SM Media
King's Page ~ SMTV ~ SM Yearbook ~ SM Sports Media
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SM Media offers students the opportunity to learn skills in digital arts, video production, and print production while being exposed to industry-standard technology and state-of-the-art digital tools. Our program encourages creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration through our three production teams while offering students certification programs and SBCC dual enrollment classes.
All of our programs offer dual enrollment credit with Santa Barbara City College. This credit is provided completely free as long as the student passes the class offered and registers during the window provided by the teacher.
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Skills Acquired
Skills Acquired
Earn Adobe Creative Suite Certifications.
Royal Report students develop, film, and broadcast a TV program.
Royal Report students create weekly taped broadcasts that are written, created, filmed, streamed, directed, and produced by a team of students each week.
Yearbook students design and create a yearbook publication called Crown & Sceptre that is sold and distributed to students and staff.
Yearbook students manage the marketing, sales, budget planning, customer relations, and all business aspects of the $120k program.
Journalism students create an online and in-print publication called the King's Page. Students publish articles weekly and a printed newspaper monthly.
Journalism students manage the marketing, sales, budget planning, customer relations, and all business aspects of the $20k program.
Digital Art students work independently and collaboratively throughout the course on a variety of assignments ranging from digital drawing, to creating product packages from scratch (designing a brand, the logo, specific products, a paper advertisement, and a presentation).
All three programs (Royal Report, SM Yearbook, and the King's Page offer opportunities for students to become editors and producers, developing their leadership skills.
Aaron White Photography
SM Yearbook
Kyle Durflinger Photography
SM Yearbook
Aaron White Photgraphy
SM Yearbook
Kyle Durflinger Photography
SM Yearbook
Student Leaders
Students in this pathway have opportunities to be leaders. All publications are open forums and are student-run. Student leaders attend trainings and conferences and are essential in running the publications. Decision-making, relationship management, team bonding, communication, and more are direct results of this group of leaders. Students demonstrate their interest in being leaders by actively participating in all of the opportunities provided and then applying to be a part of the team. Students are then interviewed and chosen to be editors or producers. Many of our student leaders have gone on to join college media programs and schools like UC Berkeley, Loyola Marymount, Northwestern, and other universities.
Student Testimonials
Journalism Student Testimonial
Journalism Student Testimonial
Yearbook Student Testimonial
Video Production Student Testimonial
SM Media Courses:
SM Media Courses:
Below is the pathway and the courses offered. Many courses will be SBCC dual enrollment courses
Meet the Instructors
Walt Bazylewicz
Digital Arts & Video Production Educator
Digital Arts ~ Video Production
I have been teaching art and media arts for 25 years and this is my 10th in the Santa Barbara School District. Over the years I have taught photography, video production, yearbook, digital art and several fine art classes. I have a BA in Graphic Design/Studio Art and a BA in Video Production/Telecommunication from Michigan State University. This is a very exciting time for media art at San Marcos as we launch this new pathway and we are committed to putting the newest technology into our students hands.
Lara Willbanks
Certified Journalism Educator
Yearbook Production ~ Media/News Production
I am in my 15th year teaching media and journalism at San Marcos High School. I have a B.A. in Political Science and an M.Ed from the University of California, Santa Barbara. I have received my certification in journalism education from the Journalism Education Association. I love teaching students design, photography, and news literacy. I advise the King's Page (school newspaper) and the Crown & Sceptre (school yearbook), and I enjoy helping students create and execute these publications. My students leave my classroom with real-world experience in publication design, news reporting, photography, and leadership.
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