DPI THE COMMUNICATIONS CAREER CHANNEL
Developing the next generation of digital media creators through mentoring & experiential learning
Brown DPI Communications Bag TV overview Career Channel • An educational program • Connecting selected student participants • To employment opportunities • In the digital media communications industries
Brown DPI Communications Bag TV overview Career Channel • A program designed to expose its students to: • Mentors • learn-by-doing experiences
• To help prepare them to pursue entry-level positions in broadcast, digital media creation, production and more • Through a curriculum designed to meet California state education certification requirements.
Brown Foundation Dakar Bag TV overview • Being developed and will be administrated as non-profit undertaking • By Dakar Foundation, a 501(c) organization • Dedicated to helping underserved student populations get opportunities to successfully compete for employment
Brown The Students Bag TV overview • Dakar will source students from its database of 900,000 LA/Orange County community college students, and from 200,000 SOCAL CSU’s • Based on its relationships with Los Angeles Community Colleges and Education Consortium, and the CSUEA • Dakar will source students who: • have shown promise in digital media, broadcasting, and communication • come from underserved, represented and appreciated communities • are facing economic challenges in completing their education and career preparation
Brown The Mentors Bag TV overview • An assembled consortium of highly established professionals & academics • Committed to mentoring the DPICCC participants • Through lectures, seminars, and hands-on workshop learning experiences
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Cuales Lai Piersimoni Donner Mouangsavanh Glass Tucker Narayan Lockhart Nelson Cohen Watkins
Brown The Industry Bag TV Partners overview • A consortium of top industry and academic organizations • Who have expressed commitment to providing learning infrastructure (equipment and platforms) and opportunities
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USC Creating Reality Hack Hart-Beat Studios Sony DMPC USC ICT AT&T El Segundo Digital Hollywood AT&T SHAPE
• HTTPS://SILOCLOUD.COM/
Brown DPI Channel Bag TVExperience overview A combination of mentoring & media production activities:
Brown DPI Channel Bag TVExperience overview A combination of mentoring & media production activities: • Bi-weekly basis (twice a week), mentor seminars, e.g.: • How to prepare to pursue a career • resume and portfolio planning, networking, interviewing skills)
• building specific digital-media oriented skills • • • • • •
concepting and pitching production management Scriptwriting video production Campaign design web and app design
Brown DPI Channel Bag TVExperience overview A combination of mentoring & media production activities: • Production teams, each working to: • Develop and execute small-scale digital media virtual productions • Based on industry events • Under guidance of selected mentors • And with access to established online training programs
Brown DPI Channel Bag TVExperience overview A combination of mentoring & media production activities: • Production teams, each working to: • Develop and execute small-scale digital media virtual productions • Based on industry events • Events subject to industry events that occur during the program’s duration • Based on Dakar’s extensive established relationships with industry and academic organizations • Examples include Digital Hollywood’s Silicon Beach and CSUEA’s -Pitch fest.
Brown DPI Channel Bag TVExperience overview A combination of mentoring & media production activities: • Production teams, each working to: • Develop and execute small-scale digital media virtual productions • Based on industry events • Topics focused on career preparation, development and related industry insights • Even as they learn to produce, and so gain skills that increase their employability, what they produce will be about how to increase employability
Brown DPI Channel Bag TVExperience overview A combination of mentoring & media production activities: • Production teams, each working to: • Develop and execute small-scale digital media virtual productions • Based on industry events • Topics focused on career preparation, development and related industry insights • “Thesis”/portfolio pieces • Can also be leveraged as actual digitally distributed content, e.g. to audience of community college students - sponsorship opportunities for organizations seeking exposure to those audiences in sync with career-development themes
Brown Bag TV Certification & Opportunities overview • Students’ participation will be certified training • In collaboration with ICT, Dakar will develop a curriculum that conforms with California state education guidelines • Dakar’s industry partners will offer selected participants opportunities to apply and interview for intern and entrylevel positions
Brown Bag TV overview Formats • Exclusively remote • Seminars over digital channels, e.g. Zoom, SiloCloud, a digital distribution and community platform • Able to share digital content internally & across other channels include social, YouTube and more • A “digital campus” where students will connect and collaborate on their productions
Brown Pilot Program Bag TV overview • DPICCC is flexible, to fit available: student base, mentors and support organizations, industry events • Dakar proposes an initial pilot version of the program: • 20 students • Guided by 30 mentors • 8 Modules over a 2- month period • Content production based on one industry event
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