Video Production - Major #8511

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The program map below represents an efficient and effective course taking sequence for this program. Individual circumstances might require some changes to this path. It is always recommended that you meet with your pathway counselor to develop a personalized educational plan.


This comprehensive program features production planning, camera and audio work, post-production editing techniques and technology to produce short digital video projects using standard industry software. Students will experience working in the studio, using the green room, sound room, several types of cameras, and field audio recorders. Project work includes individual, partnership and small group assignments. The skills acquired prepare students for entry-level employment in the video industry as a videographer, editor, entrepreneur, or YouTube content producer.


Upon completion of the program, students will:
  1. 1. Demonstrate competency in production by successfully designing and completing video projects to specification using industry-standard software and editing techniques.
Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester

Term 1

13 units

GRC 22
Digital Media

3 units
Effective Term: 2025 Spring Semester
This course concentrates on working with Adobe Audition software to capture and adjust digital audio with an introduction to digital media. Project work incorporates an assortment of audio/video software and hardware used to create digital slide shows, image capture, and short video. (A, CSU)
Course Details:

    GRC 27
    Digital Video Production

    3 units
    Effective Term: 2025 Spring Semester
    This course provides an Introduction to digital video production with emphasis on planning, storytelling, vocabulary, camera handling, lighting, sound, and working with professional editing software. Students complete short exercises and create video projects. (A, CSU, UC)
    Course Details:

      GRC 31
      Photoshop for Design

      3 units
      Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
      This course features Adobe Photoshop with an emphasis on graphic design. Units include production for print, web, and digital media applications. (A, CSU, UC)
      Course Details:

        GRC 41
        Visual Communications

        3 units
        Effective Term: 2025 Spring Semester
        This is a survey course centering around the significant techniques and examples of visual communication as employed by the mass media, including newspapers, magazines, television, and advertising. Discussion and demonstration of the tools used in analyzing visual communication creation and analysis of images for print, web, and video is included. (A, CSU, UC)
        Course Details:

          GRC 51
          Storyboarding

          1 unit
          Effective Term: 2025 Spring Semester
          This course involves pre-visualization for animation, video, web, and game production. Introduction to media-specific storyboarding processes and techniques. (A, CSU)
          Course Details:

            Recommend PHOTO 6 for program prerequisite (see PHOTO 26)

            Term 2

            12.5 units

            GRC 23
            Video Editing - Adobe Premiere Pro

            3 units
            Effective Term: 2025 Spring Semester
            This course covers the concepts, theories, and techniques of nonlinear digital video editing. This includes organization of the editing process, working on the timeline, audio editing, basic titles, and basic visual effects using Adobe Premiere Pro. Emphasis will be placed on identifying general principles of editing as well as different aesthetic techniques for source material. (A, CSU)
            Course Details:
              (
            1. Advisory: GRC 22
              2. OR
            2. Advisory: GRC 322
              3. OR
            3. Advisory: GRC 27
              4. OR
            4. Advisory: GRC 327
              5. OR
            5. Advisory: GRC 32
              6. OR
            6. Advisory: GRC 332
              7. )

            This class is typically only offered in the spring term. 

            GRC 55
            Social Media Design

            3 units
            Effective Term: 2025 Spring Semester
            In this introductory course, students will create content for a branded identity. Students will use online-based software and/or smart device applications to create graphics, images, blog posts, and video for current Social Media platforms. (A, CSU)
            Course Details:

              PHOTO 67
              Drone Multimedia I

              0.5 units
              Effective Term: 2025 Spring Semester
              In this course, students will be introduced to aerial still and motion capture, covering both photography and video elements. Topics include safety protocols, regulations, industry applications, storytelling techniques, and software output. (A, CSU)
              Course Details:
                (
              1. Advisory: PHOTO 6
                2. AND
              2. Advisory:
                3. )

              MUS 8
              Audio Engineering

              3 units
              Effective Term: 2022 Fall Semester
              This course is an introduction to the art and science of audio engineering. It covers fundamental concepts and techniques, including the use of digital audio workstations, basic acoustics, signal flow, microphone principles and usage, studio equipment, signal processing, recording console functions, and multi-track recording procedures. Designed for students in music, commercial music and electronic media. (A, CSU, UC)
              Course Details:

                ENGL 15C - Creative Writing: Playwriting or Toggle the visibility of the item detail panel FILM 7 - Introduction to Screenwriting or Toggle the visibility of the item detail panel JOURN 3 - Newswriting

                3 units

                ENGL 15C
                Creative Writing: Playwriting

                3 units
                Effective Term: 2025 Fall Semester
                Analysis and writing of plays for critical review. (A, CSU, UC)
                Course Details:
                1. Prerequisite: ENGL C1000
                or

                FILM 7
                Introduction to Screenwriting

                3 units
                Effective Term: 2025 Spring Semester
                This basic introductory course teaches narrative script writing for film and episodic television. Emphasis on basic screenplay structure, characters, conflict, theme and technical script formatting in the development of a short screenplay. (A, CSU, UC)
                Course Details:
                  or

                  JOURN 3
                  Newswriting

                  3 units
                  Effective Term: 2026 Spring Semester
                  News information gathering and writing for print and digital media. Includes the basics of news writing, methods and practices, interviewing, feature writing, and emphasis on writing against deadlines. Covers the ethical, policy and legal questions confronting journalists, their editors and publishers. (A, CSU)
                  Course Details:
                  1. Advisory: ENGL C1000

                  Term 3

                  15 units

                  GRC 32
                  Cinematography

                  3 units
                  Effective Term: 2025 Spring Semester
                  This course introduces production and post-production processes with emphasis on story telling. Topics include lighting for effect, audio, camera work, video editing, and both group and individual project work. (A, CSU, UC)
                  Course Details:

                    GRC 38
                    Video Post Production

                    3 units
                    Effective Term: 2025 Spring Semester
                    This course deals with post-production techniques for adjusting audio and video project quality. Units include working with mixed frame sizes, mixed frame rates, correcting color, matching color from various sources and working with log exposure using a test target. Corrective audio adjustments include audio editing tools in Premiere and the use of Adobe Audition, Photoshop and After Effects. (A, CSU)
                    Course Details:
                      (
                    1. Advisory: GRC 22
                      2. OR
                    2. Advisory: GRC 322
                      3. OR
                    3. Advisory: GRC 23
                      4. OR
                    4. Advisory: GRC 323
                      5. OR
                    5. Advisory: GRC 27
                      6. OR
                    6. Advisory: GRC 327
                      7. )

                    GRC 47
                    Introduction to Media Appreciation

                    3 units
                    Effective Term: 2025 Spring Semester
                    This course deals with fundamental principles of media and competencies for digital artists and designers. (A, CSU, UC)
                    Course Details:

                      GRC 53
                      Adobe After Effects

                      3 units
                      Effective Term: 2025 Spring Semester
                      This is an introduction to motion graphics and video post-processing using Adobe After Effects. Projects incorporate a series of techniques used to create special effects videos. (A, CSU)
                      Course Details:

                        PHOTO 26
                        Lighting Principles

                        3 units
                        Effective Term: 2025 Spring Semester
                        This course covers the qualities, characteristics, and styles of photographic lighting. Students will learn studio lighting techniques and use them to photograph still life subjects. The focus will be on problem-solving and creative self expression through images. (A, CSU)
                        Course Details:
                        1. Prerequisite: PHOTO 6
                        Total: 40.5 units