Advanced Filmmaking - Digital Content Creation

Advanced Filmmaking - Digital Content Creation

Take your filmmaking skills to the next level by learning contemporary digital content and interactive storytelling techniques to create productions for a range of audiences. Through integrated crew work, you will develop advanced skills in the pre-production, production, and post-production phases of content creation. Have freelancer or entrepreneurial aspirations? Want to work in the entertainment industry or with a media agency? Our faculty’s breadth of expertise will prepare you for success as you embark on your filmmaking journey and secure a four-week placement of your choosing.

First Year - Semester One

• Advanced Production Techniques 1
• Cluster-Based Production 1
• Major Production 1
• Specialization Production 1
• The Business of Content Creation 1

First Year - Semester Two

• Advanced Production Techniques 2
• Cluster-Based Production 2
• Field Placement
• Major Production 2
• Professional Portfolio
• Specialization Production 2
• The Business of Content Creation 2

Credential: One-year Ontario College Graduate Certificate

Experiential learning

Explore the basic aspects of interactive storytelling to create video productions for various audiences and effectively analyze issues and emerging trends affecting the evolution of film and digital content.

This hands-on, industry-driven program explores every aspect of filmmaking and digital content creation:

• Advanced camera equipment operation used in digital video and high-definition television (HDTV) production.
• Audio recording and post-production techniques for film, video, and digital content creation projects by professional standards.
• Development and evaluation of scriptwriting for film and digital content creation to meet project requirements.
• Creative leadership for feature films and digital content creation projects to meet client needs.
• In-depth knowledge and familiarity working with Adobe Creative Cloud products.
• Professional editing skills, digital file management, and organizational skills.
• Develop co-productions by domestic and international treaties.
• Identify and create grant and fundraising proposals for the Canadian and international film and television industry.
• Distribute completed projects via Canadian and international film, video, and web-based distribution systems.
• Planned, scheduled, budgeted, and managed location sites for various types of film and digital content projects by safety, legal and professional standards.

Find Your Career

In 2017 Statistics Canada estimated the digital economy was worth $109.7 billion (or about 5.5 percent of the entire economy) and that 886,114 people work in Canada's digital economy, a figure that grew by 40.2 percent between 2010 and 2017. Canada's digital economy is growing at a rapid pace, much faster than the rest of the economy, and is already a bigger staple than industries such as mining, forestry and oil and gas.

Gain the knowledge and skills needed to find employment in the motion picture and video industry:

• Film camera operator
• Motion picture camera operator
• Studio camera operator
• Sound effects operator
• Gaffer
• Director
• Assistant director
• Production manager
• Production department head
• Business operator