You will learn critical perspectives so that you can place media practices within a broad cultural and historical continuum of innovation.
We are educating future media artists and creators, which means developing professional production skills in a constructive and collaborative environment.
In small classes, you’ll explore a wide range of production topics. The skills you gain will help you take your creative work further as you learn to think about creativity as a way to communicate complex ideas. Class topics include creating nonfiction multimedia projects, production for small screens, public performance, mobile media, interactive media and web media.
Our production workshops and media labs offer hands-on experience with a variety of media tools, including hybrid workflows, large-scale video production projects and open-source programming. Off-campus, Boulder’s creative community, which includes many award-winning filmmakers and artists, provides opportunities to intern and network with experts.
Concentration Areas
The Documentary Media concentration in DCMP provides students with the foundation to engage with their communities and find their voices as nonfiction artists and media producers. This concentration focuses on hands-on instruction and encourages collaboration, introducing students to the theories, practices, and technologies associated with contemporary documentary media production. Students will learn how to implement techniques in the field to produce creative documentary projects and to develop an ethically informed, critically aware practice that harnesses the power of documentary media to build a better world.
Student Work Examples
Somos El Tule
By Evelyn Palma
Combustion
By Jay Hager
We see the future of immersive storytelling as an active, connected, social and presence-inducing experience. The Immersive Media concentration in DCMP is designed to introduce students to technologies and mediums of the future while providing a foundation for creative thinking, considerate design, aesthetic sensitivity and engaging storytelling. This concentration introduces students to new learning experiences through instruction and hands-on experience with the technologies and techniques necessary for producing meaningful and engaging immersive content. Students will learn to question and intervene in the designed spaces of immersive media with the goal of bringing critical awareness to their cultural, social and political impacts and significance.
Student Work Examples
Changing Perspectives
By Beau Evans
Ponder. An Ambisonic Augmented Reality Experience
By Bryan Chi Hun Lai
The Integrative Media concentration allows students to build their own concentration using aspects from some or all of the other four concentrations. This focus teaches students to engage an audience through visual storytelling using a variety of media tools, techniques and technologies.
Student Work Examples
Survival Kit
By Julia Merten
Rellenos
By Alexander Nowak
The Performance Media concentration is designed to introduce students to the history of media within live performance and provide opportunities to create a series of creative media works, both individually and collaboratively. Topics may include theatrical projection design, interactive media, video installation, dance for camera, documentation of live performance and performing with media in a live performance setting. Projects are hands-on, student-led works that critically engage questions of media technologies and the live-performing body.
Student Work Examples
World Around Us
By Xuejing Nancy Cao
Exploring Production and Documentation Through Musical Performance
By Gabriel Valentine
In the Sound Practices concentration, students learn the tools, techniques and technologies of sonic practices ranging from sound art to electronic music to podcast production. A focus on creating a practice of deep and critical listening and exposure to a diversity of sound practitioners challenges students to think creatively and conceptually about sound in order to broaden both their technological and conceptual understandings of sound and to enable them to engage constructively and creatively with sonic worlds.
Student Work Examples
Castle Memories
By Jake Trujillo
Spaced
By Kara Randall
Within these focus areas, there are a wide range of different topics, skills and experiences students can gain, including working with:
- Digital Photography
- Videography
- Location Sound
- Video Editing
- Electronic Music
- Web Design
- Creative Coding
- Media Installation
- Sound Design
- Digital Cinematography
- Scripting
- Projection Design
- Virtual Reality
- Physical Computing
- Augmented Reality
- A/V Signal Processing
- Media Controller
- and much more…
Minor in Media Production
Students majoring in any discipline may pursue a minor in Media Production in the Department of Critical Media Practices.