How about "Introduction to Digital Cinema"? No mention of 'film' or 'video' there... MJPW =========================== an elegant an appealing solution, but one that falls victim to two problems . . . first, it doesn't indicate that the the course involves learning how to MAKE a narrative video amd most students would automatically persume that it's an academic rather than studio course . . . second, is it in fact true that video cams use digital rather than analogue technology? . . . i kinda think not, but i'm not clear about this actually the problem reflects a larger one, a MUCH larger one that i can't recall every seening addressed . . . i don't think our language has a word that refers to any and all "things" that use the moving image to tell a story . . . i apologize for using the awful word "thing" there but the point is precisely that there is no real alternative . . . perhaps we can salvage that wonderful word "movie" from the grips of film, and use it to refer to any story told by means of the moving image regardless of the specific technology involved mike ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu