DART 280 - Digital Arts as a Business3 Credit: (1 lecture, 2 lab, 0 clinical) 3 Contact Hours: [Pre- or co-requisites: DART 250 , DART 270 and MGMT 235 ] In this capstone course, students will integrate fundamentals and techniques learned in previous courses into a career or business. Students will prepare their portfolio/website for marketing, freelance, work for hire or opening a commercial media production up-start. Emphasis will be placed on portfolio preparation and execution, while learning how to be successful as a commercial artist. OFFERED: spring semesters
Course Goals/ Objectives/ Competencies: Goal 1: Examine existing portfolio
- Critique elements of student portfolio
- Select works for professional portfolio
- Rework elements for professional portfolio
- Create categories within professional portfolio
- Present portfolio for critique
Goal 2: Explore digital Arts as a business
- Examine the concept of residuals
- Examine the concept of self-promotion
- Create a fee schedule
- Analyze studio spaces
- Create studio layout
- Create an equipment list
- Improve personal branding
- Develop a professional website
- Examine fields of commercial photography
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