Video and the Web

     Video and the web go hand in hand these days. My Degree is in Digital Media Production, which encompasses a number of mediums and genres. I’m fortunate to be one of the last students to earn this degree. The Art Institute, if I’m correct, isn’t offering it anymore. The new degree is called Digital Film and Video Production (DFVP), which sounds more appealing to high school kids who simply, “want to make movies” but the Art Institute has done away with all of the web classes for this new degree. I personally think this is a bad move because everyone knows that the web is the future and if you don’t know how to compress a video and build a web page to show your work on, you’re going to be passed up by those graduates who do. I’m glad I’ll be able to tell a prospective employer, “Web page….I can do that.” 

     In a production company, a client may want to not only have a video made, but also want other ways of delivery which many times includes building a web page to show their product or service. I’m sure when students in the DFVP degree enter the work force and find it harder to get a job due to their inexperience with the web, Ai will finally realize their fault.

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  1. Your attitude is positive and your vision of how the web participates in your world of video and other media works well for you.

    I would suggest you have a conversation with your colleagues who may not be getting into the web and share your thoughts and ideas. That is more constructive than whether the new program does or doesn’t offer web. I would think everyone has some electives if they choose it, and certainly in life we have choices to learn whatever is important to us!

  2. Thi

    Hey, it was a already made template :) I tried to modify it but you have to a paid account? Anyway, it’s really interesting that you’re a Video major. :) I didn’t know that DMP had to take Scripting!

    I do agree, don’t you think it’s more professional to have a client’s video / trailer / whatever on a well done website rather than just YouTube?

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