Digital Filmmaking
Overview
Media That Matters
The Practicum gives students access to a hands-on experience with a non-profit organization working to make a difference. Based on the premise that media matters, the Practicum is designed to empower students to complete a real-world project, while developing a network and a portfolio that will serve them professionally.
CDIA’s Digital Filmmaking Practicum offers students the chance to work with a non-profit organization to create a documentary-style video. Under the direction of a faculty advisor who is a working filmmaker, Digital Filmmaking students work in small crews to complete all aspects of production. This opportunity allows the student to leave CDIA with a finished project on their reel, and experience the dynamics of a real-world production.
The Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University is committed to creating an environment where students use digital media to enrich the community. CDIA’s Digital Filmmaking students have partnered with dozens of organizations in Greater Boston and beyond.
CDIA’s Digital Filmmaking Practicum offers students the chance to work with a non-profit organization to create a documentary-style video. Under the direction of a faculty advisor who is a working filmmaker, Digital Filmmaking students work in small crews to complete all aspects of production. This opportunity allows the student to leave CDIA with a finished project on their reel, and experience the dynamics of a real-world production.
The Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University is committed to creating an environment where students use digital media to enrich the community. CDIA’s Digital Filmmaking students have partnered with dozens of organizations in Greater Boston and beyond.
Featured Partner Projects
MassWildlife
MassWildlife's charge is the stewardship of all wild amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, and freshwater and diadromous fishes in the state, as well as endangered, threatened, and special concern species. CDIA’s DF Program’s Associate Director Howard Phillips and a crew of students partnered with MassWildlife’s Turtle Conservation Program to produce a documentary video that will be used to help educate children across the state about the threats that endanger turtles. The video will be distributed in Spring 2007 to schools
statewide.
Community Boating Inc.
Community Boating's (CB) program is the largest, oldest, and best public sailing program in the United States. CDIA students worked with Director Franco Sacchi to create a documentary video to promote CB’s program, and captured underwater footage to capture the experience of sailing on the Charles River. CB now screens the video everyday during the sailing season for students and volunteers. The video was recently purchased and aired by a satellite sailing network in Europe.
Homes For Our Troops
Homes for Our Troops, founded in 2004, assists injured service men and women and their immediate families by raising donations of money, building materials and professional labor and coordinating the process of building a new home or adapting an existing home for handicapped accessibility. Under the guidance of Director/Producer Al Viator, CDIA students partnered with HFOT to produce a 12-minute promotional video. Students participated in filming on location around the country, and the video will be distributed nationally.
MassWildlife's charge is the stewardship of all wild amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, and freshwater and diadromous fishes in the state, as well as endangered, threatened, and special concern species. CDIA’s DF Program’s Associate Director Howard Phillips and a crew of students partnered with MassWildlife’s Turtle Conservation Program to produce a documentary video that will be used to help educate children across the state about the threats that endanger turtles. The video will be distributed in Spring 2007 to schools
statewide.
Community Boating Inc.
Community Boating's (CB) program is the largest, oldest, and best public sailing program in the United States. CDIA students worked with Director Franco Sacchi to create a documentary video to promote CB’s program, and captured underwater footage to capture the experience of sailing on the Charles River. CB now screens the video everyday during the sailing season for students and volunteers. The video was recently purchased and aired by a satellite sailing network in Europe.
Homes For Our Troops
Homes for Our Troops, founded in 2004, assists injured service men and women and their immediate families by raising donations of money, building materials and professional labor and coordinating the process of building a new home or adapting an existing home for handicapped accessibility. Under the guidance of Director/Producer Al Viator, CDIA students partnered with HFOT to produce a 12-minute promotional video. Students participated in filming on location around the country, and the video will be distributed nationally.