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ClassesThe DMA classes at West Bloomfield High School are Career and Technical Education (CTE). This means that your instructors are not only teachers, but have done this work professionally. This allows you to learn the most relevant information in this industry. These CTE classes prepare you for success in college by allowing you to experience some of the same expectations that you will encounter during your college experience. We also offer articulated college credit. Please speak with an instructor for more information on which colleges we articulate with.
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Digital Media Arts |
This course provides students with the opportunity to gain fundamental skills using digital tools for film/video, animation, photography, and graphic design in a project-based, hands-on environment. Using industry standard equipment and professional software, students will create digital content that includes short films/trailers, public service announcements, TV/radio broadcasts, stop-motion animation, film posters, and much more. There will be opportunities to learn from current industry professionals, take field trips to TV/radio stations, movie theaters, and colleges/ universities, and participate in various competitions.
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MultiMedia Production |
Multimedia Production is the journalism conglomerate of West Bloomfield, which encompasses the live news station, Laker Update, along with Spectrum, the student news magazine. Working for the student body, we provide news in all major formats: broadcast, web, print, and social media. Students will conduct interviews, write in a variety of journalistic forms, and produce content for multiple platforms. Students are expected to become analytical consumers of media and technology to enhance their communication skills. Students will create audio and video recordings, podcasts, interviews, commercials, public service announcements, online content, photos of events, written copy for web and print publications. Extra time, including some weekends and evenings, is required beyond the class time. Students interested in being apart of Multimedia Production need to have excellent time management skills, be able to meet deadlines, be comfortable speaking to people that they do not know, trustworthy, and responsible. An application for Multimedia Production is required, along with teacher recommendations. Multimedia Production is a yearlong class and students are expected to register for both semesters. This class may be repeated for credit.
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screenwriting |
Students will learn to write compelling screenplays that connect with
their audience’s emotions using various techniques that will allow
them to develop strong characters and well developed story lines.
Students will learn to observe life around them, drawing inspiration from their everyday
encounters and use these observations for the basis of their screen plays. Students will
learn appropriate vocabulary, grammatical usage, and
stylistic structures specific to this genre. Students will
also enhance their video production skills by utilizing the
production process and brining a select number of
screenplays to the big screen. This class may be repeated
for credit.
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This is a culminating STEAM capstone course for qualified students desiring occupational competencies for subsequent full-time employment or as a background for college. Students will develop and perfect skills in an instructor approved capstone experience. Students must have completed Digital Media Arts and Multimedia Production.
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