Filmmaking
Courses in the filmmaking pathway provide students with the training, practice, and expertise to become the media industry’s next producers, directors, writers, cinematographers, editors and sound recordists and mixers. At the core of the filmmaking pathway are storytelling principles that transcend genre.
Filmmaking
Our courses encourage students to inquire what makes media compelling and then gives them the technical skills to produce compelling media themselves. We urge students to approach the medium through a critical lens and to tell stories that matter, in the form of screenplays, scripted films, or documentaries. Students in the filmmaking pathway have access to our line of Sony cinema cameras, Zeiss prime lenses, and other industry-standard equipment. We teach AVID Media Composer and ProTools (students do not need prior experience with this software, as instruction on it begins in Introduction to Digital Filmmaking, our first filmmaking class). The capstone experience allows students to put their acquired skills to the test through the production of a 10-minute narrative or documentary short film. Students may begin the two-semester capstone sequence either spring semester junior year or fall semester senior year.
Podcasting
Courses in the podcasting pathway provide students with training and tools to produce compelling short-form, long-form, and experimental podcasts. Essential to this training is sustained critical inquiry into the aesthetic, cultural, and economic dimensions of audio-first storytelling—from Depression-era oral histories to the latest trends in podcast programming.
Podcasting
Throughout their course of study podcasting students will also develop and cultivate skills using advanced audio recording equipment, leading-edge editing software, and multiple distribution platforms. By the time they complete their senior capstone project, podcasting students will have developed both a competitive creative portfolio and deep appreciation for the constraints and capacities of the audio-first podcasting form.
Students in Podcasting Production II produce podcasts in partnership with the New Orleans Public Library’s music streaming service, Crescent City Sounds (crescentcitysounds.org). These podcasts explore the music and lives of New Orleans musicians whose work is featured on the Crescent City Sounds website. Each episode of the Your New Favorite Song podcast spotlights and celebrates a single track from a CCS featured album. Episodes of the Your New Favorite Artist podcast features conversations with artists, live performances, and more.
Games & Interactive Media
The games interactive media pathway involves students using an interdisciplinary, personal, educational and experimental approach to game making and creative coding. Students will use the Unity game engine for independent game making and the open source JavaScript library p5.js for creative coding on the internet.
Games & Interactive Media
While making games and interactive experiences, students will also be exposed to critical and experimental approaches to games and coding through readings, playing games and interactive websites, discussions and screenings. These readings and projects are intended to incite an active and critical perspective on contemporary game and coding practices in art, design and digital interfaces. Students who choose this pathway will ultimately create a multimedia interactive application (games, websites, etc.) for their senior capstone project.
Equipment
- 2 gaming PCs
- Rokoko Motion Capture Suit
- 2 Valve Index VR rigs
- 1 Meta Quest VR headset
Projects
Sound
The Sound Practice Pathway is designed for students passionate about harnessing sound as a practical tool and an expressive medium. This pathway offers a comprehensive foundation in audio technologies, storytelling through sound, music production, sound design, and audio-focused interactive programming. Students in this program frequently collaborate on projects within the broader Digital Media Practices Major, fostering interdisciplinary learning and creativity.
Sound
The sound pathway supports students in the study and creation of sound for film and television. Our courses focus on the techniques and practice of recording high quality sound. We then teach the professional software to mix and master those sounds into a compelling soundscape. Our sound pathway pairs well with Podcasting in DMP or a Music Science and Technology double major.
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Digital Media Practices Courses
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