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  • MSP 107: Introduction to Video Production and Literacy

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    Students are introduced to the theory and operation of analog and digital cameras, elementary lighting and basic audio equipment, common professional video production, and filmmaking. After instructors explain the theory of production equipment, students complete assignments in basic equipment operation. The fundamentals of visual storytelling are emphasized. Through demonstrations and hands-on experience, students apply the basics of lighting, exposure, composition, sequencing, and non-linear editing techniques used by professionals in visual narrative storytelling. The students develop ideas learned in MSP 111 (Mass Media and Society) and apply skills to capture quality images and sound using digital video equipment. Using these skills, they learn to tell stories using video and sound. Projects developed are distributed over student and other community-based media. This course is subject to a course fee.

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  • MSP 111: Mass Media and Society

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    Students learn to access, analyze, evaluate and create media and are introduced to the basic building blocks of storytelling and journalism. They identify, research, write, and produce aural and visual packages about key media issues based on their understanding and interpretation of the issues that are then distributed over class, college and community based channels. By doing so they gain an understanding of the media saturated world and the aesthetic, cultural, economic, and political forces that guide the creation and distribution of media messages. This course is subject to a course fee.

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  • MSP 112: Survey of Mass Media Industries in the United States

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    Building on skills and insights obtained in MSP 111, students survey the history and evolution of mass media industries in the United States to achieve a basic understanding of current trends that affect the future of the industry. They analyze and evaluate themes and create media that examines the formative history and current issues related to print, motion picture, sound recording, radio, television, the Internet, games, social media and emerging communication technologies. Projects developed are distributed over class, school and community-based channels. Students are required to research, interview primary and secondary sources, analyze research, write, create and produce media work to build upon their digital portfolio. Students analyze legal, ethical and controversial issues confronting mass media industries. This course is subject to a course fee.

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  • MSP 125: Introduction to Writing for Broadcast News

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course explores the theory and practice to give students a foundation in the principles and practice of broadcast news reporting and writing. The course teaches students to organize, research, and write coherent news stories for broadcast using a variety of professional news styles. Students analyze written formats and styles used in radio and television newsrooms, choose sound bites, write broadcast news copy, and are introduced to professional information-gathering and interviewing techniques. Students write voiceovers and anchor readers and field packages. This course is subject to a course fee.

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  • MSP 126: Introduction to Scriptwriting

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    Students analyze narrative scriptwriting for film, television and radio. Emphasis is placed on the pitch, treatment, and appropriate format. Students apply the foundations of scriptwriting to original and adapted material. Students are encouraged to develop a unique voice by researching, writing, and editing preparatory, and marketing material for completed scripts. Students write scripts to form for television, film, and radio that are also used in advertising, public relations, gaming, animation, and narrative drama. This course is subject to a course fee.

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  • MSP 169: Introduction to Electronic Journalism

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    This course introduces the basic building blocks of electronic journalism. It builds on basic broadcast writing skills and explains how professionals in mass media tell stories using digital technology. Students explore the reporter's role and the technology involved in news reporting. Students will apply their skills and develop stories, edit words, and produce both the pictures and sound as they prepare their stories and news packages for electronic distribution to a diverse audience over college, student, and community-based media. Students gain a clear understanding of the principles and professional practices of television news production and learn to critically evaluate the ethics and controversies in unbiased storytelling. This course is subject to a course fee.

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  • MSP 170: Media Production Workshop I

    1.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    Students in this course will gain immediate entry-level hands-on experience producing media content for public distribution. Students will select from Video, Radio/Podcast, and Print Media Production. Students will use professional equipment and software to assist in the writing and production of audio and video PSAs; newscasts; news and human interest reporter packages; narrative stories; and live and recorded event broadcasts. Students will also learn professional procedures, standards, and practices of media industries. This course is subject to a course fee.

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  • MSP 171: Media Production Workshop II

    1.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    Students in this course will gain immediate mid-level hands-on experience producing media content for public distribution. Students will select from Video, Radio/Podcast, and Print Media Production. Students will use professional equipment and software to assist in the writing and production of PSAs; newscasts; news and human interest reporter packages; narrative stories; and live and recorded event boadcasts. Students will also learn professional procedures, standards, and practices of media industries. This course is subject to a course fee.

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  • MSP 200: Ethics, Responsibility, Mass Media and the Law

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    Students examine and analyze mass media through case studies and commentaries that focus on a wide spectrum of historical and contemporary legal and ethical issues faced by media practitioners in broadcasting, advertising, public relations, publishing, and filmmaking. The course builds on information learned in MSP 111 to provide a foundation for the theoretical principles of media ethics and the legal issues surrounding mass media, journalism, and content distribution.

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  • MSP 230: The Movies: Meanings & Methods

    3.00 Credits
    Montgomery County Community College

    The popular arts of "the movies" and television are carefully prepared constructions of sights and sounds. Watching them is the chief way our society comes to recognize itself. COM 230 is about learning to get more enjoyment and meaning from these products of the image industries. The course examines how meaning is created and communicated in non-print media. Basic concepts and techniques in constructing and interrelating visual and aural images will be discussed in light of the historical development of film and video technology and techniques.

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