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.

Student Work Examples

Somos El Tule

By Evelyn Palma

Combustion

By Jay Hager

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.

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Changing Perspectives

By Beau Evans

Ponder. An Ambisonic Augmented Reality Experience

By Bryan Chi Hun Lai

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.

Student Work Examples

World Around Us

By Xuejing Nancy Cao

Exploring Production and Documentation Through Musical Performance

By Gabriel Valentine

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.

Student Work Examples

Castle Memories

By Jake Trujillo

Spaced

By Kara Randall

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.

Student Work Examples

Survival Kit

By Julia Merten

Rellenos

By Alexander Nowak