Advanced Diploma in Filmmaking, Television & Digital Content Creation - Broadcast
Loyalist College of Applied Arts & Technology
Key Information
Campus location
Belleville, Canada
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
2 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
CAD 16,337 / per year
Application deadline
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Earliest start date
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Introduction
Create engaging content and deliver it through any medium. In this hands-on program, you’ll earn a full spectrum of skills ranging from television production and digital filmmaking to web streaming and interactive content creation. With access to digital cameras, audio, lighting, and grip equipment we enable Loyalist College students to tell stories with impressive production values and create meaningful work for their portfolios. Please note: Students will receive an Ontario College Diploma in Broadcasting – Television, Filmmaking & Digital Content Creation.
You will learn how to meet the needs of the television and digital media broadcast industry by applying industry-standard production equipment, using strategies that enhance work performance and:
- Operate industry standard production equipment, in-studio and on location, to create television, video, and/or web content for multiple platforms
- Keep current with the needs of the television and digital media broadcast industry using strategies that enhance work performance and guide professional development
- Plan and prepare interviews, scripts, and reporting content for use in television, video, or digital media productions
- Participate in marketing activities to promote independent productions and/or a station’s brand and products
- Evaluate the artistic and technical success of filmmaking and multimedia projects to build a toolkit of strategies to meet client and audience needs
- Conduct work safely in accordance with all applicable acts, regulations, legislation, and codes to ensure personal and public safety
Experiential Learning
- Participate in the planning and preparation of television, mobile, and/or web productions
- Monitor and maintain the technical quality of productions during recording and broadcasts using resources, equipment, and protocols
- Use business skills and accepted industry practices in the creation of television, video, and/or web productions
- Deliver television, video, and digital or web content via multiple platforms in formats that meet current broadcast industry standards
- Use creative solutions in filmmaking and multimedia projects to complete projects to client and audience expectations
Ideal Students
Is It for You?
You may enjoy broadcasting, television filmmaking, and digital content creation if you are the kind of person who:
- Gets excited about multi-platform content creation
- Enjoys working on short-term projects
- Likes to travel and work in a variety of locations
- Is available and flexible to work odd hours
- Keeps up-to-date with current industry equipment and new technologies
- Recognizes the importance of marketing, networking and relationship building, interacting and collaborating with other industry professionals
- Is a self-starter who enjoys being in control of their own earning potential and the other benefits that come with being self-employed
Admissions
Curriculum
First Year - Semester One
- Audio Content Creation 1
- Communication for Career Success
- Industry Focus 1
- Media Writing 1
- Multimedia Storytelling 1
- Visual Content Creation 1
First Year - Semester Two
- Audio Content Creation 2
- Ethics and Current Affairs
- Industry Focus 2
- Media Writing 2
- Multimedia Storytelling 2
- Visual Content Creation 2
- General Education Elective
Second Year - Semester Three
- Factual Entertainment Production 1
- Field Production 1
- Filmmaking and Commercial Production
- Indigenous Understanding
- Remote Event Production 1
- Studio Operations
- General Education Elective
Second Year - Semester Four
- Factual Entertainment Production 2
- Field Production 2
- Production Planning
- Remote Event Production 2
- Studio Production
- General Education Elective
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Gain the knowledge and skills needed to find employment in the motion picture and video industry:
- Videographer
- Assistant camera operator
- Camera operator
- Studio camera operator
- Television camera operator
- Video camera operator
- Broadcast technician
- Audiovisual (AV) technician
- Multimedia sound technician
- Post-production technician
- Sound technician
- Video and sound recorder
- Video recording technician
- Lighting technician
- Special effects technician
- Boom grip
- Camera crane operator