Unless otherwise indicated, written assignments should be submitted as a Microsoft Word file attached to an e-mail message addressed to mail@brianfuller.org.

Raw footage must be submitted on properly labeled tapes.  Improperly labeled tapes will not be accepted.  Really.

The majority of Video Production coursework will take the form of practical performance and projects.   If you are not present in class when your name is called to undertake a task, your work will be considered late.  If your work is submitted incomplete or otherwise outside the assignment's specified format parameters, it will be returned to you for correction.  Upon resubmission, it will be considered late work.

Late work can earn no more than a maximum of 64 points. Work is considered late if it is submitted after a deadline stated by the professor.  If, because of extreme and prolonged sickness, you miss a deadline and are able to substantiate a claim of incapacitation with a note from a reputable doctor or Calvin Health Services, the grades of your remaining assignments will be given greater weight to compensate. Otherwise, you will receive a zero for the assignment.

Fair warning:  bad stuff happens.  Tapes are lost, computers crash, servers fail, cameras are overbooked.   And -- as in the real world of media production -- deadlines are still deadlines.  I am disinclined to issue a grade of "incomplete."

The grade for the course will be based on the following:

Productions		60%
Participation		40%

Students will collaborate in the creation of a rubric by which the professor will evaluate each finished show.   Participation will be evaluated throughout the semester by the professor based on student contribution to class fraternity.  Assigning the grade, I am chiefly concerned with the following questions:

1)  To what degree and in what ways does the student demonstrate respect for his/her audience and co-laborers?
2)  To what degree and in what ways does the student model dependability and responsibility?
3)  In what ways has the student participated in work load, idea generation, and leadership -- apart from the work necessary to complete his/her own packages and programs?
4)  Of what value are the student's criticism and suggestions for improvement valued by his/her peers?

Assignment grades will be based on the following scale:

Because there are no "right" and "wrong" answers in this field of study, I am open to a certain amount of discussion with regard to the grade awarded any given assignment. Appeals should be made in a timely fashion, within two class periods of grade notification. Appeals should be made face to face (not by phone, in writing or by e-mail) and offered with rhetorical and presentational clarity (After all, this is a communication class).

A recent edition of the Calvin College Student Conduct Code notes that "the student-faculty relationship is based on trust and mutual respect which can be seriously undermined by the suspicion or reality of academic dishonesty."  It elsewhere defines plagiarism as "the use, by paraphrase or direct quotation, of the published or unpublished work of another person without full and clear acknowledgment."

The standards of honesty and the penalties of dishonesty apply equally to words, ideas, visual images, auditory images, and all electrochemical means of storage and communication.

I will vigorously pursue prosecution of plagiarists to the very limit of sanctions allowed by the college.  If you are uncertain about how to avoid plagiarism or other forms of academic dishonesty, please consult a member of the English faculty, the most recent edition of The Little, Brown Handbook,or (preferably) ask me.

While student media producers retain copyright ownership of their respective work, enrollment in this course constitutes your permission to let Calvin College, the Communication Arts and Sciences Department, the professor, their representatives, and successors, exhibit and distribute for promotional purposes those media projects submitted in fulfillment of course assignments.  You may withhold or limit such permission by indicating your wish to do so in a note to your professor signed, witnessed and dated before the course’s drop date.