Media Production · Sacramento Adventist Academy
Students learn to shoot, edit, design, and publish — photography, video, design, and the school's own websites, all student-made.
Classes
Photographing school events. Cutting video features. Designing layouts. Building portfolio sites from scratch. Every project ships to a real audience.
Exposure, composition, light, and editing. Students shoot real school events and build a portfolio of their strongest frames.
View the class →Video features, design, and layout. Students rotate through every role — shooter, editor, designer, writer.
See the class →An early start in grades 6–8: picking up a camera, telling a story in pictures, and learning that a good photo is made, not taken.
Explore the courses →Student Work
Event coverage, yearbook pages, short video features, and personal portfolio sites — the real output of a year in the program.
Every high-schooler publishes their own portfolio site, and the program's best event and studio work lands here.
Browse the portfolio sites →Middle-schoolers learn the craft with step-by-step FilmCraft and CapCut courses, then upload their own videos to a watch page — all made by students, no login required.
Watch middle-school videos →
How We Work
A missed shot — and the work of figuring out why — teaches more than an hour of explaining shutter speed.
— The media program staff
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Interested in the media classes, or want to send a student our way? Reach out — we're happy to show you what a year of real work looks like.
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