Jul 04, 2024

2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Video and Film Production, Motion Design Concentration, B.S.

Media Arts
615-898-5118
Richard Lewis, program coordinator
Richard.Lewis@mtsu.edu

Motion Design fuses the technical skills, artistic aesthetics, and creativity of animation, graphic design, and video/film production to create compelling and moving visual imagery that can entertain, educate, inform, influence, or inspire. This kind of work can be seen anywhere that production design really matters.

Motion Design students build extensive knowledge working with cutting-edge tools for an ever expanding field, encompassing title and credit sequences for films and television, informational graphics for news and social media, animations for music videos and live events, animated advertisements, motion branding, VR/AR/MR/XR visual experiences, and much more. Hands-on opportunities begin the first year with foundational art and postproduction techniques and progress through a sequence of classes learning not only about the creation of cinematic moving art but how to operate motion design pieces in a variety of production environments including our 40-foot mobile television production lab and state of the art XR stage.

Admission to Candidacy

To be admitted to candidacy in the Video and Film Production, Motion Design program, the student must meet the following requirements:

45 hours completed before applying for candidacy
Passing grade for EMC 1010
Grade of B- (2.67) or better in each of the following:

Grade of C (2.00) or better in each of the following:

EMC 1020 /JOUR 1020 /RIM 1020

ENGL 1010 and ENGL 1020

Quantitative Literacy course satisfying True Blue Core requirements.

Academic Map

Following is a printable, suggested four-year schedule of courses:

Video and Film Production, Motion Design Concentration, B.S., Academic Map

Degree Requirements

True Blue Core (TBC)	41 hours
Major Requirements	61 hours*
College Core	9 hours
Department Core	2 hours
Motion Design Concentration	50 hours
Typographic Motion or Motion Illustration Minor	18 hours
Electives	0-3 hours
TOTAL	120 hours

*This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the True Blue Core curriculum. If program requirements are also used to fulfill True Blue Core requirements, the number of elective hours may increase.

True Blue Core (41 hours)

True Blue Core (TBC) requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.

The following courses required by the major meet True Blue Core requirements:

EMC 1020 /JOUR 1020 /RIM 1020 (HSSR)
ENGL 1010 (WC)
ENGL 1020 (Info Lit)

Major Requirements (61 hours)

Typographic Motion or Motion Illustration Minor (18 hours)

Electives (0-3 credits)

Curriculum: Video and Film Production, Motion Design

Freshman Fall

ENGL 1010 - Expository Writing 3 credit hours (WC)
ART 1610 - Two-Dimensional Design 3 credit hours
ART 1620 - Drawing I 3 credit hours
EMC 1010 - Orientation to Media Arts 1 credit hour
EMC 1020 - Introduction to Media and Entertainment 3 credit hours (HSSR) OR
RIM 1020 - Introduction to Media and Entertainment 3 credit hours (HSSR) OR
JOUR 1020 - Introduction to Media and Entertainment 3 credit hours (HSSR)

Subtotal: 13 Hours

Freshman Spring

ENGL 1020 - Research and Argumentative Writing 3 credit hours (Info Lit)
ANIM 1090 - Image and Video Foundations 4 credit hours
VFP 1080 - Post-Production I 3 credit hours
VFP 2121 - Media Aesthetics in Film and TV 3 credit hours
ART 1640 - Drawing II 3 credit hours OR
ART 2310 - Graphic Design Technologies 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 16 Hours

Sophomore Fall

IAM 3060 - Writing for Interactive Experiences 3 credit hours
Quantitative Literacy 3 credit hours
MODE 3040 - Motion Graphics I 3 to 4 credit hours (4 credit hours required)
ART 2310 - Graphic Design Technologies 3 credit hours OR
ART 1640 - Drawing II 3 credit hours
VFP 2130 - Single Cam I 3 credit hours OR
VFP 2131 - Multi Cam I 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 16 Hours

Sophomore Spring

ART 1630 - Three-Dimensional Design 3 credit hours
MODE 3320 - Visual Effects 3 credit hours
Creativity and Cultural Expression Literature 3 credit hours
Scientific Literacy 4 credit hours
ART 2325 - Typographic Design 3 credit hours OR
ILLU 3290 - Introduction to Illustration 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 16 Hours

Junior Fall

Non-Written Communication 3 credit hours
EMC 3001 - Success in Media Arts 1 credit hour
MODE 3045 - Live Production Graphics 3 credit hours
VFP 3080 - Post Production II 3 credit hours
ART 2325 - Typographic Design 3 credit hours OR
ILLU 3290 - Introduction to Illustration 3 credit hours
VFP 2410 - History of American Television 3 credit hours OR
VFP 2510 - History of American Cinema 3 credit hours OR
MODE 3610 - Theory and History of Motion Design 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 16 Hours

Junior Spring

VFP 3091 - XR, Live Event, and LED Virtual Production I 3 credit hours
Scientific Literacy 4 credit hours
Human Society and Social Relationships/Elective 3 credit hours
EMC 4250 - Media Law 3 credit hours OR
JOUR 4250 - Media Law 3 credit hours
Choose one:
ANIM 4910 - Advanced Seminar - Animation 3 credit hours OR
ART 4890 - Design History 3 credit hours OR
ILLU 4260 - Illustration in Motion 3 credit hours OR
ILLU 4360 - Comic Book Illustration 3 credit hours OR
ILLU 4370 - Concept Art for Visual Storytelling 3 credit hours OR
IXD 4410 - Typography in Motion 3 credit hours OR
VFP 4940 - Advanced Seminar-Filmmaking 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 16 Hours

Senior Fall

MODE 4040 - Motion Graphics II 3 credit hours
History and Civic Learning 3 credit hours
Human Society and Social Relationships 3 credit hours
Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours
ILLU 4260 - Illustration in Motion 3 credit hours OR *
IXD 4410 - Typography in Motion 3 credit hours *
*Note: See minor requirement.

Subtotal: 15 Hours

Senior Spring

ANIM 4405 - Professional Practices in Animation 2 credit hours
MODE 4985 - Motion Design Capstone 4 credit hours
History and Civic Learning 3 credit hours
Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours

Video and Film Production, Motion Design Concentration, B.S.

Admission to Candidacy

Academic Map

Degree Requirements

True Blue Core (41 hours)

Major Requirements (61 hours)

College Core (9 hours)

Department Core (2 hours)

Video and Film Production, Motion Design Concentration (50 hours)

Typographic Motion or Motion Illustration Minor (18 hours)

Electives (0-3 credits)

Curriculum: Video and Film Production, Motion Design

Freshman Fall

Subtotal: 13 Hours

Freshman Spring

Subtotal: 16 Hours

Sophomore Fall

Subtotal: 16 Hours

Sophomore Spring

Subtotal: 16 Hours

Junior Fall

Subtotal: 16 Hours

Junior Spring

Subtotal: 16 Hours

Senior Fall

Subtotal: 15 Hours

Senior Spring

Subtotal: 12 Hours