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Welcome to Flashpoint, The Academy of Media Arts and Sciences.
Flashpoint is a brand new, bleeding-edge Digital Media Arts College, unlike any other college in Chicago.
With classes beginning in September 2007, Flashpoint will offer two-year programs in Game Development, Film, Computer Animation, and Recording Arts. Here are a few reasons why Flashpoint is different:
- At Flashpoint we teach the concept of workflow—meaning our students will learn what it takes to complete a project from conception through post-production. We teach workflow because it is the type of experience the entertainment and business industries want and demand.
- This translates to students spending half of their school day working in their given discipline, and the remainder of their day working closely with the other departments on a school-wide, yearlong production.
- This yearlong production takes place at Flashpoint's state-of-the-art 32,000 sq ft production complex. Two weeks a month the facility—which features multiple soundstages, Avid suites, graphics bays and mixing rooms—is used for school projects.
- The other two weeks, Flashpoint's production complex is a working facility. Real productions take place at which select students will intern. Exposure to the industry and on-the-job training begins year one.
- This unique method teaches students professional conduct and problem-solving skills, and makes them more commercially viable upon graduation. Simultaneously, Flashpoint has a dedicated staff working directly with employers on job placement.
- To accomplish these goals, students are expected to attend 40-hour class weeks, taught in pods of 24 students. This equates to an additional 1000 hours of intimate class time, per year, when compared to a traditional four-year college.
- Flashpoint’s intensive approach exposes students to real-world equipment and software, real-world working conditions, and real-world timeframes. All in an effort to make sure students are confident, prepared and well suited for a real-world profession.
Discover the college where a digital dream becomes a direction in life—Flashpoint, The Academy of Media Arts and Sciences.
