You’ll master filmmaking techniques through experiential learning when you earn our undergraduate minor in Video Production.
Students use industry-standard equipment, advanced editing software, professional lighting techniques, and digital effects. Utilize field production techniques as you shoot interviews and narrative scenes to create documentaries and short narrative films.
Learn how to plan, shoot, edit, and deliver complex video productions. You’ll apply advanced lighting and photography techniques for a variety of conditions while putting into practice the principles of composition, continuity, cinematic space, and A/B roll editing. Prepare to develop story ideas, translate them into a visual medium, and structure them effectively using creative methods of information presentation and narrative storytelling.
Develop real-world video skills
Core (9 cr.)
- NEWM-N 253 Introduction to Digital Video (3 cr.)
- NEWM-N 353 Intermediate Digital Video (3 cr.)
- NEWM-N 356 Lighting and Field Production (3 cr.)
Selectives (6 cr.)
Select two:
- NEWM-N 255 Introduction to Digital Sound (3 cr.)
- NEWM-N 354 Directorial Analysis, Production, and RAW Workflow (3 cr.)
- NEWM-N 355 Intermediate Digital Sound Design (3 cr.)
- NEWM-N 357 Digital Effects (3 cr.)
- NEWM-N 415 Documenting Cultural Heritage: Artifacts and Traditions (3 cr.)
- NEWM-N 453 Advanced Digital Video (3 cr.)
- NEWM-N 456 Digital Cinema (3 cr.)
- NEWM-N 468 Video for Social Change (3 cr.)
Additional Herron and Liberal Arts courses, including topics courses, seminars, and independent studies, may be counted as selectives with the faculty advisor’s approval.
Substitute Courses
CGT 34600 Digital Video and Audio (3 cr.), HER-K 300 Photography and Intermedia: Time-based Art (3 cr.), or MUS-A 242 Music Technology Lab IV may be taken instead of NEWM-N 253 Introduction to Digital Video (3 cr.) to satisfy the core requirement.
MUS-Z 320 Advanced Special Topics in Music/Non-Majors: Digital Sound Design (3 cr.) may be substituted for NEWM-N 255.
Students must earn a C or higher in each course to graduate with the Video Production minor.
- Demonstrate a working knowledge of the video signal, camera operation, lighting techniques, audio recording, interview techniques, basic visual composition, and conventions.
- Understand the theory and current practices of planning, shooting, editing and delivering a complex digital video project.
- Develop ideas, planning, scripting, scheduling, and delivery requirements (pre-production).
- Understand various types of production, camera handling, framing, lighting, interview techniques, sound recording, and shooting for coverage (production).
- Use A-rolling story structure, B-rolling coverage, voiceover, editing, and creating graphics with Avid Media Composer (post-production).
- Demonstrate knowledge of exporting final video to specific media formats suitable for uploading to video hosting websites (presentation).
- Evaluate video in terms of effective delivery of information through production and post-production techniques.
- Participate as a member and/or leader of a video production team.
- Plan and execute documentary films, applying methods of effective storytelling.
- Demonstrate proficiency with the principles of photography and techniques involved in the successful depiction of cinematic space.
- Construct an argument and relate information by applying the concepts of visual literacy.
- Develop story ideas, translate them into a visual medium, and structure a story effectively using creative methods of narrative storytelling.
- Apply advanced lighting techniques including 3-point lighting and color temperature.
- Light for a variety of conditions while putting into practice the principles of lighting.
- Compose digital images with still and video cameras, exhibiting an appreciation of the aesthetics of lighting composition.
- Apply green screen/Chroma-key effects and techniques for lighting composition.
- Plan field productions, including budgets and other documents.
- Perform in the role of the director of photography and that of the lighting engineer.
- Set up, transport, and use digital imaging equipment (cameras, video, lights).
Add a minor
Email Jill Mathews at jilmathe@iu.edu to declare a minor.
For academic advising, contact our undergraduate advisors.