Course Overview
This course introduces the student to both the use of videography as an investigative tool and the preparation of admissible video evidence for court purposes. Additionally, students will learn some basic techniques for conducting and recording video for surveillance and documentation purposes. The course provides the knowledge and skills required for videotaping a variety of incidents such as; homicides, arsons, bombings or other acts of terrorism, accident re-creations, protests, aerial reconnaissance, shootings, video line-ups and suspect interviews. Students will also learn how to effectively use the internet to post images, video, and other information relating to crimes or incidents caught or recorded on video.
Prerequisite(s)
- Admission to a Forensics credential program or permission of the Program Head.
Credits
3.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate proper video camera set-up and recording techniques.
- Record from moving ground vehicles (car, truck, or surveillance van) and aerial platforms (fixed wing aircraft and helicopter) for surveillance and documentation purposes.
- Explain, in a manner that is comprehensible to lawyers, judges and jurors who lack technical knowledge, the principles of pre-planning, basic sequence, directional continuity, and editing in critical incident videography.
- Assess and document the characteristics of specific critical incident scenes.
- Implement established evidence protection and safety precaution protocols.
- Process six incident scene scenarios by identifying, protecting and recording potential forensic evidence.
- Apply the principles of pre-planning, basic sequence, directional continuity and editing of crime scene video for judicial process.
- Download various media formats onto a PC based system.
- Utilize basic editing techniques to prepare and output their finished product to DVD or other appropriate medium.
- Use the internet in an appropriate manner to post images, video, and other information relating to incidents recorded to video.
Effective as of Spring/Summer 2009
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