J213 Visual Storytelling: Realeyes Magazine

An in-depth documentary photo class where students will work photographing stories about California and its people and will try to visually create a singular photo essay on subjects such as immigration, schools, , urban sprawl, development, the environment  etc. You will work throughout the term on one in-depth project attempting to reduce a tiny area…

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J276 Intermediate Audio

This class is the next sequence for first-year audio track students who took the Audio J200 with Shereen. Other non-audio track students interested in learning a little bit of audio should take J219 Introduction to Audio. The goal of this class is to produce captivating, narrative, long-form audio stories. Students will learn the fundamentals of…

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J219 – Research Methods (Required of all 1st years) 7 weeks 8/30 – 10/11

This is a required course for all first-year students that will teach investigative research techniques that can be applied in your J200 Intro to Reporting class. Topics we will cover include how work with data in the context of journalism; using spreadsheets to sort, clean, interrogate and summarize data; how to request documents from local,…

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J219 Animating the News (2 sections) 10/12 – 11/9

This course is designed to introduce you to practices in animation used by media organizations. It will provide an overview of Adobe After Effects techniques and demystify the program. Prior knowledge of animation and motion graphics is not needed. Each class will consist of a short demonstration, viewing of related works, hands-on experimentation, and critique.…

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