the transfer of storyboard frames into an animatic.
• Integrate the dynamic qualities of lighting, film production, theater and audio into a clearly defined story.
• Coordinate the pre--production requirements required to integrate - emotional, informational and instructional cross-disciplinary media.

Course Schedule