This will be supplemented with comprehensive training in communications, content creation for new media, web programming, app development, and UI/UX. According to him, the cornerstone is storytelling. It’s one of a multitude of approaches that Fajardo and other BCIT faculty plans to employ in the new diploma program to provide a rich, immersive education in new media design and web development. And with the next frame that you stop, you have a drone taking that picture. Then you bring that camera up out of the water. You have a camera going underwater to capture that in a really cool frame. “Now, you have this water full of fish dying with blood in the water. “Picture this-we have salmon spawning in North Vancouver in a river,” Fajardo tells the Straight by phone from his office. The head of BCIT’s New Media Design and Web Development program is hoping to incorporate this technology into a new two-year diploma program that will be airborne next April. These days, Edward Fajardo is spending a fair amount of time testing drones with cameras. (This story is sponsored by BCIT Business.)
