Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Academic Catalog
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AN 3771 - Video Editing + Sound Design for Animation


Credits: 3
Course Type: Studio

In this junior-level studio course, students will be introduced to the techniques of editing and sound design for both live-action and animation productions. Students will record dialogue and SFX, and work with live footage and Foley. Students will apply these skills to a variety of projects, including their own short film emphasizing visual and sound-based storytelling.

Prerequisites: AN 2310 - Creative Visualization  

Notes: (Formerly AN 2420 Animation Sound Design + Video Production. Formerly AN 3770 Animation Sound Design + Video Editing)


Course Learning Outcomes:
  • Apply industry standard methodologies for sound design in post-production processes.
  • Implement industry-standard techniques for continuity editing.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of visual flow in editing.
  • Apply industry standard methodologies for pre-production animation by transforming a written script into finalized storyboards and animatic. Students will utilize pre-production animation editing techniques to communicate the narrative and emotion of the scene or sequence.

AN 3771 Course Learning Outcome Rubric  

Required Textbooks:
In The Blink of An Eye, Walter Murch ISBN 978-1879505629

Film Directing Shot By Shot, Steven Katz  ISBN 978-1615932979
Required Course Materials:

  • Adobe Premiere
  • Adobe Audition



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