In the New Media Tools course, students will evaluate new-media tools along with past methods and media outlets. Students will examine these communication avenues and their effectiveness. Students will explore a variety of media used in digital and online environments to accomplish course projects and further their understanding of new-media tools, including images, text, and streaming video and audio. Students will gain an understanding of the unique possibilities and challenges of new media by learning the technology, techniques, and methods of storytelling on multimedia platforms. By studying examples of existing interactive programs, students will develop strategies to solve real-world problems, which will assist them in their future media careers.

New Media Tools

Learn about the wide variety of communication channels, tools, and techniques to prepare you to start creating your own media content.

The Multimedia Storytelling course introduces students to the creative structure of the visual medium. Students will learn the building blocks of visual storytelling, such as how to communicate moods, emotions, ideas, sounds, and scenery through props. In this course, students will learn how to represent the four-dimensional world through clear and evocative writing.

Multimedia Storytelling

Explore the building blocks of visual storytelling, as you learn how to communicate your ideas through clear and evocative writing.

In the Social Media Marketing course, students will explore how social media is an integral part of a successful marketing campaign. A progressive aim of any social media effort is to add value to the online community experience and to strengthen the brand&#39;s presence within these communities. Evaluating the consumer&#39;s mindset and altering the marketing efforts to match these demands completes this complicated task. Throughout this course, students will learn how to incorporate these methodologies into their marketing campaign to create a strong presence in online communities.

Social Media Marketing

Explore how social media can be an integral part of successful marketing campaigns, as you learn how to create a strong presence in online communities.

For content creators and social media marketers, there’s a vast world of information, metrics, and algorithms that can make getting started intimidating. This course stack will help you begin your journey with confidence by building a strong foundation in new media, visual storytelling, and social media strategy. You’ll learn to use technology, creativity, and critical thinking skills to navigate the complex landscape of content creation and social media.

Introduction to Content Creation & Social Media Marketing

This course stack will help you begin your journey as a content creator with confidence by building a strong foundation in new media, visual storytelling, and social media strategy.

The Literary Genre I: Comedy and Tragedy course introduces students to two fundamental traditions in media and literature. Through the study of a variety of modern works of comedy and tragedy, students will learn what moves an audience to laughter or tears. Character psychology and narrative structure are emphasized as students learn how humorous and tragic stories are developed. Students will work in teams, as well as directly with the instructor, to incorporate elements associated with comedy and tragedy in their own writing.

Literary Genre I: Comedy and Tragedy

Study a variety of modern works of comedy and tragedy, as you learn what moves an audience to laughter or tears.

The Literary Genre II: Horror, Mystery, and Suspense course introduces students to the conventions and techniques of horror, mystery, and suspense writing and the relevance of these styles to all forms of writing. Students will examine what drives mysteries, the tension that defines suspense, and the fear of death, failure, and the unknown that makes horror piquant. This course presents the works of key creators of these genres in media from the short story to the monster movie to survival-themed games.

Literary Genre II: Horror, Mystery, and Suspense

Explore the conventions and techniques used in these classic genres, as you learn more about the relevance of these styles to all forms of writing.

The Literary Genre III: Science Fiction and Fantasy course introduces students to the specific appeal and techniques of science fiction and fantasy, including hard science fiction, space opera, epic fantasy, speculative fiction, and alternative history. Students in this course will learn about the appeal of escapist fiction and how these speculative genres often shed light on human nature and the human condition in ways that are difficult to accomplish in more realistic genres. The tendency for games and comics to fall under the sci-fi and fantasy realm will also be examined.

Literary Genre III: Science Fiction and Fantasy

Explore the appeal and legacy of science fiction and fantasy - including hard sci fi, space opera, epic fantasy, speculative fiction, and alternative history.

In the Children&#39;s Entertainment course, students will learn about both classic and contemporary children&#39;s literature and its place within the context of writing for print, television, film, and animation. Students will also explore different avenues of publication and distribution.

Children's Entertainment

Learn about classic and contemporary children’s literature and how they’re translated into different contexts, including film, television, and animation.

