BA: Media Production

The media production major at CMCI prepares aspiring artists for the creative, technical and collaborative opportunities demanded of today’s creators.

You will learn to engage creativity as a way of knowing and a means through which to communicate complex ideas as you develop your professional production skills.

Your courses will help you develop critical perspectives that place media practices within a broad cultural and historical continuum of innovation. In studio classes, you will explore a range of production topics through hands-on experience with a variety of media tools in our state-of-the-art lab facilities.

A slate of concentrations enable you to specialize in a particular practice area, or create a focus of your own.

Concentration Areas

The Documentary Media concentration provides students with the foundation to engage with their communities and find their voices as nonfiction artists and media producers. This concentration focuses on hands-on instruction and encourages collaboration, introducing students to the theories, practices, and technologies associated with contemporary documentary media production. Students will learn how to implement techniques in the field to produce creative documentary projects and to develop an ethically informed, critically aware practice that harnesses the power of documentary media to build a better world.

We see the future of immersive storytelling as an active, connected, social and presence-inducing experience. The Immersive Media concentration is designed to introduce students to technologies and mediums of the future while providing a foundation for creative thinking, considerate design, aesthetic sensitivity and engaging storytelling. This concentration introduces students to new learning experiences through instruction and hands-on experience with the technologies and techniques necessary for producing meaningful and engaging immersive content. Students will learn to question and intervene in the designed spaces of immersive media with the goal of bringing critical awareness to their cultural, social and political impacts and significance.

This track has been discontinued. The information below is only for students who enrolled before fall 2024.

The Performance Media concentration is designed to introduce students to the history of media within live performance and provide opportunities to create a series of creative media works, both individually and collaboratively. Topics may include theatrical projection design, interactive media, video installation, dance for camera, documentation of live performance and performing with media in a live performance setting. Projects are hands-on, student-led works that critically engage questions of media technologies and the live-performing body.

Students in this concentration learn the tools, techniques and technologies of sonic practices ranging from sound art to electronic music to podcast production. A focus on creating a practice of deep and critical listening and exposure to a diversity of sound practitioners challenges students to think creatively and conceptually about sound to broaden both their technological and conceptual understandings of sound, and to enable them to engage constructively and creatively with sonic worlds.

This option allows students to build their own concentration blending aspects of multiple practice areas. This focus teaches students to engage an audience through visual storytelling using a variety of media tools, techniques and technologies. Students interested in integrative media practices must submit a proposal for an individualized plan of study before advancing into this concentration.

Within these focus areas, there are a wide range of different topics, skills and experiences students can gain, including working with:

Digital Photography


Videography


Location Sound


Video Editing


Electronic Music


Web Design


 

Creative Coding


Media Installation


Sound Design


Digital Cinematography


Scripting


Projection Design


 

Virtual Reality


Physical Computing


Augmented Reality


A/V Signal Processing


Media Controller


and much more…


 

Minor in Media Production

Students majoring in any discipline may pursue a minor in Media Production in the Department of Critical Media Practices.

 

Media Production degree requirements

Looking for specific degree requirements or information about classes?

MDPD degree info

 

Need help or still have questions?

View the advising page for more information on applying, or contact CMCI Advisors via email.

CMCI Advisors
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University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder
College of Media, Communication and Information
Boulder, CO 80309-0478


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