Welcome to Visual Communications at Foothill Technology High School taught by Mr. Cameron Crouch. The class introduces the student to the world of motion picture through nonlinear video editing.

It is highly recommended that Technology 3 be taken before enrolling in Visual Communications. The beginning of the course consists of a quick Photoshop refresher before diving into the programs Adobe Premier and Adobe After Effects.

First Semester of Visual Communications consists of tutorials and training in the use of programs.

Second semester will consist of creating videos that are highly polished pieces for use in broadcast, film festival/contests, personal projects, and teacher assigned group videos. Students will be responsible for story-boarding, shooting, capturing, adding effects, transitions, audio, titles, and quality of production.

There is a $10 class fee that pays for Mini DV cassettes, blank CD's and blank DVD's. These materials will be used by the students to store material and projects. Each student will be making a DVD compilation of all their work from the year.