Sharpen your storytelling skills, bring variety to your portfolio, or discover a new passion as you explore several writing genres. This course stack covers the ins-and-outs of important and influential writing genres, from comedy and tragedy, to science fiction, horror, mystery, and more. You’ll also get familiar with children’s entertainment and the variety of career opportunities in the industry.

Introduction to Genre Writing

Sharpen your storytelling skills, bring variety to your portfolio, or discover a new passion as you explore several writing genres.

The Television Writing course provides a challenging opportunity for students to adapt principles and concepts gleaned from previous writing courses to develop proficiency with the creative process used by professional television writers. Students are required to think visually in order to develop a workable premise for an episode of a current television series that will later be converted into a working script.

Television Writing

Learn to think visually as you develop a workable premise for an episode of a current TV series, then develop that idea into a working script.

The Scriptwriting Techniques course introduces students to the foundation of successful writing for film and television. Students will learn the fundamentals of formatting using industry-standard software, structural techniques, character development, conflict, and scene construction. The similarities and differences among formats will be evaluated, enabling students to make successful writing choices for each platform.

Scriptwriting Techniques

Build your scriptwriting skills in this course that covers the foundations of successful writing for film and television.

Whether you’re looking to tell a great story, learn the basics of writing a script, or get involved in the world of children’s entertainment, this comprehensive course stack can help you get started. These courses will give you a well-rounded look at various aspects of entertainment writing, from visual storytelling and television, to analyzing media and professional processes.

Writing for Entertainment Media

Explore the world of entertainment writing in a course that covers children’s entertainment, script writing for television, and techniques for multimedia storytelling.

In this course, legendary sportscaster Dan Patrick will take you through strategies for asking compelling questions, conducting a successful interview, and finding subjects that match your skills. Dan has built an inspiring four-decade career across the industry as a sportscaster and reporter on The Dan Patrick Show and SportsCenter’s Sunday Conversation on ESPN. He also has a wide range of experience going in-depth with personalities like Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Reggie Jackson, and Bill Murray.

The Art of Interviewing

Dan talks about his sportscasting journey and the strategies he uses to ask excellent questions.

Introduction

This section of the course teaches students about practical interviewing techniques, giving them insight into conducting their own interviews and analyzing their work.

What Makes a Good Interviewer?

Students explore the anatomy of an interview question, learn what types of questions yield the highest-quality answers, and discuss the role of AI in interviewing.

Topic and Demand

Students learn about the difference between open-ended and close-ended questions and explore different kinds of interview formats.

Open-Ended and Close-Ended Questions

Dan explains how to conduct thorough research and how to use that research to set an interview’s goal and structure.

Research

This section covers interview preparation from start to finish, including preparing your workspace; navigating the beginning, middle, and end of your interview; and the role of social media platforms in interviewing.

Prepare Your Space

Dan shows students how to course-correct when an interview goes off track, including how to conduct themselves in a professional manner and how to deal with nervous or angry subjects. Students will also record and share their own interviews.

Difficult Interviews

Legendary sportscaster Dan Patrick takes you through the strategies you need to ask compelling questions and conduct a successful interview, as he shares insight and experience gained over the course of his four decades in sports reporting and sportscasting.

Podcasts have become a cultural phenomenon, offering a unique platform for individuals and organizations to share stories, ideas, and conversations with the world. However, creating a successful podcast requires a producer who is confident in several skillsets. In Full Sail DC3’s Podcast Essentials: Production &amp; Editing Skills, you will work through the three stages of production to prepare, record, and edit a podcast that you can distribute and market to audiences. This course is for you if you’re eager to explore the art and techniques of producing compelling podcasts or expand your podcasting knowledge and experience.

Podcast Essentials: Production and Editing Skills

Students receive a general overview of the podcasting industry, outline podcasting production steps, and use storytelling concepts to draft a script.

Introduction & Podcast Pre-Production: Storytelling and Scriptwriting

Students learn about the hardware and software used in podcast production, set up their recording/filming space, and record their own podcast segment.

Podcast Production: Gear, Setup, and Recording

Students wrap up by practicing audio and video editing skills, examining common podcast distribution tactics, and developing marketing assets to promote a completed episode.

