Arts, Audio/Video Technology & Communications Cluster
Designing, producing, exhibiting, performing, writing, and publishing multimedia content including visual and performing arts and design, journalism, and entertainment services.
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Arts, Audio/Video Technology & Communications Programs
Audio Technology
Broadly, individuals that work in the AV communications industry manufacture design, install, integrate, operate and repair the equipment of audiovisual communications. They are involved in the presentation of sound, video and data to groups in such venues as corporate boardrooms, hotels, convention centers, classrooms, theme parks, stadiums and music recording studios. Students will also develop the technical skills to operate the equipment necessary to produce a finished audio product in both live performance and studio situations
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Design Communications
Visual artists create art to communicate ideas, thoughts or feelings. They use a variety of methods?painting, sculpting or illustrating?and an assortment of materials, including oils, watercolors, acrylics, pastels, pencils, pen and ink, photography, plaster, clay and computers. Their works may be realistic, stylized or abstract and may depict objects, people, nature or events. Visual artists are generally categorized in two groups. Fine artists create art to satisfy their own need for self-expression. Illustrators and graphic designers, on the other hand, put their artistic skills at the service of commercial clients, such as major corporations; retail stores; and advertising, design and publishing firms.
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Fashion Design
Fashion Design is the applied art dedicated to the design of clothing and lifestyle accessories created within the cultural and social influences of a specific time. Students will learn the basics of design for the creation of original garments, as well as those that follow established fashion trends. Students will gain knowledge of all work areas for apparel manufacturers, creating designs of men?s, women?s, and children?s fashions for the mass market.
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Graphic Communications
Students will learn practical problem solving for the printing, publishing, imaging, packaging and allied industries with hands-on experiences in the printing area and in the pre-press area of design. Students will also be developing innovative scanning and output technologies to create workflow solutions for the real world.
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Journalism and Broadcasting
News analysts, reporters and correspondents gather information, prepare stories and make broadcasts that inform us about local, state, national and international events; present points of view on current issues; and report on the actions of public officials, corporate executives, special interest groups and others who exercise power. Broadcast and sound technicians install, test, repair, set up and operate the electronic equipment used to record and transmit radio and television programs, cable programs and motion pictures. Chief engineers, broadcast field supervisors and transmission engineers supervise the technicians who operate and maintain broadcasting equipment.
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