PHOT 336 - Visual Journalism III

Description
This advanced level course rounds out the visual journalists’ skill set, and focuses on long form visual journalism. The course takes a video documentary approach to visual storytelling, but still includes all aspects of photojournalism as it pertains to still photography and videography. The course explores 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

Time Guidelines
The standard instructional time for this course is 75 hours.

Prerequisites

PHOT 256

Equivalents
JOUR 305