TSC1680 - Editing Principles & Storytelling

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Editing Principles & Storytelling introduces learners to the narrative, continuity, pacing, emotional, and platform-specific decisions through which editing shapes visual stories. Four connected topics anchor the course: Foundations of Storytelling in Editing; Visual Continuity and Rhythm; Emotional Pacing and Viewer Psychology; and Genre, Audience, and Platform Adaptation. This progression helps students connect foundational concepts, professional methods, analytical judgment, and applied decision-making in realistic film, advertising, documentary, and digital-video environments.

Scenario-based exercises and a final applied task move the material from explanation to workplace use. Throughout the course, students practice structuring narratives, maintaining spatial and temporal continuity, shaping rhythm and emotion, applying motivated cuts, and adapting edits to audience and platform, producing an edited sequence or analytical report that documents pacing, rhythm, continuity, emotional structure, and platform choices that can be discussed in exam-style questions and transferred to professional assignments.

KEY POINTS

  1. Foundations of Storytelling in Editing: Establishes the terminology, principles, and professional context needed to understand the topic’s significance and its connection to sound decisions.
  2. Visual Continuity and Rhythm: Examines practical workflows, tools, and standards that support consistent, efficient, and defensible execution.
  3. Emotional Pacing and Viewer Psychology: Develops the ability to recognize risks or constraints, compare alternatives, and select appropriate controls, methods, or responses.
  4. Genre, Audience, and Platform Adaptation: Connects course knowledge to planning, documentation, measurement, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  5. Applied Practice: Uses scenarios and practical exercises to produce an edited sequence or analytical report that documents pacing, rhythm, continuity, emotional structure, and platform choices and to justify decisions with evidence and accepted professional practice.
  6. Professional Standards and Readiness: Reinforces narrative clarity, continuity, audience awareness, intentional pacing, technical suitability, and evidence-based editorial judgment for exam-style review and workplace application.

CORE LEARNING OUTCOMES

  1. Foundational Knowledge: Explain the principles, purpose, and professional significance of Topic 1, “Foundations of Storytelling in Editing,” within the narrative, continuity, pacing, emotional, and platform-specific decisions through which editing shapes visual stories.
  2. Methods and Tools: Apply structured methods, appropriate tools, and accepted practices to the work addressed in Topic 2, “Visual Continuity and Rhythm.”
  3. Analysis and Judgment: Analyze the conditions presented in Topic 3, “Emotional Pacing and Viewer Psychology”; identify significant risks or opportunities; and select a defensible response.
  4. Solution Development: Develop and justify a practical approach to Topic 4, “Genre, Audience, and Platform Adaptation.”
  5. Applied Deliverable: Produce an edited sequence or analytical report that documents pacing, rhythm, continuity, emotional structure, and platform choices that demonstrates accurate, ethical, and well-documented application of course concepts.
  6. Professional Communication: Communicate findings and recommendations using terminology, documentation standards, and evidence appropriate to film, advertising, documentary, and digital-video environments.
TSC1685 - Footage Management & Organization

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Footage Management & Organization introduces learners to the organization, metadata, backup, archiving, security, and collaborative control of video-production assets. Four connected topics anchor the course: Understanding File Organization and Naming Conventions; Metadata, Logging, and Asset Tagging; Backup, Archiving, and Data Security; and Collaboration and Shared Storage Systems. This progression helps students connect foundational concepts, professional methods, analytical judgment, and applied decision-making in realistic solo and team-based post-production environments.

Scenario-based exercises and a final applied task move the material from explanation to workplace use. Throughout the course, students practice designing folder hierarchies, naming and tagging assets, maintaining metadata, implementing 3-2-1 backups, controlling versions, and collaborating through shared storage, producing a footage-management plan covering file structure, naming, metadata, backup schedules, security, version control, and team procedures that can be discussed in exam-style questions and transferred to professional assignments.

