Multimedia professional program

Several short- and long-form projects will guide students through the process of conceptualizing, visualizing and producing animated stories.

Multimedia Storytelling: Data, Design and Animation combines data sourcing, motion design and video production exploring the powerful potential of digital visualization methods for journalism.

Students will be taught how to research, report, source data, storyboard, design, produce, edit and animate in-depth journalistic video content to acquire advanced industry-standard storytelling techniques. This course is designed for students looking to learn long-form, documentary filmmaking for theatrical release or digital platforms. The workshop component is part field training, part theory and discussion, part production, and part business.

Students will produce a documentary film by the end of the course. A large portion of class time will be spent with instructors working on shooting fundamentals and working towards advanced cinematography and storytelling techniques. A strong emphasis will be placed on visual composition and aesthetics. Students will be critiqued on their production skills as well as their reporting and storytelling. Significant classroom time will be spent on advanced editing techniques.

This course is not designed for those looking to become on-camera correspondents or to produce for network television programming. This class is for students who want to take their long-form journalism beyond print. Using online resources and old fashioned shoe leather reporting, the goal of each podcast episode will be to find the main newsmakers of the past event and reveal how the news coverage influenced their lives.

Students might pursue crime stories, missing persons cases, the rise and fall of political figures, catastrophic events that impacted a neighborhood, natural disasters that swept through a community, or an act of heroism that received wide acclaim. The stories will take the listener back in time using clear narrative writing and archival tape, and explain the significance of the news event and the role the newsmaker played. Three seminars will be co-taught by professors Faryon and Maharidge.

They will focus on the cross-over between long-form print narratives and storytelling for journalism-driven podcasts. Students will learn how to plan their reporting to ensure a three-act structure, and animate stories beyond talking heads.

This class prepares students to produce long form audio for a digital newsroom such as the LA Times, or podcast creation company. This course will focus on issue-driven photojournalism and multimedia in the social documentary tradition with students producing two multimedia stories focusing on a human rights or social justice concern.

Students will see examples of work that made an impact, critique the aesthetic strategies employed and learn about NGO and foundation collaborations. Students will incorporate text, video and audio into their stories, with the final outcome being a website of professional quality that can serve as a portfolio and material for contests and possible grants. Students will learn narrative storytelling, post production, archiving practices and business and pricing standards, including day rates, usage fees and copyright.

Students who bring their own dSLRs and lenses will not be charged this fee. In just one day, Prof. Michael Shapiro's Reporting students put together an interactive map how the story about impeachment Americans hear and read varies depending on where they live. Students visited buildings, interviewed tenants and gathered public records.

They found collapsing ceilings, illegally subdivided apartments, lead exposure and more. Francesca Mirabile, '16 M. Skip to main content. Home Programs Areas of Study Multimedia. Multimedia Develop storytelling skills in video, audio and photo.

Your skills should change, too. Classes may be taken individually over a two-year period, or two at a time, enrollment permitting. No GREs are required. Simply submit official undergraduate transcripts, a resume or CV, and a brief statement of purpose through the online application. Completion of all four courses provides media professionals with a strong understanding of digital communication, including the fundamentals of web production, shooting and editing photos, video and audio, and use of mobile and social media tools.

In addition, a media entrepreneurship class guides students through the steps of researching and pitching a startup digital business that could operate within an existing company or as a new enterprise. Full-time University of Maryland employees qualify for full tuition remission. Need more? At Sessions College, you can gain industry-relevant art and design skills in a project-based curriculum.

Get the critiques you need from our expert faculty and watch your creative work flourish. Digital media is everywhere. It seems that every day we are surrounded more by it. Professional digital media artists are needed to design and create the digital media we consume, so employers need to hire well-trained and educated employees to compete in digital spaces.

Our digital media degree program will help you build a foundation for careers across a number of industries. Here are some examples. Associate Degree in Digital Media.

Comprehensive 72 credit, 2 year degree program Includes Portfolio Review and Design Business course Financial aid and creative scholarships for students who qualify. Undergraduate Certificate in Digital Media.