NEWM-N 367 Food Stories in Digital Media
3 credits
- Prerequisite(s): None
- Delivery: On-Campus, Online
Description
This course examines principles of food-focused storytelling across digital media formats, emphasizing techniques for creating story-rich projects. Students explore the role of food styling, photography, recipe videos, and documentaries, focusing on food initiatives from local farmers, distributors, and culinary professionals.
Topics
- Camera basics and lighting
- Camera settings and configurations
- Lighting techniques for product photography
- Natural vs. artificial light
- Image design and composition
- Principles of image composition
- Framing and positioning
- Rule of thirds and leading lines
- Backgrounds, sets, and props
- Choosing appropriate backgrounds for food photography
- Creating compelling sets for food styling
- Selecting and arranging props to enhance the product
- Food styling
- Techniques for presenting food in photography
- Working with different textures and colors
- Managing reflective products like liquids and glossy surfaces
- Capturing, editing, and processing images
- Basics of image capture for digital media
- Techniques for multi-camera video editing
- Color grading and motion graphics in post-production
- Multi-camera recipe videos
- Multi-camera setup and management
- Synchronizing video angles in editing
- Shooting techniques for recipe and instructional videos
- Compositing in Premiere Pro
- Layering video elements in Premiere Pro
- Adding production sound and sound effects
- Advanced shooting situations and post-production techniques
- Food mini-documentary production
- Planning and scripting a food documentary
- Integrating interviews, narration, and visual storytelling
- Advanced editing techniques to create a cohesive narrative
Learning Outcomes
- Apply advanced digital photography and videography techniques to food styling and recipe videos.
- Analyze and critique the use of visual storytelling in digital media related to food, identifying best practices.
- Design and produce professional-level digital media content using multi-camera setups, lighting, and post-production techniques.
- Synthesize food narratives through the creation of a food mini-documentary, incorporating production, editing, and storytelling skills.
Policies and Procedures
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