Creative Media & Entertainment

Creative Media and Entertainment emphasizes the production process, from concept to completion. Through hands-on instruction and theory-based project management coursework students learn how to create and distribute their content via the web, through traditional media channels, in independent media, and in corporate settings.

Students explore the production of content for television, film, websites and interactive media. With studies in digital video production and editing, graphic design, animation, interactive media and web design, students develop a broad skill set and an understanding of both traditional and new media.

Rich media is an interactive blend of all communications disciplines. Students gain experience in this convergence of creativity and technology by learning in classrooms and labs equipped with the best and most current software and delivery platforms.

Emphasis is on the entire production process, from concept to completion. Through hands-on instruction and theory-based project management coursework, students receive a comprehensive education in this rapidly changing field. They learn to use industry-standard software, the techniques behind superior communications and entertainment and the keys to navigating the disciplines of emerging media.

Students with a passion for storytelling and communicating, and a talent for expressing themselves through visual media can find many rewarding professions. With student films, television programs and other collaborations, we emulate the modern media workplace and give students a solid foundation on which to build their careers.

COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION REQUIREMENTS

126 Total Credit Hours (Includes Butler University Core Requirements)

COM 101 Rhetoric and the American Democratic Tradition

SW 266-CCM Media Literacy

Foreign Language of Choice (3 credit hours at 204 level or above)

Communication & Culture course (selected from approved list)

Second major, minor or concentration area required

Description of Creative Media & Entertainment Major (CME) Major 45 Required Credit Hours

CME majors learn to be storytellers through recording, editing, and delivery of student produced audio/video and web-based content. They gain knowledge about entertainment media through the study of history, genres, authorship, and distribution in order to understand the production and business of entertainment media.

MAJOR REQUIREMENTS

CME 109 Fundamentals of Videography and Video Editing

CME 111 Introduction to Creative Media and Entertainment

CME 209 Basic Studio Production

CME 211 Authorship in Film and Television

CME 309 Documentary Production

CME 311 Genres in Film and Television

CME 315 Post-production Techniques

CME 409 Narrative Production

CME 411 Entertainment Criticism

CME 440 Internship

CME 457 Capstone

WDD 108 Multimedia Graphics

WDD 219 Design for the World Wide Web

WDD 306 Multimedia Design and Production

MI 452 Entertainment Media and the Law

Description of Creative Media & Entertainment (CME) Minor

CME minors learn to be storytellers through recording, editing, and delivery of student produced audio/video and web-based content. They gain knowledge about entertainment media through the study of history, genres, authorship, and distribution in order to understand the production and business of entertainment media.

MINOR REQUIREMENTS
Total for CME Minor 18 Hours

CME 109 Fundamentals of Videography and Video Editing

CME 111 Introduction to Creative Media and Entertainment

CME 211 Authorship in Film and Television

WDD 219 Design for the World Wide Web

Choose two from the following list:

WDD 108 Multimedia Graphics

MI 201 Audio Production

CME 209 Basic Studio Production

WDD 306 Multimedia Design and Production

CME 309 Documentary Production

CME 311 Genres in Film and Television

CME 315 Post-production Techniques

CME 390 Seminar in Creative Media and Entertainment

CME 409 Narrative Production

CME 411 Entertainment Criticism

Experiential Learning

“The Olympics have always been something I’ve been really interested in.”

Emma Bronsteader, a junior Sports Media and Creative Media and Entertainment double-major, completed her second internship with the Olympics this past February. Assuming that she would have minimal involvement and would just be “running to get people coffee,” Emma was shocked with the responsibility she had as an intern. Thrown into a group of four production assistants, she primarily worked to find and catalog shots of athletes to be used in different parts of the broadcast.

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