CDAE 2440 A (CRN: 95375)
Cmty Dev & Apld Econ: CL:Community Media Production (A)
3 credit hours
About CDAE 2440 A
A hands-on media-based class in which students work collaboratively, producing one long-form documentary or many short-form videos about a local community member, issue, or campaign. Students produce media for entertainment, social media, and informational purposes and learn what community media is and how it can develop community. Prerequisite: CDAE 1240.
Notes
Open to Degree and PACE students
Section URL
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Section Description
How can COMMUNITY MEDIA PRODUCTION help us develop community? By examining the history of Public Access Television, Local Community Media Access, and user generated content, including Social Media platforms (youtube, instagram etc), how do we build community through media? This class examines the question, Does what we watch shape our cultural identity? And if so, what responsibility do we as users and makers have in contributing to our cultural identity?
Community Media is a hands-on media and interview based class seeking independently driven students to work collaboratively with their instructor to produce one long form documentary or many short form videos about the greater Burlington community. Students will be creating their own projects or videos and will contribute to CCTV: The Center for Media and Democracy, Burlington’s local community media access station.
In the Spring of 2025, students will either design their own community media projects or have the opportunity to work on a feature length documentary that the instructor has been producing for five years - about CCTV, The Center For Media and Democracy, called Burlington This is You! They can also produce media for The Center For Media and Democracy. Students will engage with community partners to tell local stories and design individual projects including research, interviews, graphic and website design, stop motion animation, as well as many other skill sets. The class will culminate in a community screening.
Section Expectation
As a civic learning class, students will be conducting site visits to local community partners. The class will include watching and reading to understand the history of Public Access Television and Community Media, as well as the form of documentary and applying this knowledge to their individual projects. Other community Partners will include CCTV, local community access media. Students can individually design their own projects. Learned skills will include:
Engage with the history of Public Access Media by examining different screenings and readings
Collaborate with Local Community Partners by co-producing media
Learn research and Archival Skills, including digitizing analog mediums by working with community partners
Work alongside a Professional Filmmaker to learn about producing long form documentaries through his work on Parades and Protests: Community Media as Activism
Pitching Projects, Proposal Writing and Design, and Budgeting through class presentations
Visual Communication skills including on camera interviews, shooting techniques, minimal resource filmmaking, timelapse photography and stop motion animation
Photoshop design, editing in Adobe Premiere, animating in Adobe After Effects
Site Visits, Individual project design, and hosting a Community Screening.
Evaluation
Classroom time will be a mix of lecture, discussion and labs. Lectures will focus on documentary forms including defining social media, community media and public broadcasting, while discussions will focus on screenings and analysis. Labs will be technical training. Outside of class students will be responsible for watching screenings and completing exercises that scaffold into assignments.
Each week, the professor will assign EXERCISES that will scaffold into ASSIGNMENTS. On the fifth week, the EXERCISES will scaffold into an ASSIGNMENT. This will happen every five weeks in three sections. Students will also be responsible for weekly production notes to be submitted with exercises/assignments and tracking their hours in a spreadsheet provided by the instructor. By doing this, students will also learn how to bill their time as a media professional and will be responsible for creating mock invoices.
Students will be working to learn Adobe Suite Applications and will be asked to use the Media Lab of Morrill Hall 005 lab if they do not own their own computer and editing software. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY!!! Labs will be spent in the Media Lab editing and certain weeks students will be tasked with only completing field work and completing online work, such as uploading exercises or assignments. If students do not own their own equipment, they can borrow from the MultiMedia Services in the library. Students can use the computer lab to edit with Adobe Premiere or their own devices. The class will be taught with a focus on Adobe Premiere.
Students will be evaluated on attendance, weekly reflections and exercises, three assignments at the end of each section, work outside of class in the community, and their contribution to the community screening at the end of the semester. For breakdown, see grading criteria and policy. They will be evaluated on their individual levels and on completion of exercises/assignments according to their experience. In this sense, the class embodies asynchronous learning.
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