Podcast Post-Production: Editing and Distribution

This course focuses on the technical skills needed to produce and edit a podcast from start to finish.

Creating a successful podcast requires planning, production savvy, and an understanding of the business side of the industry. You’ll touch upon all of that and more in this Full Sail DC3 course. Featuring guidance from industry experts, this three-week class covers everything from scriptwriting and interviewing to audio recording, basic editing, and marketing. With hands-on projects, weekly feedback, and access to the DC3 online community, you’ll have all the support you need to unlock your creativity and build your own podcast.

The Podcasting Playbook: Craft Your Concepts into Episodes

The course’s instructors introduce themselves and go over what you’ll learn in The Podcasting Playbook: Craft Your Concepts into Episodes, and how to get the most out of this course.

Students discover the history of podcasting, podcast genres and formats, how to navigate hosting platforms and directories, and how to plan your podcast channel.

The World of Podcasting

Students learn about the podcast production process, including how to plan content, how to conduct interviews and write scripts, and recording and editing techniques.

Producing a Podcast Episode

Students wrap up by learning how to publish their completed episodes, market their podcast, use analytics, and how to potentially monetize their podcast through advertising, sponsorships, and more.

Publishing, Promoting, and Monetizing Podcasts

This course takes students through the podcast creation process by helping them plan, record, edit, publish, and promote their own podcast channel.

Whether it’s Westworld or Westeros, creating epic worlds on screen is a complicated job that balances technical know-how with industry nuance and creative vision. If you’re interested in pursuing a role in film production, you want to learn from someone who has done it – someone like Stephen Beres. He’s an Emmy-winning producer and technologist who has worked on some of television’s biggest shows, including HBO’s Game of Thrones, Westworld, and True Detective. In this course, Stephen draws from his years of experience to give in-depth insights into the visual language of film.

The Craft of Cinematography: Mastering Visual Language

Stephen introduces himself and goes over what students will learn in this course.

Students explore basic visual language concepts and learn how to identify visual language in movie scenes.

Critiquing Visual Language

Stephen shows students how to find sources of inspiration and how to use those sources to bring original ideas to the screen.

Communicating Visual Language Intent Through Inspiration

Students learn how to conduct camera movement tests and how to use the results to achieve their visual language goals.

Movement Test Analysis and Application

Students discover how camera dynamic range tests can help them determine the best camera to use for their preferred visual language.

Dynamic Range Test Analysis and Application

Stephen explains how to conduct mixed and available light tests on different cameras, and discusses how the test results can help build a film’s visual language.

Mixed and Available Light Test Analysis and Application

Students use provided footage to create and edit a reel that showcases their chosen visual language.

Putting it Together

Emmy-winning producer Stephen Beres takes you through techniques he’s used working on shows like Game of Thrones and Sesame Street.

Mixing music is an art form, and if you want to understand it, you need to learn from the best. That’s where Full Sail University Hall of Fame alumni Leslie Brathwaite comes in - he’s a mix engineer who has spent his career working with some of the music industry’s biggest names on some of their most iconic songs and albums. In this exclusive Full Sail DC3 course, Leslie takes you through what’s he’s learned along the way - like how to work with artists and producers, how to build up a mix piece by piece, and not only which tools Leslie uses for the job, but more importantly… why. It’s a hands-on tour through the craft of mixing, with one of the best to guide you.

The Craft of Mixing Hit Records

Leslie breaks down what you’ll learn in The Craft of Mixing Hit Records, and how to get the most out of the course.

Leslie covers the business end of mixing audio, including how a song is made, the chain of command at record labels, how to meet a client’s needs, and how to build a positive reputation.

The Business of Mixing

Leslie takes you through his studio setup and walks you through how he uses those tools to mix – from vocals and drums to plugin and reverb – while also showing you how to listen back to your work to see what else you need to do.

The Process of Mixing

Leslie demonstrates how to train your ears and use technical skills to create mixes that evoke emotions in the listener.

The Art of Mixing

Join Grammy-Winning Mix Engineer Leslie Brathwaite on a step-by-step journey through what he’s learned working with some of the music industry’s biggest names - like OutKast, Cardi B, and Pharrell Williams - on some of their most iconic songs and albums.