KEY POINTS

  1. Understanding File Organization and Naming Conventions: Establishes the terminology, principles, and professional context needed to understand the topic’s significance and its connection to sound decisions.
  2. Metadata, Logging, and Asset Tagging: Examines practical workflows, tools, and standards that support consistent, efficient, and defensible execution.
  3. Backup, Archiving, and Data Security: Develops the ability to recognize risks or constraints, compare alternatives, and select appropriate controls, methods, or responses.
  4. Collaboration and Shared Storage Systems: Connects course knowledge to planning, documentation, measurement, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  5. Applied Practice: Uses scenarios and practical exercises to produce a footage-management plan covering file structure, naming, metadata, backup schedules, security, version control, and team procedures and to justify decisions with evidence and accepted professional practice.
  6. Professional Standards and Readiness: Reinforces data integrity, traceability, secure access, reliable backup, version control, collaborative consistency, and long-term reuse for exam-style review and workplace application.

CORE LEARNING OUTCOMES

  1. Foundational Knowledge: Explain the principles, purpose, and professional significance of Topic 1, “Understanding File Organization and Naming Conventions,” within the organization, metadata, backup, archiving, security, and collaborative control of video-production assets.
  2. Methods and Tools: Apply structured methods, appropriate tools, and accepted practices to the work addressed in Topic 2, “Metadata, Logging, and Asset Tagging.”
  3. Analysis and Judgment: Analyze the conditions presented in Topic 3, “Backup, Archiving, and Data Security”; identify significant risks or opportunities; and select a defensible response.
  4. Solution Development: Develop and justify a practical approach to Topic 4, “Collaboration and Shared Storage Systems.”
  5. Applied Deliverable: Produce a footage-management plan covering file structure, naming, metadata, backup schedules, security, version control, and team procedures that demonstrates accurate, ethical, and well-documented application of course concepts.
  6. Professional Communication: Communicate findings and recommendations using terminology, documentation standards, and evidence appropriate to solo and team-based post-production environments.
TSC1690 - Timeline Editing & Transitions

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Timeline Editing & Transitions introduces learners to the precise organization, trimming, transition design, layering, and multi-camera control of nonlinear editing timelines. Four connected topics anchor the course: Understanding the Timeline Interface; Trimming and Fine-Tuning Edits; Using Transitions Creatively; and Layering, Effects, and Multi-Camera Editing. This progression helps students connect foundational concepts, professional methods, analytical judgment, and applied decision-making in realistic professional video-post-production environments.

Scenario-based exercises and a final applied task move the material from explanation to workplace use. Throughout the course, students practice organizing tracks, applying ripple, roll, slip, and slide edits, selecting motivated transitions, synchronizing cameras, managing layers, and refining frame-level timing, producing a 60-second multi-camera edit with documented trimming methods, an intentional transition, and a workflow explanation that can be discussed in exam-style questions and transferred to professional assignments.

KEY POINTS

  1. Understanding the Timeline Interface: Establishes the terminology, principles, and professional context needed to understand the topic’s significance and its connection to sound decisions.
  2. Trimming and Fine-Tuning Edits: Examines practical workflows, tools, and standards that support consistent, efficient, and defensible execution.
  3. Using Transitions Creatively: Develops the ability to recognize risks or constraints, compare alternatives, and select appropriate controls, methods, or responses.
  4. Layering, Effects, and Multi-Camera Editing: Connects course knowledge to planning, documentation, measurement, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  5. Applied Practice: Uses scenarios and practical exercises to produce a 60-second multi-camera edit with documented trimming methods, an intentional transition, and a workflow explanation and to justify decisions with evidence and accepted professional practice.
  6. Professional Standards and Readiness: Reinforces timeline organization, precise timing, continuity, restrained transition use, sync accuracy, and efficient nondestructive workflow for exam-style review and workplace application.

