Attendance: Attendance is expected at all class meetings and scheduled labs. Attendance will be taken at noon sharp in the Mac Lab on scheduled lab days and 10% will be deducted from the applicable project for unexcused absences. Students missing a scheduled viewing day with an unexcused absence with have 10% deducted from the project grade of the project being viewed that day.

Absences will be excused in accordance with University policy, however it will not be possible to make up lab work. In order to make up tests and other graded activities, the absence must be documented by a written note from a physician, counselor, etc.

Lab Schedule: A detailed schedule of times students will work under the instructor's supervision on the various projects will be distributed in class and posted on the class Web page. It will be updated as required, and it is the student's responsibility to make all required editing sessions.

Independent Work: While several sessions will be scheduled for each student to work on projects with the instructor available for assistance and critique, the majority of the work required to master editing skills must be done individually and not all of it can be accomplished during the scheduled class time. Facilities are very limited, so scheduling your editing sessions early and KEEPING to the schedule are critical!

Due Dates: All assignments are due at the BEGINNING of class on the dates designated in the syllabus. A 5% grade penalty will be assessed for each class period an assignment is late. NO work will be accepted after the last regular class period of the semester.

Grading: The course grade will be based upon the following-

               Non-Linear Tutorial                 5%
               Non-Linear Feature                 10%
               Non-Linear Promo                   10%
               Advanced Non-Linear Feature        10%
               Intro Motion Tutorial              10%
               Advanced Motion Tutorial           10%
               Motion Title Sequence              10%

               A/B Roll Promo                     10%
               A/B Roll Feature                   15%

               FCP Multi-Cam Assignment           +5% extra credit

               Final Exam                         10%


Tentative Course Schedule and Assignments:

DATE     TOPIC

Jan 12   Course intro.
    14   Technical editing theory
    21   Non-Linear editing
    26   A/B Roll editing
    28   Class Cancelled due to weather

Feb  2 Editing aesthetics, compositing and producing release prints on DVD 
     4   Lab
     9   Lab
    11   Lab
    16   Lab
    18   Viewing (FCP Tutorial & A/B Roll Promo logs are DUE)
    23   Lab
    25   Lab

Mar  9   Lab
    11   Viewing (Non-Linear Feature & A/B Roll Feature logs are DUE)
    16   Lab
    18   Lab
    23   Lab
    25   Viewing(Intro Motion Tutorial, Non-Linear Promo & A/B Roll Promos are DUE)
    30   Lab

Apr  1   Lab
     6   Lab
     8   Viewing (Advanced Non-Linear Feature and A/B Roll Feature EDLs are DUE)
    13   Lab
    15   Lab
    20   Viewing (Advanced Motion Tutorial and Title Sequence are DUE)
    22   Viewing and Review (A/B Roll Feature is DUE)

Apr 27   Final Exam, 2 pm

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