Designed for gamers, streamers, and esports players, Full Sail DC3’s Content &amp; Streaming for Gamers gives you a comprehensive look at content creation within the gaming industry while introducing you to content creation fundamentals. You’ll explore the process of developing content specifically for gaming and examine the importance of personal branding, networking, sponsorships, monetization, and legal considerations. Ultimately, this course gives you the knowledge and skills you need to get started in the dynamic world of gaming content creation.

Content & Streaming for Gamers

Students gain foundational knowledge of the gaming industry, explore the role of content creation within the industry, and learn about content creation equipment.

Gaming Content Creation

Students discover various gaming industry roles, identify different types of gaming content, and analyze the content styles of popular creators.

Industry Roles & Content Format

Students learn about creating a personal brand, building a professional network, and how to identify opportunities for sponsorships and monetization.

Branding, Networking, Community, & Sponsorships

In this section, students cover the content production process from start to finish and learn about techniques for publishing, promotion, and content performance analysis.

Content Production Phases & Analytics

Students learn about copyright, trademark, and intellectual property rights; explore contracts and negotiation techniques; and identify strategies to protect their brand.

Legal Considerations for Gaming Content Creators

This section discusses emerging trends and technologies in gaming content creation, including the role of AI, content considerations for collegiate esports, and more.

The Future of Gaming Content Creation

Get the tools to build a foundation as a content creator and streamer in the gaming industry.

Before a game is released to the public, it undergoes rigorous quality assurance testing to find and fix bugs. QA testers help spot glitches as well as evaluate other aspects of the game as a “first end user” (a player who hasn’t worked on or experienced the game before). QA Testing for Games, which was designed with direct industry feedback from professional developers like EA Tiburon, Epic Games, and Insomniac, covers the skills required to QA test games, from best practices and tools of the trade to career paths in QA testing.

QA Testing for Games

Students are introduced to quality assurance basics and become familiar with QA tools of the trade.

Students get familiar with the game they’ll be testing and learn how to find and report bugs.

Testing Cycle 1 – Alpha Build

Students create game test plans, learn about game testing life cycles, and playtest the game’s second build.

Testing Cycle 2 – Beta Build

Students learn how to create a dashboard in Jira, how to update their bug reports, and how to analyze their test plans.

JIRA Workflow

Students playtest the game’s final build, update their bug reports, and continue to analyze their test plans.

Final Testing Cycle

Students learn about the end of development cycles and QA best practices.

Closing a Development Cycle

This section covers possible career paths in the QA industry, from entry-level roles to project management positions.

Careers in QA

Learn the QA techniques, tools, and workflows used by companies like EA Tiburon and Epic Games.

It&#39;s no secret that the most exciting parts about esports are the intense competitions and epic victories. But to compete at this level, you need a well-coordinated organization that shares the same competitive fire. In this Full Sail DC3 course, we&#39;ll share the tools, knowledge, and strategies you need to start a scholastic or professional esports organization. Through practical hands-on opportunities, you will also learn how to manage the organization and build a competitive team.

The Esports Playbook: Team Business and Operations

The course instructors introduce themselves and go over the course resources and structure.

Course instructors cover the basics of esports organizations, including their purpose and history, the differences between scholastic and professional organizations, and the pros and cons of open ecosystem versus franchising in esports.

Introduction to Esports Organizations

Students learn the business and financial techniques needed to establish and structure an esports organization.

Organization Management

Course instructors cover topics like team assembly, team dynamics, and player development, as well as how to create schedules for streaming events and sponsorship campaigns.

Team Management

Students learn strategies to help their players maintain good mental and physical health, plus techniques for creating a smooth pre- and post-tournament experience.

Wellness and Tournament Management

This section covers strategies and tactics for creating a social media presence, how to make relevant content, and how to build a community for fan engagement.

Marketing and Community

Students learn how to monetize their esports organization with sponsorships, fundraising, and collaborations with other organizations.

Revenue Generation

This course teaches students the skills needed to launch and manage an esports organization at the scholastic or professional level.

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