Digital Cinema BA/BS - SOU Academic Programs
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Digital Cinema BA/BS
From pitch to popcorn, our students learn every stage of the visual storytelling process to bring their filmmaking dreams to life on screens of every size.
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Digital Cinema – Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Science
Digital Cinema, BA/BS
Offered as a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science Major
A degree in Digital Cinema from SOU offers visual storytellers the creative skills, technical immersion, and faculty mentoring they need to turn their ideas into compelling moving images in preparation for a wide array of media-making careers. Experiential classes give students ample on-set opportunities to put their understanding into action in a supportive environment where failure is celebrated as an integral stage of the learning process. We encourage our student filmmakers to chart new territory and create courageously, challenging themselves to push the boundaries of the possible.
Our small class sizes promote camaraderie and community among students, planting the seeds of an essential professional network and sharpening skills in collaboration and communication. Students engage in frequent peer feedback and peer mentoring, learning as much from one another as from their faculty, and develop the advanced group problem-solving skills necessary to a career in professional production.
Key Program Strengths
Audio/Visual Storytelling:
Our students learn to utilize the formal elements, principles, and structures of narrative to conceive and plan story ideas and translate those stories into compelling sounds and images, moving beyond technical competency into style, narrative logic, and aesthetic coherence. Story and craft are at the core of our technical instruction.
Technical Production Skills:
From day one in the Digital Cinema program, students work with and develop technical fluency in professional pre-production, production, and post-production tools, including camera, lighting, grip, and audio equipment, and software used in story development, pre-production, production management, and post-production. While tool mastery is important, we also know that rapid technology shifts are the norm in the media industries, so our students learn to teach themselves new tools as they progress through their careers.
Context & Inquiry:
Digital Cinema students develop critical thinking skills and an understanding of cinema production as an interdisciplinary art and business, informing their creativity through research, situating their work and the work of others within historical and cultural cinematic traditions and genres, and grounding their aesthetic, narrative, and technical aims in film and social theory.
Ethical & Sustainable Practice:
The Digital Cinema student code of conduct is the most rigorous at SOU. Our student filmmakers know that character matters and learn to make ethical decisions in difficult situations. Likewise, our program encourages green production practices that respect and preserve our natural world.
Professional Skills & Industry Readiness: Students enjoy frequent opportunities in their coursework to practice professional on-set behaviors in preparation for careers in film and video production. Our student filmmakers learn multiple crew positions, develop a diverse technical skillset, and are provided space to specialize in the areas of production that interest them most and best match their individual strengths. Regional production businesses and local media professionals offer students internships, mentorships, and apprenticeship opportunities where they can further develop their skills, resumé, and portfolio.
Ethical, Equitable, and Sustainable Practice:
Digital Cinema students adopt and adhere to ethical, equitable, and sustainable production practices that honor the dignity of individuals, respect public and personal property, and preserve and protect our natural world.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Degree Fit
Program Preparation
The Digital Cinema program is designed to meet every learner at their incoming level of experience. Students with no media production experience will jump-in with our Production Tools series of courses to get them up-to-speed with camera, audio recording, studio production, and editing software skills, while students entering with more experience in these areas can earn credit for prior learning and immediately move into more advanced production coursework. Any student with curiosity and tenacity has what it takes to succeed in Digital Cinema.
Degree Roadmap
This studio-intensive program is centered on faculty mentorship and collaboration amongst the student cohort. Every Digital Cinema student takes courses in storytelling, film history and analysis, foundational production skills, audio recording, lighting, cinematography, editing, media entrepreneurship or management, and deep professional immersion. Elective pathways include screenwriting, directing for the screen, documentary production, and virtual reality.
Guided Pathways
Contact:
Christopher Lucas –
541.552.6425
digitalcinema@sou.edu
Associate Degree Paths
Art, RCC
Art Interest, RCC
Communication Interest, RCC
Design and Digital Media, RCC
Digital Cinema Transfer to SOU, RCC
Visual Arts, Associate of Arts Oregon Transfer, UCC
Associate of Arts, Oregon Transfer, KCC
General Studies, KCC
Associate of Science, KCC
Digital Media Design, KCC
Similar Majors
Digital Cinema Production Arts, BFA
Emerging Media and Digital Art, BA/BS
Similar Minors & Certificates
Digital Cinema, Minor
Screenwriting, Minor
Similar Micro-Credentials
Broadcast News Production
Cinema Production Technology
Film Business and Management
Set Skills for Cinema Production
Story Development for Screenwriting
Sample Graduate Degrees
MFA, Film Production, Chapman
MFA, Film and Television, UCLA
MFA, Screenwriting, AFI Conservatory
Credit for Prior Learning
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Section Contents:
Digital Cinema Programs
Digital Cinema BA/BS
Digital Cinema Production Arts BFA
Digital Cinema Minor
Certificate in Animation & Motion Design*
Certificate in Cinematography & Production Technology
Certificate in Directing for the Screen
Certificate in Documentary Production
Certificate in Media Post-Production
Certificate in Producing & Production Management
Certificate in Scenic & Environment Design*
Certificate in Screenwriting & Story Development
Certificate in Sound Design*
Broadcast News Production Micro-Credential*
Cinema Production Technology Micro-Credential
Film Business and Management Micro-Credential*
Story Development for Screenwriting Micro-Credential
Set Skills for Cinema Production Micro-Credential
*The Certificate in Animation & Motion Design is housed within the Emerging Media & Digital Arts program; listed the SOU Catalog.
*The Certificate in Scenic and Environment Design is housed within the Theatre program website.
*The Certificate in Sound Design is housed within the Emerging Media & Digital Arts program website.
*The Broadcast News Production and Film & Business Management micro-credentials are housed within the Communications program website.
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SOU Digital Cinema Program
1250 Siskiyou Blvd.
Ashland, OR 97520
541.552.6425
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