Students were busy this year with digital filmmaking, documentary projects, and creating soundscapes for Vermont Public Television’s Downton Abbey event. Below, Brian Culmo ’15 and Professor David Lustgarten discuss design solutions to reusing the former Moran Plant.
Once admitted, students in Digital Filmmaking and other CCM majors spend their next four years building a professional portfolio designed to get them a job. “Our program is going out of its way to make sure students who want to make a living as a writer have a professional portfolio to show. That’s one of the reasons that CCM overall does so well,� says Eric Ronis, assistant dean of the CCM Division and assistant professor of Communications.
Digital Art for Games CCM is thriving for a variety of other reasons, too. For one, the Game Design program was “early to the table and pretty developed in its collaboration production model,� which mimics the
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