CORE LEARNING OUTCOMES

  1. Foundational Knowledge: Explain the principles, purpose, and professional significance of Topic 1, “Understanding the Timeline Interface,” within the precise organization, trimming, transition design, layering, and multi-camera control of nonlinear editing timelines.
  2. Methods and Tools: Apply structured methods, appropriate tools, and accepted practices to the work addressed in Topic 2, “Trimming and Fine-Tuning Edits.”
  3. Analysis and Judgment: Analyze the conditions presented in Topic 3, “Using Transitions Creatively”; identify significant risks or opportunities; and select a defensible response.
  4. Solution Development: Develop and justify a practical approach to Topic 4, “Layering, Effects, and Multi-Camera Editing.”
  5. Applied Deliverable: Produce a 60-second multi-camera edit with documented trimming methods, an intentional transition, and a workflow explanation that demonstrates accurate, ethical, and well-documented application of course concepts.
  6. Professional Communication: Communicate findings and recommendations using terminology, documentation standards, and evidence appropriate to professional video-post-production environments.
TSC1695 - Audio Basics for Editors

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Audio Basics for Editors introduces learners to the storytelling, loudness, synchronization, mixing, equalization, and mastering practices needed for professional video audio. Four connected topics anchor the course: The Role of Audio in Visual Storytelling; Audio Levels, Loudness, and Compliance Standards; Syncing Audio and Video; and Mixing, Equalization, and Mastering. This progression helps students connect foundational concepts, professional methods, analytical judgment, and applied decision-making in realistic broadcast, streaming, and digital-video environments.

Scenario-based exercises and a final applied task move the material from explanation to workplace use. Throughout the course, students practice balancing dialogue, music, effects, and ambience, measuring LUFS and peaks, synchronizing sources, applying EQ and compression, and mastering across playback systems, producing an audio analysis and improvement plan addressing loudness, synchronization, dialogue clarity, music and effects balance, and delivery compliance that can be discussed in exam-style questions and transferred to professional assignments.

KEY POINTS

  1. The Role of Audio in Visual Storytelling: Establishes the terminology, principles, and professional context needed to understand the topic’s significance and its connection to sound decisions.
  2. Audio Levels, Loudness, and Compliance Standards: Examines practical workflows, tools, and standards that support consistent, efficient, and defensible execution.
  3. Syncing Audio and Video: Develops the ability to recognize risks or constraints, compare alternatives, and select appropriate controls, methods, or responses.
  4. Mixing, Equalization, and Mastering: Connects course knowledge to planning, documentation, measurement, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
  5. Applied Practice: Uses scenarios and practical exercises to produce an audio analysis and improvement plan addressing loudness, synchronization, dialogue clarity, music and effects balance, and delivery compliance and to justify decisions with evidence and accepted professional practice.
  6. Professional Standards and Readiness: Reinforces LUFS and peak control, CALM Act awareness, sync accuracy, clean signal practice, consistent playback, and documented quality checks for exam-style review and workplace application.

CORE LEARNING OUTCOMES

  1. Foundational Knowledge: Explain the principles, purpose, and professional significance of Topic 1, “The Role of Audio in Visual Storytelling,” within the storytelling, loudness, synchronization, mixing, equalization, and mastering practices needed for professional video audio.
  2. Methods and Tools: Apply structured methods, appropriate tools, and accepted practices to the work addressed in Topic 2, “Audio Levels, Loudness, and Compliance Standards.”
  3. Analysis and Judgment: Analyze the conditions presented in Topic 3, “Syncing Audio and Video”; identify significant risks or opportunities; and select a defensible response.
  4. Solution Development: Develop and justify a practical approach to Topic 4, “Mixing, Equalization, and Mastering.”
  5. Applied Deliverable: Produce an audio analysis and improvement plan addressing loudness, synchronization, dialogue clarity, music and effects balance, and delivery compliance that demonstrates accurate, ethical, and well-documented application of course concepts.
  6. Professional Communication: Communicate findings and recommendations using terminology, documentation standards, and evidence appropriate to broadcast, streaming, and digital-video environments.