Enroll in Audio Video Production 1 with Dolphin STEM Academy

Course Overview

This one-semester course is intended as a practical, hands-on guide to help you understand the
skills required to achieve success in modern-day careers. This course has 18 lessons organized
into four units, plus four Unit Activities. Each lesson contains one or more Lesson Activities.

This course will cover various topics in audio-video production, such as camera techniques,
audio techniques, lighting techniques, editing, and video assembly.

You will submit the Unit Activity documents to your teacher, and you will grade your work in the
Lesson Activities by comparing them with given sample responses. The Unit Activities
(submitted to the teacher) and the Lesson Activities (self-checked) are the major components of
this course. There are other assessment components, namely the mastery test questions that
feature along with the lesson; the pre- and post-test questions that come at the beginning and
end of the unit respectively, and an end-of-semester test. All of these tests are a combination of
simple multiple-choice questions and technology enhanced (TE) questions.

Course Goals

This course will help you meet the following goals:
Describe the types and parts of cameras and demonstrate basic camera operations.
Describe various video formats, recording media, and the important terms used in video production.
Explain the basics of script writing and storyboarding for audio and video formats.
Explain the various cinematography techniques and ways to frame and maintain picture composition.
Describe various lighting techniques.
Apply various audio techniques and describe sound mixing methods used for a successful
audio-video production.
Explain and demonstrate the steps involved in assembling a final video.