About Digital Media
It’s hard to imagine another industry that is as hooked into our changing lifestyles as digital media. For creative types with an interest in technology, it’s where the jobs lie, and for creative types who don’t have an interest in technology – well, it’s still where the jobs lie.
The post-network era gives a lot of prevalence to the digital media-maker – the kind of practitioner who uses great design to visualise information and make media which responds to its consumer. We’ve seen newspapers become interactive hubs and scheduled television morph into on-demand videos. Radio is created for downloading, not transmitting; Scrabble is played across time zones; magazines are designed for phones – in the digital sphere, media has completely converged.
It shouldn’t be too surprising. Since the invention of Pong, entertainment and computers have been inseparable, and even more so now – over half of us admit to media multitasking while we’re watching television at home. With such an appetite for digital consumables, designers and producers need to know their craft.
Potential digital media career outcomes include: 3D Modelling Professional, Assistant Animator, Assistant Designer, Digital Media Programmer, Digital Media Developer, Website Developer, FX Artist, Game Artist, Game Developer, Lighting Artist.
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Design practice has expanded to include game design, digital video, modelling and imaging, and visual effects. It has responded with relish to technological developments such as mobile technologies and 3D software and is bound to continue to be as dynamic as ever-advancing technology allows it to be.
If you’re interested in generating ideas in new ways, then you can go a long way by gaining a suite of professional digital media skills. Many courses offer a grounding in design culture and theory and the basic skills of storyboarding and typography, coupling these foundations with the latest in game design, video production, visual effects and interactive media. Whether you want to create games, work in advertising, or tell interactive stories – this is where the future is.
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