CDS2601 · Digital audio/video

Overview

This unit introduces you to digital audio and video production. It explores the principles of digital audio visual design and the uses industry-standard software applications to produce media in a variety of genres. You are introduced to scripting, storyboarding, film and narrative conventions common to cinema. In order to explore audio recording, video capture and nonlinear editing, you are introduced to the tools and features of video cameras and editing software. Demonstrations and lectures are given on planning and collaborative management, types of media sources and output considerations associated with digital audio/video production.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

100% in-semester assessment

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Understand design conventions and narrative concepts common to cinema;
2. Identify tools and features of digital video cameras and digital audio and video software;
3. Utilise script and storyboard to illustrate concepts;
4. Plan and manage an audio recording session;
5. Plan and manage a video capture session;
6. Acquire footage, incorporate graphics and manage a variety of media sources into a video sequence;
7. Explore nonlinear editing techniques, including editing effects, transition and wipes;
8. Collaboratively contribute to planning and management of a digital audio/video production;
9. Address appropriate output considerations for the assembly and preparation a digital video/audio production.

Workload

12 hours per week including 3 contact hours plus 9 hours of independent study.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.