School of Film, Digital Media and Performing Arts


Digital media is fast becoming the pervasive means of communication for both popular culture and artistic expression. The proliferation of Internet and mobile content, digital storytelling and interactive experience points to an increasingly digital communication future. Throughout the SCAD School of Film, Digital Media and Performing Arts, the educational model emulates professional experience. Students work with current, industry-standard hardware and software, learn from faculty who are practitioners as well as mentors, and have opportunities for collaboration. Courses enhance and facilitate creative expression while emphasizing vital production skills and techniques.

2010 School of Film, Digital Media and Performing Arts advisory board members:
              
Scott Ross
Producer, Founder of Digital Domain, Chair of Advisory Board
Steven Chiang
President of Development, Zynga Studios
Marilyn Friedman
Head of DreamWorks Outreach
Doug Grimmett
Founding Partner and Creative Director of Primal Screen
David Ladd
Actor/Producer
Carl Ludwig
Founding Partner, VP and CTO, Blue Sky Studios
Walter Murch
Film Editor, Sound Designer, Author
Jules Roman
President/CEO Tippett Studio
Stratton Leopold
Producer
Phil Tippett
Animator, Director, Founder of Tippett Studio

   
Peter Weishar
Dean of Film, Digital Media and Performing Arts
Josephine Leong
Associate Dean of Film, Digital Media and Performing Arts
Mathew Maloney
Associate Dean of Digital Media, SCAD Atlanta

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Animation

Animation professionals employ their craft in film, television, Internet media and video games, combining artistic vision and technical mastery to bring artwork to life. They are knowledgeable about the theories associated with the medium as well as its contemporary context and history.
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Dramatic Writing

Dramatic writing is storytelling at its most elemental. Writers learn the crafts of playwriting and screenwriting and create scripts for live performance, film, television, animation and more. Before the rise of the first curtain, before the first fade-in, a dramatic writer develops the characters, actions and dialogue that make stories worth watching.
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Equestrian studies
 

Equestrian Studies

Professionals in the equine industry use specific skills and apply principles of horsemanship and standards of equine care and performance within the equine industry and management of equestrian-related businesses or events.
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Film and television
 

Film and Television

Professionals in film and television combine excellent communication skills with an academic background in multimedia, art, design, broadcasting and film to create messages through various materials and media.
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Interactive design and game development
 

Interactive Design and Game Development

Professionals in interactive design and game development fuse artistic and technical knowledge to design and develop digital and non-digital games, rich-media Internet and mobile applications, virtual and physical computing environments, and emerging forms of human/computer interaction.
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Motion Media Design

Motion media designers work at the intersection of the on-air promotion, advertising, and content production industries and kinetic abstract art. They craft communications using the principles and tools of the filmmaker, the graphic designer, the animator and the interactive media designer. Their time-based work creates an illusion of motion and transformation.
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Performing arts
 

Performing Arts

Performing artists work in multimedia entertainment, television, film and stage, and perform in a variety of roles associated with acting, playwriting, casting, directing and management.
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Production Design

Production designers provide visual and physical context and support to the storytelling function of all performance and presentation media, including film, television, video, live event, live performance and digital media. Production designers are in demand in the expanding fields of visual programming for video, cable outlets, broadcast networks, independent filmmaking, digital video production, theme parks and other entertainment venues.
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Sound design
 

Sound Design

In the professional field, sound designers, composers and mixers develop soundtracks for all types of media. Sound editors work specifically with dialog, sound effects and Foley. Composers, music editors and music supervisors develop legal scores. Re-record mixers prepare dialog, music and SFX stems for a variety of release formats.
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Television Producing

The role of the television producer is to coordinate and control all aspects of production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking. It is often the producer who is responsible for the show's overall quality and ability to survive, though the roles depend on the particular show or organization.
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Visual Effects

Visual effects artists are experts in believable illusion who create images that are impossible to shoot in the real world. As members of motion picture, television, animation and emerging technology production teams at studios large and small, visual effects artists enable filmmakers to achieve their most ambitious visions.
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