JRN 259 News Video Production & Editing

This is very much a hands-on, workshop-type course. Students will practice scripting, shooting and editing typical hard news and feature stories using video, audio, graphics and text. Then producing their stories across all media platforms. Students with some journalism background will polish more advanced skills needed for entry level jobs; those with only a social media familiarity with shooting, writing and editing will gain basic professional skills. Covered during the course: shooting professionally with phones and cameras, video editing on professional software, ethical, factual reporting and shooting, interviewing, script writing, performance skills.

Students will focus immediately on good shooting and basic editing techniques, adding in scripting, interviewing, choosing "sound bites" and more advanced video editing. Along the way - students will become "street reporters" - sampling the techniques used by all reporters and producers to tell stories and engage audiences. Students will edit their stories on Black Magic Design's Resolve 15 - a new and very hot professional video editing platform. Avid and Premier Pro will also be touched upon - so students will understand and use the editing techniques common to all editing platforms. The ability to tell and produce a good news story is one used in professional social media, marketing and advertising jobs as well as journalism. Professional video editors are also in great demand in news and documentary work as well as in advertising.