This course is for students who want to strengthen their creative storytelling and digital media skills through work grounded in real places. You will use photography, video, audio, text, and interactive mapping to create original stories about Maine’s landscapes and communities.

Across three projects, you will practice noticing what makes a place meaningful, capturing strong media, shaping a clear narrative, and combining different media into engaging digital stories. Along the way, you will build practical skills in photography, video production, editing, mapping, and digital publishing while learning how stories can reveal connections among people, culture, history, and the living environment.

The goal is to move beyond simply documenting a place and learn how to make audiences see it differently, understand why it matters, and recognize the possibilities within it.