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Active as of Fall Semester 2013
I. General Information
1. Course Title:
Media Graphics
2. Course Prefix & Number:
VPRO 1150
3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:
Credits: 2
Lab Hours: 4
4. Course Description:
This course covers basic development and manipulations of raster and vector images for media presentations.
5. Placement Tests Required:
| Accuplacer (specify test): |
No placement tests required |
Score: |
|
6. Prerequisite Courses:
VPRO 1150 - Media Graphics
There are no prerequisites for this course.
9. Co-requisite Courses:
VPRO 1150 - Media Graphics
There are no corequisites for this course.
II. Transfer and Articulation
1. Course Equivalency - similar course from other regional institutions:
2. Transfer - regional institutions with which this course has a written articulation agreement:
III. Course Purpose
Program-Applicable Courses – This course is required for the following program(s):
Videography, AAS
Videography, Diploma
Other - If this course is not required in a program or is not part of the MN Transfer Curriculum, it may be used for the purpose(s) listed below:
Technical Elective
IV. Learning Outcomes
1. College-Wide Outcomes
| College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies |
Students will be able to: |
| Assess alternative solutions to a problem |
transform a raster image to a vector image |
| Analyze and follow a sequence of operations |
produce a presentation using motion graphics |
| Utilize appropriate technology |
select appropriate software for image requirements |
2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of
the course:
- Produce a vector image from hand drawing
- Reproduce a logo in vector format
- Prepare illustration for media components
- Apply special effects to photographs
- Perform typography animations
- Remove selected areas of a photograph
- Combine several photographs to one
- Apply matte keying effects to photos
- Generate caricatures
V. Topical Outline
Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.
1. Lecture Sessions
2. Laboratory/Studio Sessions
- Drawing and editing paths
- Using the bezier pen tool
- Understanding anchor points
- Create polygons
- Applying fills and strokes
- Color palettes
- Using RGB
- Using CMYK
- Using Pantones
Working with Gradients
- Converting images
- Placing images
- Auto Trace
- Typography
- Basic type editing
- Creating type on a path
- Converting type to graphics
- Image resolutions
- Document size vs image size
- Formatting files
- Working with layers
- Selecting objects
- Transforming layers
- Merging layers
- Layer effects
- Smart objects
- Masking
- Selections
- Marques
- Magic wand
- Masking
- Transformations
- Cropping
- Rotating
- Scaling
- Distorting
- Warping
- Skewing
- Color corrections
- Levels
- Hue/Saturation
- Tone
- Animation
- Animating type
- Animating opacities
- Animating positions
- File formats
- Format for print
- Format for web
- Format for video
- Format for animation
I. General Information
1. Course Title:
Media Graphics
2. Course Prefix & Number:
VPRO 1150
3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:
Credits: 2
Lab Hours: 4
4. Course Description:
This course covers basic development and manipulations of raster and vector images for media presentations.
5. Placement Tests Required:
| Accuplacer (specify test): |
No placement tests required |
Score: |
|
6. Prerequisite Courses:
VPRO 1150 - Media Graphics
There are no prerequisites for this course.
9. Co-requisite Courses:
VPRO 1150 - Media Graphics
There are no corequisites for this course.
II. Transfer and Articulation
1. Course Equivalency - similar course from other regional institutions:
2. Transfer - regional institutions with which this course has a written articulation agreement:
III. Course Purpose
1. Program-Applicable Courses – This course is required for the following program(s):
Videography, AAS
Videography, Diploma
3. Other - If this course does NOT meet criteria for #1 or #2 above, it may be used for the purpose(s) selected below:
Technical Elective
IV. Learning Outcomes
1. College-Wide Outcomes
| College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies |
Students will be able to: |
| Analyze and follow a sequence of operations |
produce a presentation using motion graphics |
| Utilize appropriate technology |
select appropriate software for image requirements |
2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of
the course:
- Produce a vector image from hand drawing
- Reproduce a logo in vector format
- Prepare illustration for media components
- Apply special effects to photographs
- Perform typography animations
- Remove selected areas of a photograph
- Combine several photographs to one
- Apply matte keying effects to photos
- Generate caricatures
V. Topical Outline
Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.
1. Lecture Sessions
2. Laboratory/Studio Sessions
- Drawing and editing paths
- Using the bezier pen tool
- Understanding anchor points
- Create polygons
- Applying fills and strokes
- Color palettes
- Using RGB
- Using CMYK
- Using Pantones
Working with Gradients
- Converting images
- Placing images
- Auto Trace
- Typography
- Basic type editing
- Creating type on a path
- Converting type to graphics
- Image resolutions
- Document size vs image size
- Formatting files
- Working with layers
- Selecting objects
- Transforming layers
- Merging layers
- Layer effects
- Smart objects
- Masking
- Selections
- Marques
- Magic wand
- Masking
- Transformations
- Cropping
- Rotating
- Scaling
- Distorting
- Warping
- Skewing
- Color corrections
- Levels
- Hue/Saturation
- Tone
- Animation
- Animating type
- Animating opacities
- Animating positions
- File formats
- Format for print
- Format for web
- Format for video
- Format for animation