2023-2024 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    Dec 03, 2024  
2023-2024 Pierce College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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DRMA 166 Digital Movie Making: Short Form (5 credits)



Distribution Area Fulfilled General Transfer Elective
Formerly THTR 166

Course Description
This class focuses on making short-form movies for social media platforms (such as Instagram Stories, YouTube Shorts, and TikToks). Storytelling, filming, editing, and presentation in digital environments will be covered.

Course Content
A. Storytelling for digital environments
B. Pre-production and script writing
C. Production and filming
D. Post-production and editing
E. Primary and secondary audience awareness
F. Time/cost/space management

Student Outcomes
 

  1. Identify and explain how sociocultural and technological factors influence contemporary video production.
  2. Create a storyboard and schedule for a digital film for projects under 5 minutes.
  3. Create a digital video script that tells the story of a culture or affinity group within time, cost, and space restrictions.
  4. Effectively edit a digital film with color correction and effects that demonstrates an awareness and sensitivity to primary and secondary audiences
  5. Produce a digital video that is shared with the class, with the filming subject(s), and to audience appropriate digital platforms.


Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.

Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to craft and exchange ideas and information in a variety of situations, in response to audience, context, purpose, and motivation.

Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

Potential Methods
1. Essays: out-of-class assignments or essay exams
2. Tests: short answer, matching, multiple choice.
3. Projects: group presentations, individual presentations, multimedia productions, and performances.
4. Observation: teacher evaluation in class, teacher conference, peer evaluation, or self-evaluation



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