Program Focus for New Media, Film, Television & Radio

New Media courses focus on new digital technologies as they relate to the sound and moving image of film, television, and radio, including:

• Nonlinear narrative theory and technique
• Computer graphics
• Two- and three-dimensional animation
• Multimedia network communications
• CD-ROM production
• DVD production

Film track courses:

• Survey the origins and development of motion picture art
• Analyze periods, genres, and styles of filmmaking
• Offer hands-on experience in film production technique

In production courses, students are introduced to the collaborative, creative process of filmmaking, with an emphasis on storytelling through a broad spectrum of aesthetic approaches. Student films produced in these courses are showcased in a campus film festival - Cinefest Fairfield - and are Web-streamed over the University's Web page.

Television track courses survey:

• The technological and stylistic history of the medium
• The particular visual and audio language of television texts
• The genres, narrative, and generic conventions of television
• Hands-on production experience designed to teach skills in studio and remote television production

In the production courses, students produce programs of a variety of familiar genres but are encouraged to push the creative boundaries of the medium. Student programs air on a regular nightly schedule on the HAM Channel, the student-broadcast television station, and are Web-streamed.

Radio track courses survey:

• The programmatic and technical development of the medium
• Sound development and recording techniques
• Broadcast production and management

Production courses contribute programming to WVOF, the University's FM station, and to its Web-streaming address.