PHOT 336 - Visual Journalism III

Course Description:
This advanced level course will round out the visual journalists’ skills sets, and focuses on long form visual storytelling in today’s news media. The course takes a documentary-style approach to visual storytelling, and includes all aspects of photojournalism as it pertains to still photography, and videography, and how these two mediums are combined with other media to tell a story. Proper planning, interviewing techniques, camera handling, audio acquisition, video editing and sequencing will be covered in depth, with the final assignment to encompass all of the skill sets discussed in this course. Today’s photojournalist must balance the necessity of gathering still images, text, audio and video for multiple platforms. Learning how to achieve this balance will be a major focus of this course.

3 Credits

Prerequisite(s):

PHOT 256