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Our MissionRockport College is a small conservatory for the world?s imagemakers and storytellers, where each student is free to search for their own inner voice while working to master their craft. It is our mission at Rockport College to nurture, lead, encourage, inspire and challenge today and tomorrow?s photographers and filmmakers artists as they explore and discover their personal aesthetic along with their life?s mission. The information in this publication will, hopefully, help you along your path. Goals and Objectives
To provide emerging creative professionals of diverse ages and educational backgrounds, and from a world-wide constituency, a focused educational and career enhancing experience distinguished by excellence in craftsmanship, creativity and innovative thinking, and intuition. Pursuing Your CareerFor three decades, The Workshops and now Rockport College, have been advising and helping creative professionals discover their creative potential, learn new skills, develop their talents and advance their careers. We are one of the world's leading centers for career advancement in film, television, and photography. This publication contains information to help you select a course of study that will fulfill your goals and help guide you to achieve success in your professional career as well as your personal work. New ImagemakersIn recent years, we at Rockport College have come to realize there is a new definition for the term "imagemaker". Today, an imagemaker can be a painter, photographer, digital artist, illustrator, filmmaker, cinematographer, scriptwriter, actor, composer, editor, producer or publisher; all serve the same basic function within society. Some stories are better told as novels, some as plays or films, some as a magazine spread, a slide show or multimedia, or as an interactive CD or a web site. Today the technology which creates pictures and broadcasts the stories has blurred the distinctions between the professions - photographers become film directors, painters use the computer, and writers are called on to add drama to an interactive CD. What remains constant is the artist's basic sensitivity of eye and ear, the creative drive to explore, the ability to look inward for new images, to speak the truth and write the new myths about our society. Tomorrow's imagemakers need to be familiar with more than the latest technology - they will have to be grounded in the basic skills and visual concerns as were the Renaissance painters. A cinematographer needs to know the work of the painters of the Hudson River School; all photographers must master basic composition, perspective and color as if they were to become painters; a film director needs to understand how a camera isolates and focuses the audience's attention. Digital artists must also learn what every other visual artist has learned, for the digital workstation is now an important tool used in the imagemaking process, but only a tool. The world needs creative, innovative minds, skilled artists who are not trapped by technology, but instead released by it. Artists need to be free to articulate stories, rewrite and interpret the myths of their time, create the films, television programs, text books and interactive CDs that our societies need in order to see where they have been and where they may be going. Rockport College stands at the center of this new era, uniquely positioned with its history in traditional photography and filmmaking and a future that embraces the pathways the new technologies provide. It is our responsibility to lead the way, to develop new teaching methodologies, and to wed the new technology with the traditional processes, methods and concerns of the master imagemakers and storytellers of the past. Career OptionsThere are many ways you can advance your career. There are longer summer courses as well as one-year (30-week) programs beginning each fall to help you on a new career path. Rockport College offers two degree programs in photography and film & video. The Workshops offer many one-and two-week summer workshops to help you explore your creative potential as an artist. You can explore the more than 200 short summer workshops we offer on our web site at www.theworkshops.com. You can also see samples of student photography and film & video clips in the galleries section of this web site. We can also provide advice on the phone if you call toll free at 877.577.7700. Here are suggestions for how to conduct research into the possibilities of your attending Rockport College: Ask a Question: E-mail your questions to us at info@rockportcollege.edu. Phone Advice: Unsure as to what program or courses to take?
Need help deciding what to do next? Call toll-free at 1-800-963-8739
x357 and speak with the Director of Admissions or email admissions@rockportcollege.edu Career Interviews: Come to Rockport for an interview and a portfolio review with a faculty member. Interviews are available any day except Sunday. Call to make an appointment. Bring a portfolio or selection of your photographs, writings, CD, DVD, or VHS NTSC tape. Call the Admissions office to arrange an interview and campus tour. Career & Portfolio Weekend: Come to our Open Houses or weekend Career Workshops, scheduled throughout the fall and spring. We will help you understand your career and educational options and show you the campus. A faculty member will review your portfolio and help you define your Next Step.
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