Digital Media
Join the Media Revolution!
As cultural shifts and societal norms evolve around us, the media landscape has certainly become a wonderland filled with opportunity and fraught with risk. The Digital Media program at Analy High School is geared toward satisfying two objectives for high school students as they move toward adulthood:
Media Literacy
Opening the eyes and minds of students to the role of media in society, focusing on its ability to influence as well as entertain.
Media Production
Providing the tools and techniques to allow students to create media that represents their unique points of view, using safe and supportive collaboration.
Increasing Media Literacy
The major goal of this particular area of practice is to provide a means for students to gain skill both in creating media, but also recognizing the ways in which the media that they consume is crafted and designed in order to influence as well as inform and/or entertain.
This program is lead by Randy Hall, who comes from the Sebastopol Center for the Arts (home of the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival) as well as teaching advanced digital media techniques at Santa Rosa Junior College.
The curriculum is divided into three major categories (with the hope that it will expand beyond these three):
- Basic filmmaking practice and basic media literacy (Montage, Commercials, Narratives, Documentaries, and so on)
- Live video production (performing and delivering content in real time to an engaged audience)
- Client-based projects (applying and integrating the tools and techniques of the earlier courses in a business context)
Students from this program have graduated and pursued careers in the movie, television and commercial media industries!
If you have questions or are interested in more information, don't hesitate to contact Mr. Hall at rhall.ahs@wscuhsd.k12.ca.us
What? Another Blog?
That's right, Randy has launched a blog for the Digital Media program here at Analy. Yes indeed, it's writing about filmmaking, and all the other stuff students do in the digital media realm at Analy.
If you're interested, you can check out Tiger Media Pulse.
Student-Centered Media Production
Basic Filmmaking
In this initial curriculum, we focus on core visual literacy concepts, while students participate in creating media projects in a variety of styles and genres.
- Montage
- Music Video
- Commercial/PSA
- Narrative
- Documentary
Live Video Production
As students progress through the program, they are able to learn the basics of live video production, including deadline-driven media creation for the school's long-running live video production Analy's It's Friday.
- Basics of live streaming
- Screenwriting
- Multi-camera video
- Program curation
Advanced Projects
As a final step in the digital media program, students are able to work on more advanced independent projects, as well as work with outside organizations and clients for media projects that bring impact to the community.
- Long-form film and video projects
- Creative briefs
- Transmedia