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What is Digital Media ?
One of the greatest revolutions in entertainment and the exchange of information occured when sound and vision were stored digitally, on compact discs, DVDs and on computers. With the development of faster and more powerful computers with bigger and better memory, the way audio and video has been stored, used and exchanged has been completely changed. The phrase Digital Media covers the huge variety of forms the modern communications industry has developed over the last decades, indeed, over the last few years.
Most people in Ireland today carry a small and powerful computer around with them everyday - their mobile phone. At the very least this is probably also a radio, an MP3 player, a games console and an Internet device. The Internet is used not just for work or sending emails, but also for buying music and video, keeping in touch with friends or making new ones via on-line social networking sites, showing off our video clips and photos, giving our opinions with blogs or competing with somebody on the other side of the world in an on-line game.
All this is part of the Digital media realm and ITB's programmes in "Creative Digital Media" will prepare you well for a professional career in this exciting and rapidly evolving industry.
Why Creative ?
Most of us have probably taken thousands of digital photos on our phones or cameras, hoping to capture that perfect moment and send it to our friends, or took a video clip of something we thought was worth sharing with the world. But which photo is the best one, which video gets the viewers attention, which audio clip sounds the best ? How do you design your website to display all this information for the desired effect ? How do you judge ? This is the 'creative' element of the programme; students are taught to assess videos, images and sound for quality and impact on the viewer as well as technical merit.
They learn how to organise the layout of documents and websites to put across content for best impact. Beyond this, they will also unlock their own creativity and tap into their own store of ideas for developing significant digital media projects.
Our Students work can be viewed at www.creativedigitalmedia.ie
View our full range of full time and part time Creative Digital Media courses...
Full time Creative Digital Media course list
Part time Creative Digital Media course list
Career Opportunities
Employment opportunities exist in web development, animation, communications, multi-media design, e-commerce, education, games, media distribution, mobile media technologies, multimedia production to name a few.
If you want to become a website designer animator or a general digital media manager, then this is the course for you, especially if you could see yourself running your own business.
