Digital Media Track

Pursue a Career in the Digital Media Field

Digital Media offers foundational skills to prepare students for careers in new media, multimedia, and digital media using Adobe Creative Cloud Products. Students have the opportunity to gain Industry Certifications in top design applications like Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, and After Effects.

Digital Media 1

In this course, students will become fully versed in Adobe Photoshop CC and start to learn the basics of Adobe Illustrator CC. Students not only have the opportunity to gain Adobe ACA certification in Photoshop, but also begin to learn basic design principles such as hierarchy, composition, color theory and typography. There is some book work involved, however this allows students to test their skills and knowledge in realistic projects such as poster designs, rebranding, photography and other exciting design projects.

Digital Media 2

In this course students continue learning about digital design using Adobe Illustrator CC, which is a vector graphics editor, and have the opportunity to gain Adobe ACA certification in Illustrator CC. With this program, students will have the opportunity to create logos, icons, typography, drawings, and illustrations for web, video, print or mobile multimedia outlets. Students will also begin learning Adobe InDesign CC, which is a publishing and typesetting software application, and will start to use these 3 Adobe programs (Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign) simultaneously to complete challenging realistic projects. Students are expected to expand their knowledge of design principles learned in Digital Media 1 as well as learn to write and proof read their own copy for their projects.

Digital Media 3

The year begins reviewing all the Adobe InDesign techniques that were learned the previous year. The lessons for this Adobe program is wrapped up by completing a magazine cover design and two-page spread design consisting of a feature article for the magazine. After taking the ACA InDesign certification exam, students then spend the remainder of the year learning video editing concepts with Adobe Premiere Pro CC along with an introduction to Adobe After-Effects. Students prepare projects such as music videos, photo montage, commercials, interviews/biographies, instructional videos, advocacy videos, etc. In the spring, students also take the ACA Premiere Pro certification exam.

Digital Media/Motion Graphics Production

This year consists of a full year of learning how to prepare graphics for animation, video editing, and video post-production. Students prepare an electronic portfolio consisting of projects they have completed throughout their four years in the Academy, their resume, writing samples, career goals, etc. The ACA After Effects certification is the final certification that students receive through the Academy.