Digital Media Arts
As Shakespeare observed, the entire World’s a stage. Whether its music, painting, drawing, sculpting, writing, dancing, or any other genre, artistic expression is all around us—on TV and radio, at the movies, on newspapers or magazines, in art galleries, on the Web, in our MP3 players. People who work in the Digital Media Arts cluster may entertain and inform through an ever-growing array of new media forms. A world of audio-visual (A/V) technology and communications professionals—including producers and directors, print and digital journalists, website designers, video game programmers, and animation artists—makes it all possible.
Courses in this cluster include:
• Principles of Arts, AV Technology & Communications - Learn how to entertain and inform the world through growing forms of new media. Looking for a career in movie-making, producing TV shows, or traveling around the world as a professional photographer? Or maybe you are interested in creating animations, graphic design, video game design, or web site design? Learn the foundations for those careers in this class. Express your creative side while working with state-of-the -art equipment.
• Animation - A fun and exciting course which will give you the ability to learn the skills in computer graphics, digital images, animation, and multimedia presentations.
• Audio/Video Production - Get ready to expand your skills in the Audio/Video production field. Learn how to make short films, commercials, news stories, music videos and much more. Help create a weekly newscast: KDVH Channel 3 News.
• Advanced Audio/Video Production - Take your skills learned in the animation and audio/video production classes and create Conquest Journal, a bi-monthly magazine-style television show viewed by all the Del Valle Community. Work with state-of-the-art equipment that the pros use, and be ready to enter the profession straight out of high school with valuable experience and industry certification.
• Graphic Design - Graphic design is everywhere. Learn how to use print-industry-standard software including Adobe InDesign and Photoshop to develop and refine graphic design skills. Dabble with photography to learn the basics and take it to the next level with Photoshop. Put it all together for fun presentations and projects that express your graphic design skills. Learn the basic skills applicable to print, as well as web, in this beginner class, that opens the pathway to yearbook and newspaper.
• Advanced Graphic Design & Illustration - Take the basic skills learned in Graphic Design and apply them immediately in a yearlong project — producing the yearbook. Have fun using industry-standard software such as Adobe InDesign and Photoshop, while using professional-grade photo equipment to cover school events, big and small, to put together the memories everyone cherishes. Learn to develop a professional relationship with the publishing company representative and leave your legacy to the school in a one-of-a-kind book. By the end of the year take away a ready-made portfolio in this hands-on production class. This is a great resume building class
• Commercial Photography - Translate your Graphic Design skills into a more immediate project — creating the school newspaper. Use software and photo equipment professionals use to expand those skills by applying them to a production class that includes immediacy with hands-on planning, reporting, design, photography, and production. Expand your photo skills, Photoshop skills, design skills, writing skills, and people skills. Walk away with a ready-made portfolio and experience covering events up close where it all happens as you cover news, features, and sports. Are you opinionated? Give voice to student issues here through editorials. Join the fun and be in the know!
• Animation - A fun and exciting course which will give you the ability to learn the skills in computer graphics, digital images, animation, and multimedia presentations.
• Audio/Video Production - Get ready to expand your skills in the Audio/Video production field. Learn how to make short films, commercials, news stories, music videos and much more. Help create a weekly newscast: KDVH Channel 3 News.
• Advanced Audio/Video Production - Take your skills learned in the animation and audio/video production classes and create Conquest Journal, a bi-monthly magazine-style television show viewed by all the Del Valle Community. Work with state-of-the-art equipment that the pros use, and be ready to enter the profession straight out of high school with valuable experience and industry certification.
• Graphic Design - Graphic design is everywhere. Learn how to use print-industry-standard software including Adobe InDesign and Photoshop to develop and refine graphic design skills. Dabble with photography to learn the basics and take it to the next level with Photoshop. Put it all together for fun presentations and projects that express your graphic design skills. Learn the basic skills applicable to print, as well as web, in this beginner class, that opens the pathway to yearbook and newspaper.
• Advanced Graphic Design & Illustration - Take the basic skills learned in Graphic Design and apply them immediately in a yearlong project — producing the yearbook. Have fun using industry-standard software such as Adobe InDesign and Photoshop, while using professional-grade photo equipment to cover school events, big and small, to put together the memories everyone cherishes. Learn to develop a professional relationship with the publishing company representative and leave your legacy to the school in a one-of-a-kind book. By the end of the year take away a ready-made portfolio in this hands-on production class. This is a great resume building class
• Commercial Photography - Translate your Graphic Design skills into a more immediate project — creating the school newspaper. Use software and photo equipment professionals use to expand those skills by applying them to a production class that includes immediacy with hands-on planning, reporting, design, photography, and production. Expand your photo skills, Photoshop skills, design skills, writing skills, and people skills. Walk away with a ready-made portfolio and experience covering events up close where it all happens as you cover news, features, and sports. Are you opinionated? Give voice to student issues here through editorials. Join the fun and be in the know!