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Digital Media Production
The Dordt College Communication Department offers state-of-the-art facilities for training students to become film makers and communicators in today's world. Real-world clients and hands-on instruction-coupled with Dordt's excellent Christian education-means that our graduates will leave Dordt with the ability to think critically about issues in today's world, and with marketable skills in visual communication. 
With this major, you'll learn all the elements of pre-production, production and post-production. You'll learn how to conceptualize an idea, to write a script, to light, audio, shooting, working with talent, and of course editing. Dordt is on the cutting edge of technology with its brand new Avid lab. Avid is the industry standard for cutting film and video. Ninety percent of what you watch on TV and in the theatres is cut on Avid. Dordt offers an entire Avid lab for you to learn the art of film/video editing, ensuring that you'll have marketable skills when you leave here. But Dordt takes it one step further. 
Instead of each Avid editing system locked to one computer and hard drive, Dordt's Avid editing stations are all tied into an Avid Unity LANshare. What this means is you experience the ultimate in collaborative film making. Let's say we shoot a project and come back with 15 hours of raw footage. Instead of putting pieces of that footage onto separate computers, we put it all into the LANshare. Now, each student on each Avid editing system can draw from the same footage at the same time and all work on the same project at the same time! That's how Hollywood does it, and that's what you'll learn at Dordt. It's something you won't find at a lot of major colleges and universities. The Public Square October 31, 1517 was probably a very cool day in Wittenberg, Germany. A monk named Luther nailed some papers to the door of the Castle Church and the Reformation was born. How could a global movement begin with papers tacked to a wooden door? The doors of that church faced the public square in Wittenberg. In 1517, people went to the public square to get their news, information and the latest gossip. To be heard then, you went to where the people were. Luther knew exactly what he was doing. The public square today is the media. People gather before their TVs, in their movie theatres, before their flat-screen monitors and before printed pages delivered to their homes to get their news, information and latest gossip. A modern-day Luther would post his 95 theses on the internet, appear on Oprah, produce a DVD, start a podcast with accompanying blog and buy space in People magazine. Media is the public square today. For those who want a taste of Hollywood, Dordt offers a Senior Semester Program at the Los Angeles Film Studies Center (LAFSC). You'll spend an entire semester learning with other students, and working in an internship set up with your interests in mind. You could be on the lot of Fox Studios, Warner Bros, etc. For many, this semester leads to contacts that lead to careers. For others, a semester in Hollywood is a fascinating experience, but they realize they would rather use their skills and abilities in another part of the country or world. 
At the heart of all your experiences and learning in Dordt's Digital Media Production courses is the reality that we serve a living God and that this powerful form of communication can be used to bring Him glory and to help advance His Kingdom. While so much of the media we consume today is full of empty calories, we at Dordt College love to talk about producing Content Worth Consuming. We hope you'll check out our program. We hope you'll join us in our exciting venture here at Dordt College.
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