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VCT 1015 - Project Planning

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture None Lab None
Course Description: This course will explore the conceptual skills involved in project planning for media production. Students will focus on creative and technical aspects of project management including; project charters, team dynamics project plan, plan implementation, storyboarding, budgeting, and pre-production planning as well as how to close out a project. The course content will apply to all areas within Visual Communications Technologies.
MnTC Goals
None

Prerequisite(s): VCT 1012 .
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content
  1. What is multimedia 
  2. Closeout and assessment of project
  3. Contracts and legal issues
  4. Create a project charter
  5. Create a project plan
  6. Creating successful projects
  7. Implement a project
  8. Multimedia planning documents
  9. Scripts, storyboards
  10. Splash vs. Home
  11. Team dynamics
  12. Thumbnails, roughs, comp
  13. Video vs. Multimedia
  14. Visual plan

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

  1. identify steps in project planning.
  2. prepare budgets for a specific project.
  3. identify pre-production elements.
  4. prepare outlines, thumbnails, scripts, storyboards.
  5. implement a project.
  6. prepare a closeout summary.
  7. identify target audience for a specific project.
  8. identify delivery of message
  9. prepare a project charter.
  10. select appropriate media for a specific project.
  11. prepare project treatments.

Competency 1 (1-6)
None
Competency 2 (7-10)
None


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