Video Excel in the field of video and time-based media with the resources and creative perspective that only a premier college of art and design can offer.
As a student in the Video major at CIA you’ll work in the traditional methods of video as well as in the software-generated or assisted techniques of image creation. Work with faculty who have proven success in video art as you develop projects that incorporate cinematography, sound, lighting, editing, photography, and animation. As a Video major you’ll experience a comprehensive range of challenges and approaches to working on the entire media-production pipeline, including the use of digitally-based art and design strategies, storyboarding, sequencing, concept mapping, acting, pre-production, and post-production. And we provide historical context to film—initiating discussion on the cultural and social impacts of video and digital media. Collaboration and team projects are a vital part of the studio experience at CIA. As a major within our Integrated Media Environment, Video students join our community of digital arts students. You’ll take core courses with students from other majors in the Environment and regularly exchange a variety of differing perspectives and techniques. These experiences build team skills integral to collaborative brainstorming, character design, narrative ideas, production, and presenting and critiquing project outcomes. 176 cia.edu/admissions
Built into our curriculum are many opportunities to work with professionals in the field and gain valuable professional skills prior to graduation. In addition to encouraging and facilitating students to submit finished work to film festivals throughout the world, CIA’s own annual E.M.I.T. Student Film, Video, and Animation Festival gives students the opportunity to show their work publicly. Plus you’ll be inspired by alternative and independent films at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, named by the New York Times as one of the country’s best repertory movie theaters. CIA Video major students will receive a personal computer with all needed software for the entire duration of their study as well as a studio space. We know that your major requires extensive technology use, so you’ll have access to more than just our state-of-the-art computer labs. With your ID card you can check out the latest equipment for digital video, lighting, and sound. And your projects will look professionally produced with the help of a green-screen Chroma Key studio area, two separate lighting and shooting spaces, and a sound recording studio.