JOU 4001: Visual Storytelling Production is designed to enhance the skills that students learned in Multimedia Production 1. By the end of the semester, students will:

• Understand some of the legal and ethical issues facing journalists and other communication professionals who work with digital tools on the Internet.
• Learn how to give and receive constructive criticism.
• Further their understanding of audio-visual production techniques.
• Improve their abilities to research multi-media news stories
• Produce an extended infographic on the class themes.
• Produce an audio slideshow on the class themes.
• Produce multi-source video with B-Roll on the class themes.
• Produce two multimedia packages.
• Further their skills with PhotoShop, Audacity and Final Cut Express.
• Learn the basics of HTML5/CSS3.