This course offers an immediate hands-on exploration of the art and technology of remote television production, also known as "electronic field production" or EFP. Students receive instruction on creative and aesthetic use of the tools of video production beyond the confines of a TV studio using portable "prosumer" video cameras, tripods, microphones, lighting equipment, and non-linear post-production editing. In addition to in-class demonstrations, lectures, screenings and discussions, students engage in a series of assignments that build skills in pre-production story development and scripting, camera use and composition, continuity and verité shooting/editing techniques, and portable lighting and sound recording. Students also produce short documentary and fiction projects for broadcast on the HAM Channel. This course counts as a production requirement for the New Media Film Television and Radio major/minor, and fulfills an application requirement for the Visual and Performing Arts core. (Prerequisites: TL 11 and TL 130.) Three credits.

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