This program provides an introduction to digital media production with a focus on electronic music, podcasting, digital video, graphic design, VFX, photography, and emerging media (examples include animation, VR, apps for mobile devices and game design). The classroom environment provides a mix of drama, art, music, and technology. Students in this program engage in projects ranging from filmmaking to sampling music and ambient sound to syncing kinetic type to music and designing digital FX for an action sequence. DML is a project-based learning structure, where students work both independently and in groups on a variety of media projects.
Digital Media Lab is the place for those students who are interested in electronic music, podcasting, graphic design, video, FX, and emerging media.
National Technical Honor Society, SkillsUSA, and dual enrollment college credit opportunities through CCV: Introduction to Filmmaking, Audio, and Technology
• Actor
• Advertising producer
• Assistant Editor
• Assistant Photographer
• Cinematographer
• Digital Audio Technician
• Digital Graphic Artist
• Digital Imaging Manager
• Digital Video Editor
• Director
• Film/video editor
• Lighting technician
• Multimedia Designer
• Production coordinator
• Promotions specialist
• Public Relations Manager
• Radio DJ
• Runner, film/video
Jason has been teaching the Digital Media Lab since 2015 and is a certified CTE instructor. Jason has masters degrees in Education (M.Ed, University of Arkansas, Little Rock), and Advertising (MA, The University of Texas), and bachelor degrees in Creative Writing and Media Arts (BA, Bennington College) and Psychology and Marketing (BS, Easter Michigan University). In addition, Jason taught field and studio production at Tualatin Valley Community Access (TVTV) in Beaverton, OR. He also taught English and Broadcasting at Dunbar Middle School in Little Rock, AR, where his students participated in the PBS Student Reporting Labs with schools from across the country. Jason also serves on the Regional Education Television Network (RETN) board, and was the former film programmer for the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival.
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Mr. Raymond’s Digital Media Lab classroom, and students in his after school program, Electro Hip Hop Club are highlighted in this Education Week article. “New