FILM 281 - Film Editing

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

This course provides students with an overview of the entire post-production process, emphasizing how new technologies shape the way we tell a story. Topics include picture and sound editing, color correction, basic motion graphics, and visual effects. The class explores film history, aesthetics, and technology. Students review narrative, documentary, and experimental work, as well as edit several projects, exploring these different modes using pre-existing footage. The goal of the course is to develop the practical and analytic skills required of an editor as a member of the filmmaking team.

Prerequisite(s): FILM 209 and FILM 240 or FILM 241, plus permission of the instructor.

One 3-hour period.

Course Format: CLS