Summer Springboard

Digital Advertising

ACADEMIC COURSE

EXPLORE NARRATIVE STRATEGIES IN CONTEMPORARY DIGITAL MEDIA

Course Highlights

  • Explore digital PR and advertising storytelling through a wide range of media formats including video commercials, content marketing, influencer campaigns, and social media ads.
  • Understand how brands compete for consumer attention in today’s crowded media landscape
  • Design and produce a strategic communications campaign, including a video commercial and social media content.

  • Acquire critical media literacy by learning higher-level thinking as both creators and consumers of media messages.

Summer Springboard

Digital Advertising

Course Overview

Are you interested in the impact and design of digital public relations and advertising storytelling? From video commercials, content marketing, social media advertising, and influencer marketing to billboards and sponsorships — advertising and public relations messages are everywhere! This course is designed to provide students with an understanding about the marketplace of attention and create effective narratives of their own creation. Students will be exposed to higher-level thinking as media consumers and have the opportunity to test their theories by designing and producing a strategic communications campaign, a video commercial, and social media content for a real client.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Outcome #1

Explore Branding Psychology theories and concepts of influence and building a persona

Outcome #2

Develop Effective Visual Storytelling skills using the principles of visual design, character development, tone, coherence, and messaging as told through media such as graphic design, photography, video, and audio production

Outcome #3

Discover the role of Campaign Channels and Tracking in broadcast, direct, and socially orchestrated through marketing communications campaigns

Outcome #4

Learn from industry professionals and visit digital advertising businesses in the area.

Summer Springboard

Digital Advertising

Courses by Campus

DIGITAL ADVERTISING

Cal Poly SLO

San Luis Obispo, California