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 | |
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.View this program
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.View this program
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.View this program
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.View this program
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.View this program
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.View this program
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.View this program
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.View this program
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.View this program
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.View this program
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.View this program
Events
SCAD Performing Arts Department Presents "The Dream" By Vincent Brosseau
Feb. 09, 2012 - Feb. 12, 2012
SCAD Tech Pro Expo
Feb. 10, 2012
News
- Jan. 24, 2012
SCAD Atlanta hosts Global Game Jam 2012 - Jan. 24, 2012
Free discso concert by Performance Ensemble - Jan. 20, 2012
Attend "The Dream," a multimedia dance piece - Jan. 09, 2012
SCAD presents college advertising competition
Recognition
- Carson wins Best Technical Design award
- SCAD finalist in ImagiNations competition
- Digital Kitchen hires Santillan Lopez
- Six nominated for 2012 Golden Reel Award
Related Links
- Academic Policies
- Art History of Games
- Collaborative Learning Center
- Game Developers eXchange
- General Safety Rules Governing Stage, Film, TV Production Crews
- Inspire Motion Graphics and Media Art Symposium
- SCAD In Your Area
- SCAD eLearning
- SCAD.tv
- Savannah Film Festival
- Trustees Theater
