Technical operations are covered, including ingest, output, and media management, edit bay procedures, protocol, and best practices. Introductory and intermediate Avid Media Composer tools and techniques are introduced relating to editing, audio mixing, audio effects, visual effects, color correction, and digital file delivery. The tools, techniques, and concepts of the editor’s craft are presented through lecture, demonstration, and hands-on exercises. Emphasis will also be placed on understanding industry working conditions, employer expectations, as well as the student’s expectations, attitude, and professionalism. The Avid curriculum will be supplemented with elemental post-production information including a historical overview of the editing process and tools current processes, procedures, and terminology project organization, digital file codecs, audio sample rate, introduction to concepts and tools of color grading, and introductory troubleshooting. This course will implement Avid’s MC101 and MC110 curriculum and students who successfully pass Avid’s two certification exams will earn the credential of “Avid Certified User” in Media Composer, recognized worldwide as an industry standard for assistant editors in feature film and broadcast television. This course is the pre-requisite for ALL GFA courses.įundamentals of Editing with Avid Media Composer 100 introduces students to post-production utilizing Avid’s video editing software. In addition, students will learn skills related to networking and self-marketing.
Students will also learn how the various film crafts relate to one another on a working set, as well as how and why they all must operate in sync.
Students will learn: film production organizational structure, job descriptions and duties in various film craft areas, names, uses and protocols related to various pieces of professional on-set film equipment.
In addition to the use of topical lectures, PowerPoint presentations, videos and hand-outs, the course will include demonstrations of equipment and set operations as well as hands-on learning experiences. Introduction to On-Set Film Production is the first of an 18-credit hour certification program which will provide an introduction to the skills used in on-set film production, including all forms of narrative media which utilize film-industry standard organizational structure, professional equipment and on-set procedures.