1. art and entertainment
2. movies
3. film festivals and awards

Creative Media Taster Day
Wednesday May 6th 3-6pm
Carrolls Building, DKIT Campus
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Online via Google Hangout/YouTube
Creative Media at Dundalk Institute of Technology is hosting a
Taster Day from 3-6pm on Wednesday May 6th 2015.
This is a Taster Day with a difference as prospective students will
either be able to either visit the Carrolls building on the DKIT
campus to see the high-end digital media facilities and meet with
staff and students for a chat about the many programmes we offer
OR they will be able to join us live from their homes/schools/mobile
devices as we broadcast from our HD TV Studio on Google
Hangout/YouTube.
The Google Hangout will feature staff & students from across the
multitude of Creative Media programmes we offer, along with
student portfolio work. To tune in online, simply search for CMDKIT
or DKIT TV Studio on YouTube on Wednesday May 6th from 3pm.
Prospective students can also use the #cmdkit hashtag on Twitter
to tweet questions into the Studio to our students and staff.
Creative Media in DKIT has more than doubled in size in the last 10
years, growing from having 143 students in 04/05 to 318 students
in 14/15. The current suite of programmes offer in the Creative
Media area is:
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MA by Research (Creative Media)
BA (Hons) in Communications in Creative Media – Level 8, 4 years;
BA (Hons) in Film & Television Production – Level 8, 4 years;
BSc (Hons) in Multimedia Web Development – Level 8, 4 years;
BA in Theatre & Film Practice – Level 7, 3 years;
BA in Media Arts & Technologies – Level 7, 3 years;
BA (Hons) in Video & Film Production – Level 8, 1 year add-on;
BA (Hons) in Communications in Creative Multimedia – Level 8, 1 year
add-on
Certificate in 2D/3D Digital Animation Production – 1 year (part-time);
Certificate in 3D for Games – 1 year (part-time);
Certificate in Digital Video Post-Production – 1 year (part-time);
Certificate in Writing for Transmedia -1 year (part-time).
See https://www.dkit.ie/creative-media/courses
Creative Media in DKIT is based in the newly renovated Carrolls
building on the DKIT Campus and the world-class facilities include a
full HD TV Studio, a screening room, multiple edit suites, a video
editing lab, multimedia labs, a radio studio, a dark room, an art
studio & equipment borrowing office, amongst others. Lecturers are
highly active industry practitioners and published researchers and
remain up-to-date with all current Creative Media trends and
technologies.
Students are trained on key software packages used in the Creative
Media Industries. Creative Media at DKIT boasts an Adobe Site
License and is an Avid Educational partner – therefore, students can
choose to also sit the Avid Media Composer & Pro-Tools User
Certification Exams while undertaking their programme.
Work created by students from Creative Media has been screened
and exhibited at festivals both in Ireland and abroad, including the
Celtic Media Festival, Galway Film Fleadh, Belfast Film Festival,
Fastnet Short Film Festival, Cinemagic Film Festival, Guth Gafa
International Documentary Film Festival, International Sci-Fi festival
(Arizona, USA), Kerry Film Festival, Clones Film Festival, Darklight
Digital Festival, Maribor Film Festival (Slovenia), Waterford Film
Festival, Newry Film Festival, Fingal Film Festival, Best in Show, LIT
Film Festival, National Student Film Festival, National Student Media
Awards (Smedias), Underground Film Festival and Best in Show
(Digital Hub).
Each year, Creative Media at DKIT host the Annual John Moore Film
Award, which is given to the best short fiction film created by 3rd/4th
year film students and is chosen by Dundalk native & Hollywood
Director John Moore.
The Creative Media Taster Day takes place the day after the CAO
reopens to allow students to use its Change of Mind facility. This
FREE facility is open from 12 noon on 5th May 2015 to 5.15pm on
July 1st 2015 at www.cao.ie or alternatively by using the Change
of Mind Form, which is posted to all CAO applicants in May.
For further information, please follow us on Facebook (Creative
Media DKIT) or Twitter (@cmdkit) and also check out
www.dkit.ie/creative-media
We look forward to welcoming you either physically or virtually at
our Creative Media Taster Day on Wednesday May 6th from 3pm6pm!