Certificate of Achievement in Media Arts: Editing

The successful completion of this certificate will give students a thorough background in the aesthetics of film and media, and experience in post-production solving editing challenges in motion picture and episodic projects preparing students to work in the editing department on productions.

With the creation of this program coupled with the overall revisions in all LAVC Media Arts programs, students will now be empowered with more choices and flexibility.  We expect the number of completers to start at approximately 12 in its first year and climb by 20%-25% in each year for the next five years.

• To give students a thorough background in the aesthetics of film and media in order to apply them to productions.
• To give students experience with various editorial techniques and styles to effectively tell a story.
• Learning to execute all positions on the editing team and learning the roles of each position.
• To give students the ability to build a reel (digital resume) with their own footage in order to better position themselves for transfer and/or gainful employment in the entertianment industry.

The requirements for this program begin with what we refer to as our "core studies" in Cinema and Media Arts. Understanding the aesthetics and history of motion pictures, navigating the business, story structure/screenwriting, and beginning film production. Students then go through the basic editing courses to eventually have the opportunity to earn this certificate with successful completion of our new, advanced editing course.

This new program is a part of a larger picture.  We have created "stackables" (please see attached flow chart for catalog) which start with a core of five general classes in the first tier.  Because film productions are made up of very different and specific departments we have included a second tier of courses that consist of several different options, this being one of them, that are more narrowly focused and consist of two classes for each option resulting in a specialized degree/certificate for each.  This program focusses specifically on editing techniques for students who are interested in being in the editing department working on post production workflows and editing films and/or single camera episodic productions. 

After researching similar programs at other colleges in our service area we have determined that, while there are Media Arts-related programs, there is no specific Editing program preparing students for employment in the editing department on a production. 

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