Brooks Institute

Innovative Film, and Graphic Design Training, along with Film and Video Production program began in the mid 1950's at Brooks Institute as an out branching of photography training. Brooks' students have the same opportunity to master the art and craft of moviemaking, as well as using the same hands-on-approach to teaching and learning.

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Viewed by those in the industry as one of the field's best kept secrets, this program has a long history of graduating some of the best people in the field: Isidore Mankofsky, Cinematography for The Muppet Movie and Somewhere in Time; Dominick Palmer, Cinematography on the TV series M*A*S*H; Robert Legato, Academy Award winner for Best Effects (Digital Domain) on the movie Titanic, Visual Effects Supervisor for The Aviator; and the most recent graduate, Boris Undorf, Best Cinematography at New York's VisionFest '04' Festival for Sonata.

Due to changes and requirements in the new media, the Graphic Design program has changed at Brooks. Broad-based skills and adaptability to achieve success in a rapidly changing field where art and technology have merged together in today's graphic designers and multimedia practitioner. Brooks supplied the occasion for the used in sight to participate in purchase understanding and propriety in a diversity of system- multimedia- so that be prosperous.

GRAPHIC DESIGN PROGRAM

Graphic designs are all around you, including on the box of your favorite cereal, designs on your snowboard, or the graphic logo that appears on your tennis shoes. Graphic Design today includes not only the traditional careers in the field of Graphic Design but also the newer career paths in areas often referred to as New Media. Matching text and pictures to identify, to sell, or to move an audience is a discipline older than history and newer than today's headlines.

The Bachelor of Arts Degree is an accelerated program that can be completed in a minimum of three years. Not only did computers replace the typewriter, they replaced the pencil too. The computer is described in this course as a mechanical illustration tool. Students have the opportunity to use vector-based graphic and ancillary software programs to create charts, logos and electronic illustrations. Emphasis will be laid on prepress requirements, which will include intermediate concepts for dimensional graphics, as related to prepress considerations. This class will ready students for a career in electronic or printed media.