Visual Media Production and Design (BFA)

Students are introduced to mass communication and explore its culture-shaping power, contemporary issues, and media’s impact on society. Students evaluate media economics, forms, history, ethics, careers, legal issues, societal issues, and religious issues.

Students explore the history of media arts through the early 1960s. Students examine the connections between economics, industrial history, and social and political systems. Students also examine the media from an artistic, rhetorical, and critical lens.

This course is a study in writing story for a variety of print, screen, and web-based mediums, fundamentally equipping the student to communicate abstractly, visually, and directly with people. The instructor will explore this idea and many others related to the act of creation as a reflection of the divine, and therefore one of many things we are called to do.

Students gain insight into structures, management, processes, and the economics of and issues surrounding media and the arts. An emphasis is placed on financial stability and profitability in a changing media market.

Students are introduced to concepts of visual art and design including storyboarding, visual storytelling, and theoretical principles.

Students explore elements and principles of basic two-dimensional design with an emphasis on composition, color theory, and craftsmanship.

Students explore elements and principles of basic three-dimensional design with an emphasis on spatial organization, color, and planning and craft.

Students explore the development and application of typography for design and layout.

Students use the principles of 2D design, color and type elements as they relate to design for printed objects and showcasing of those products through photography and video. Students will fuse photography with design products to display successful presentations of package design products.

This course examines the components of audio, video, and still images for the purpose of media production. Students explore the equipment used to produce content.

Students continue developing editing skills and are introduced to Photoshop and Aftereffects. Emphasis is placed on deadlines and following industry workflow.

This course analyzes the components of audio, video, and still images for the purpose of media production. Students apply production techniques used to produce interactive media content.

This is a project-oriented course where students organize and construct media components using creative production techniques centered around concepts such as color grading, compositing 2D and 3D elements into shot footage, and motion tracking. Students develop visual language skills by exploring motion media editing theory as well as execution.

Students create a substantial body of work in their chosen Visual Media Production and Design discipline (Video, Graphic Design, Animation, Writing) with supporting elements from the adjacent disciplines. This is designed as the first course in a 3-course sequence for portfolio production. The end goal of the three courses is a completed portfolio. A system of feedback and analysis at checkpoints will be used throughout.

Students create a substantial body of work in their chosen Visual Media Production and Design discipline (Video, Graphic Design, Animation, Writing) with supporting elements from the adjacent disciplines. This is designed as the second course in a 3-course sequence for portfolio production. The end goal of the three courses is a completed portfolio. A system of feedback and analysis at checkpoints will be used throughout.

Students create a substantial body of work in their chosen Visual Media Production and Design discipline (Video, Graphic Design, Animation, Writing) with supporting elements from the adjacent disciplines. This is designed as the third course in a 3-course sequence for portfolio production. The end goal of the three courses is a completed portfolio. A system of feedback and analysis at checkpoints will be used throughout.

Under the supervision of a qualified professional, interns gain real-world experience in a media-arts work environment.

Students demonstrate a culmination of skills developed during their studies. Students produce a project with choice of subject and medium which showcases practical skills.