This course teaches image manipulation using the industry leading Adobe Photoshop software. Projects will be designed through image compositing, color correction, and file set-up and output. This course uses Macintosh computers; previous Macintosh experience will be helpful.?

This course acquaints the student with the tools and techniques of audio production and video post-production; sound pickup, microphone choice, amplification, recording, editing, and audio for audio-visual presentations. Students will evaluate quality level of voice recordings, music, and ambience. Students will develop the vocabulary and techniques necessary for keyframe editing and editing video footage into finished video documents. Learners will have the opportunity to develop non-linear editing techniques through hands-on project applications while honing skills to organize editing projects, manipulate raw footage and graphic elements and assemble them into narrative sequences.