Digital Video (BA)
Digital Video Degree
Innovate in a new world of digital filmmaking and video production
A 21st Century Film Production Degree combining advanced digital filmmaking technology with innovative artistry.
Offered by a technology college, UAT’s Digital Video Bachelor of Arts is a film production degree that prepares students to take on the challenge of storytelling with contemporary relevance. Our digital video production degree immerses students in leading-edge technologies and environments that are essential to today’s film, television, video production, news gathering, animation, visual effects, gaming, web and interface design industries. This film production degree combines the best in class elements of digital filmmaking technologies and artistic production material to create an advanced and relevant degree for students looking for a career in digital filmmaking and video production. The focus of this film production degree is creating digital video production professionals who will have mastery over the dynamic and ever-evolving realm of 21st century film technology and artistry.
Students within this film production major will explore, design, and assemble pre-production materials to complement digital video works including screenplays, character building, storyboards, and shot lists to help you become a maestro of digital filmmaking. Building from this base of the film production degree, students will complete digital filmmaking projects such as short fiction films, documentaries, music videos, commercials, animations, visual effects shorts and more. Students of the Digital Video Bachelor of Arts film production degree will be prepared to exhibit their high quality professional camerawork, film composition, and lighting skills that reflect film production industry-standard methods and techniques.
Graduates of UAT’s film production degree, Digital Video Bachelor of Arts, will possess the capability and insight to succeed in digital filmmaking’s dynamic medium. Film production degree graduates will be prepared for careers in digital filmmaking, editing, & animation, and motion picture production.
With technology advancing at rapid speeds, digital filmmaking and the creativity behind storytelling is evolving. Through UAT’s film production degree, Digital Video Bachelor of Arts, you will gain the ability to influence your audience to feel the emotions behind of your creative mind using the film industry’s most advanced technology.
Digital Video Course Description
The moving image has emerged as the ubiquitous communication medium of the 21st century from the big screen of the local multiplex to the small screen of your favorite portable device and everywhere in between. The Digital Video degree prepares students to become the creative technologists who work behind the scenes to bring these images to life. Digital Video students produce polished and professional completed works through explorations of the aesthetic principles of visual storytelling and the mastery of industry-standard production and post-production tools. Students will learn applications in the diverse industries of film, television, animation, advertising and interactive content production. As innovations in digital image creation, post-production and distribution continue to become the new standards of this industry, graduates from this degree program will be uniquely positioned to apply new technological solutions to the task of delivering visual content to the ever-hungrier 21st century audience.
- Design and assemble preproduction materials for digital film projects.
- Work in a creative leadership role on minimum one (1) complete digital film project produced in the Production Studio courses. Creative leadership roles include director, writer, producer, editor, cinematographer, sound designer, visual effects supervisor, compositing supervisor, art director, production designer, or graphic designer.
- Create film visuals that exhibit professional quality in terms of camerawork, composition and lighting.
- Integrate composite shots into complete works by employing industry-standard tools and techniques.
- Edit and color grade digital film projects using industry standard nonlinear editors and post-production tools.
- Record, edit and mix high quality audio, including dialogue, sound effects and music, which are integrated into a complete digital film production.
Digital Video Degree Program Information
- Program Credits: 120
- Major Credits: 36
- Semesters to completion: 8
Requirements to graduate include a 2.0 CGPA, completed required coursework, Portfolio, Internship, and a Student Innovation Project.
For a more detailed breakout of completion time frames and rates, please see the UAT Fast Facts page.
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