Multimedia

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9th Grade

Academy: Multi-Medium Foundations

The Arts, A/V Technology & Communications Career Cluster includes occupations and careers in designing, directing, producing, exhibiting, performing, writing, publishing multimedia content, including visual and performing arts and design, journalism, and entertainment serves. Multi-Medium Foundations, the first-year course for Multimedia majors, introduces students to the elements and principles of visual design and the tools and techniques needed to create a variety of projects. In this introductory course, students explore the roots of a variety of art mediums and the technical programs that give artists the tools they need to create. They learn the aesthetic/creative and technical aspects of the art form in a supportive and collaborative environment that promotes cooperation, mutual respect, personal creativity, and technical learning.

By the end of this course, students will master the fundamental base skills of working with mixed media materials and technology including cameras, lights, sound, Adobe Creative Cloud programs (Premiere, After Effects, Photoshop) and Soundtrap/Soundation music software. Creative projects, workplace simulations, work-based learning trips and masterclasses with guest artists and industry specialists provide opportunities to explore possible career pathways in the arts and production.

Throughout their Multimedia careers, students are expected and encouraged to develop their own artistic voice and vision, master the tools and techniques of their intended profession, manage their time and materials efficiently, collaborate with directors, designers, co-workers, and clients, as an effective, supportive, enthusiastic member of their VPA arts community and production company. In Multi-Medium Foundations, students begin to discover and express their personal vision and find their own voices as digital artists, mixed media artists, cinematographers, editors, motion graphics specialists, sound designers, lighting designers, production managers, and more. Students will begin to build a portfolio of work for future use.

Core Courses:

• English 9
• Algebra I, Geometry, or Algebra II
• Biology
• Health and Physical Education 9
• World History
• World Language
• Financial Literacy/VPA Elective

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10th Grade

Academy: Sight, Sound & Storytelling

The Arts, A/V Technology & Communications Career Cluster includes occupations and careers in designing, producing, exhibiting, performing, writing, and publishing multimedia content, including visual and performing arts and design, journalism and entertainment services. Students gain experience and proficiency through projects, workplace simulations, master classes with guest artists and industry specialists and work-based learning trips. They learn the aesthetic/creative and technical aspects of a variety of art forms (sound, storytelling, documentary, abstract & narrative filmmaking, photography) in a supportive environment that promotes cooperation, mutual respect, personal creativity and technical learning.

Students express their personal vision and find their own voices as artists as they explore using their voices across different art mediums. Students discover that the art of storytelling involves not only operating technology programs and equipment but also solving visual, dramatic, technical and aesthetic problems to develop characters and mood, affect audience response and maintain narrative interest and unique perspectives. Throughout their Multimedia studies, students are expected and encouraged to develop their own artistic voice and vision, master the tools and techniques of their intended profession, manage their time and materials efficiently, and work as an effective, supportive, enthusiastic member of their art community.

By the end of Sight, Sound & Storytelling, students are able to analyze the structure and aesthetic attributes of digital media by professionals and peers, use camera/lighting/sound recording equipment safely and competently, understand the fundamentals of screenwriting, directing & editing, and develop technical and artistic skills needed to pursue occupational pathways in the film/video/creative art industry. Each students adds additional, more significant work, pieces to his/her multimedia portfolio, used for internship search and college applications junior and senior year.

Core Courses:

• English 10*
• Geometry*, Algebra II* or Pre-Calculus*
• Chemistry*
• Health and Physical Education 10
• US History I*
• World Language
• Financial Literacy/VPA Elective

*Honors courses available and determined by grades and teacher recommendation

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 11th Grade

Academy: Media Studies & Exploration 

The Arts, A/V Technology & Communications Career Cluster includes occupations and careers in designing, producing, exhibiting, performing, writing, and publishing multimedia content, including visual and performing arts and design, journalism and entertainment services. Students gain experience and proficiency through projects, workplace simulations, master classes with guest artists and industry specialists and work-based learning trips. They continue to learn about aesthetic/creative and technical aspects of digital media and art in a supportive environment that promotes cooperation, mutual respect, personal creativity and technical learning.

The course of Media Studies & Exploration emphasizes several interrelated approaches to the study of media: multidisciplinary perspectives derived from the arts, humanities, and social and natural sciences; the historical study of various forms of communication and the representation of knowledge; theoretical and critical inquiry into how media shape our understandings of reality; the dynamic interrelationship of media industries, policies, publics, cultural texts, and communications technologies; examination of global media, including non-Western, indigenous, and oppositional media forms and practices; and practical work in media production and the use of media technologies. A central goal of the program is that all majors develop familiarity with the breadth of these approaches.

Media Studies encourages the understanding and critical evaluation of new and old media technologies; the centrality of media in politics, economics, social life, and global and local culture; and the contemporary and historical impact of media on individuals and societies. "Media" includes all forms of representational media (oral/aural, written, visual), mass media (print, television, radio, film), new media (digital multimedia, the Internet, networked media), their associated technologies, and the social and cultural institutions that enable them and are defined by them.

Multimedia students are expected and encouraged to develop their own artistic voice and vision, master the tools and techniques of their intended profession, manage their time and materials efficiently, and work as an effective, supportive, enthusiastic member of the MCST arts community. Throughout Media Studies & Exploration, students hone their individual voices as artists and dive deeper into project-based independent study in an area of special interest related to their collage and/or career plans. As a result, students will create complex, challenging design pieces and further develop and refine their individual portfolios.

Core Courses:

• English 11*
• Algebra II*, Pre-Calculus*, Calculus
• Physics*
• Health and Physical Education 10
• US History II*
• World Language
• Elective

*Honors courses available and determined by grades and teacher recommendation

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12th Grade at MCST

Career and Technical Education (Academy):

• Career and Technical Education Elective (i.e. Virtual Enterprises International, Computer Science Principles, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles)
• Independent Study
• OR CCM for Academy coursework

Structured Learning Experience (Graduation Requirement):

• All Seniors must complete 120 hours of an approved internship in their respective career field.

Core Courses: 

• English 12* (required)
• Health and Physical Education 12 (required)
• Calculus, Statistics, Foundations of College Math
• Environmental Science, Anatomy and Physiology I
• World Language*

*Honors courses available and determined by grades and teacher recommendation

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12th Grade at County College of Morris

Eligible Seniors may complete their Senior coursework in full or in part at County College of Morris. See School Counseling Department for more information.

Required Courses:

FALL

• English Composition I (ENG111)
• Lifetime Wellness (HED128) or PE (labeled HES)
• Academy Course (1)

MED 113 Multimedia II
MED 210 Digital Video Editing
CMP 108 Game Design Concepts
PHO 115 Photography I
COM 104 Interpersonal Communications
COM 109 Speech Fundamentals
CMP126 Computer Applications (all but CIS students)
CMP128 Computer Science 1 (all but CIS students)
BUS 112 Introduction to Business (all but FIB students)
ACC 110 Elements of Accounting (all but FIB students)

SPRING

• English Composition II (ENG112)
• PE or Lifetime Wellness (whichever was not taken in the Fall)
• Academy Course (1) (see above list)

*See Guidance (School Counseling) Department for additional information on CCM courses

Structured Learning Experience

• All Seniors must complete 120 hours of an approved internship in their respective career field.