In the New Media Arts Apprenticeship, students examined a community issue--community relations and police brutality--that EVC youth documented over the past 30 years, and learned to use both emerging and industry-standard software applications as tools to create a current analysis/critique of that same issue today. 

Participants remixed archival social justice footage and designed a collective transmedia site. Students learned basic media applications including: 

 

•      Basic video editing software (Adobe Premiere)

•      Basic imaging software (Adobe Photoshop)

•      Website development (WIX)

•      Web Based tools such as Bitstrips.com and befunky.com  

 

Additionally, students documented their process through the development of their own online digital portfolios using WIX web-design platform. Throughout the apprenticeship students learned peer teaching techniques including how to develop and facilitate lesson plans.  

 

This apprenticeship gives students a strong advantage in gaining acceptance to, and graduating from, college-level digital media programs; provide them with an understanding of the community-based applications of these skills; and give them marketable career-ready skills that are in great demand in the media and technology industries.