Why students choose Diploma course in Visual Communication
Are you wondering why students after their school or college, join a Diploma course in Visual Communication course to enter the Entertainment and Media industry?
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Today’s we’ll see the reasons behind every student choosing Diploma course in Visual Communication and what are the career prospects.
Despite many academic institutions started providing free online courses, distance learning, Bachelors/Masters degree in Visual Communication, there are few courses that encapsulate the forward-thinking curriculum with effective hands-on training. Since it’s a professional course, it is highly crucial to provide the latest technical aspects and syllabus to students, followed by giving them proper career guidance.
In Chennai (the fourth largest city in India), where the famous Loyola College and Stella Maris College offers Bachelors (2 years) and Masters (3 years) degree in Visual Communication for Men and Women separately. Also, we have one academic institution which provides a 6-month Diploma course in Visual Communication for aspiring students with an advanced level of the syllabus and more practical sessions.
Visualite Academy offers a 6-month Diploma course in Visual Communication for students to learn the sought-after skills and professional traits. Our Visual Communication (Viscom) students have been placed in many projects after completing the course and working under leading directors and cinematographers.
We have two branches in Chennai, namely, Anna Nagar and Adyar. We conduct classes on short-term/part-time/full-time basis on either weekdays or weekends for students and working professionals.
What is Visual Communication?
Visual communication carries a wide range of scope that includes drawing, graphic design, illustration, advertising, animation, color and much more. Thus, it is widening its scope to every nook and corner of the world. It gives you a platform to showcase your creativity and talents, where you can impossible to possible through imagination.
It’s a multi-disciplinary course, where students learn from drawing, writing, computer design, and animation to photography, videography, editing, and cinematography. Thus, one should possess visual literacy, aesthetic sense; persuasion techniques, research and information modeling to do creative thinking at the same time engage the audience.
How a Diploma course is more efficient than a degree?
In our diploma course, we take you to guest lectures by industry experts, who are leading artists and technicians in the filmmaking industry. They will discuss with you the current market trend and style which gives a delighting experience to the audience. They will share their real-time experiences and interesting anecdotes and take you a tour to all practical difficulties facing on spot.
We take students to field trips in and around the city, to understand the prop settings, camera, flash, and shooting. We allow students to work with practitioners, such as photographers, videographers, editors, actors, models, directors, and cinematographers. This gives them a huge opportunity to interact with professionals, and build a strong foundation before they kick-start their career. It helps them improve networking at the same time exposure to highly-skilled professionals. This 6 months program, gives them a long period to create a good rapport with those professionals and get to know their work culture.
Apart from the above, we conduct regular workshops, projects, and assignments to students, train them both academically and professionally.
Course Syllabus:
Visualite Academy constantly updates its syllabus in-line with current technology updates. We provide students all essential topics and technical know-how in our curriculum.
Module 1: Introduction to Visual Communication; Drawing; Graphic Design; Basic Photography
This module introduces one to the basic concepts of visual communication, basic terms and its types. This includes other skills like drawing, photography and its tools like camera, colors, lighting, etc.
Module 2: Advertising; Videography; Script Writing and Direction; Multi-media
This module takes one on a tour on Advertisement and its background. How an advertisement is taken, the necessary things to be remembered and so on, followed by script writing and direction, which gives an overview about direction and its challenges.
Module 3: Video editing; Audiography; Animation
This module allows students to study about editing, its tools and techniques followed by the basics in animation, and how to add creative touch in every work. Finally comes audiography, where the sound department of a film works, this includes recording, editing, mixing and sound design.
Module 4: Adverting Photography; Film making; Photo Journalism
This module gives a complete understanding on film-making, its procedures and challenges. Photo Journalism covers the basic concepts, various advantages in visual media industry and other photography concepts related to journalism.
Our Teaching Method:
Our teaching style is unique and effective. We provide you the best tutors in the profession; they impart you with the necessary technical skills and business traits. We conduct 100+ hands-on sessions, plus prompt career placement support. We teach you right from the scratch, intermediate and advanced level of concepts in visual communication. We give you our professional DSLR camera for practice and experiment.
Our training program includes a commercial portfolio for employment purpose. We will be there as beacon lights to give right direction and make sure you complete the project with full vigor.
Career Prospects:
Diploma in Visual Communication program offers you a variety of career opportunities ranging from Journalism, Animation and Graphic artists to Film Production, Advertising, and Industrial design. Unlike other courses like engineering or arts and science, Visual Communication has a wide spectrum.
Almost every company requires a certain set of designers to work for them. Students pursuing visual communication are having an advantage of a wide range of choices with respect to their careers. They can work with a company or work for a company (freelancer).
The biggest advantage of pursuing a diploma course in visual communication is that one could get a large number of jobs in journalism, photography, or closely working with websites, stores, advertising, commodity design, etc.
Some of the popular jobs are given below:
Cinematographer
Photographer
Visualizer
Filmmaker & Film Director
Photojournalist
Art/Creative Director
Web Designer
Marketing Director